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That could make sense, since the difference between my brother and I was similar to what you describe here.

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Ah. My cousin's husband was a wonderfully brilliant physicist, as was their daughter who married a brilliant chemist. I fear that the "spectrum" catchall diagnosis is getting in the way of more helpful research path.

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Yes, and all the "high achieving" parents who don't want to know it was their "defect" that gave their child "autism." You don't catch it, it doesn't happen from what you ate or anything you used, it's how your brain is wired, but never discount the otherwise-unemployables of the Ambulance-Chaser Corps from coming up with some new bullshit to hook the to-rich-to-know-they're-morons parents in for another lawsuit that proves nothing.

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Yup.

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