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90| Autism: The Big Picture – A Conversation With Sir Simon Baron-Cohen

Navigating Neuropsychology

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The Importance of Emotional Empathy in Autism

Autistic people tend to have a brain of type S or extreme type S. People who work in STEM are more likely to have a systemizing brain type. There's a genetic link between your systemizing, how strongly you systemize and how many autistic traits you have. And this is kind of hopefully now a familiar concept that autistic traits run right through the population. We all have some. It's just a matter of degree.

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