National Risk Register news article + personal risk

Do you think autistic people are less likely to be risk takers than allistic?

An interesting hypothesis and initial investigations would give some weight to this being possible.

For example, NT brains develop a more intuitive connection between risky actions and consequences in the late teens to early 20s typically:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-wide-wide-world-psychology/201506/why-are-teen-brains-designed-risk-taking

Many autists maintain a late teen mental state for an aweful lot longer than this, plus our whole brain development is different, so it seem entirely possible that the two are linked.

I wonder if we could secure funding for a medical study into this...

Do you think autistic people are less likely to be risk takers than allistic?

An interesting hypothesis and initial investigations would give some weight to this being possible.

For example, NT brains develop a more intuitive connection between risky actions and consequences in the late teens to early 20s typically:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-wide-wide-world-psychology/201506/why-are-teen-brains-designed-risk-taking

Many autists maintain a late teen mental state for an aweful lot longer than this, plus our whole brain development is different, so it seem entirely possible that the two are linked.

I wonder if we could secure funding for a medical study into this...