AshTrees wrote:
Hans Asperger identified a subgroup he dubbed, "autistic malice", small minority of children who acted malicously, sometimes enjoying doing so.
Although, you get malicous people in all group types.
Sorry, I just saw your posting now.
There is a study about it:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22492041
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Distinct cortical correlates of autistic versus antisocial traits in a longitudinal sample of typically developing youth.
[...] Using assessments of both subclinical autistic and subclinical antisocial traits within a large longitudinal sample of typically developing youth, we demonstrate dissociable neuroanatomic correlations that parallel those found in the frank clinical disorders of autism (e.g., superior temporal cortex) and antisociality (e.g., anterior prefrontal cortex). Moreover, these correlations appear to be established in early childhood and remain fixed into early adulthood. These results support the dimensional view of psychopathology and provide neural signatures that can serve as informative endophenotypes for future genetic studies."
But like you've pointed out, this overlapp is not very high.
But it's a lot higher especially in ADHD though.
... also Michael Fitzgerald writes about this overlapp in his book:
Autism and Creativity: Is There a Link between Autism in Men and Exceptional Ability?
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