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ocdgirl123
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08 Mar 2012, 8:49 pm

never mind.



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08 Mar 2012, 8:58 pm

Your question assumes that "intelligence" is a real thing to be measured...

You can measure individual skills; you can even estimate a person's capacity to learn in one area or another; but a global quality like "intelligence" loses its meaning, especially when you're talking about people on the autism spectrum.


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08 Mar 2012, 9:07 pm

Intelligence, like empathy, assumes that many separate skills are the same thing, but this is obviously not the case when looking at autistic people.


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08 Mar 2012, 9:49 pm

as per the OP's request.


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