Extreme Male brain theory!

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(( Good and interesting article, Thank You.

The trouble with "Theories" is that they are just that - a "Theory" - to the majority/masses... until they are made into a LAW. The good thing is, that this article is interesting, and that They (the writers of the article and persons behind it) are taking a good interest in such things. Positive progress is always good...

I cannot say much more than that. I am still mostly off this Forum for just now; but I saw this Thread, and that it had no replies, yet one "Like", and I thought that I should say something to support this Thread. I do not know when I can come back again, though -- but of course, Keep on being yourselves, everyone!  ))

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(( Good and interesting article, Thank You.

The trouble with "Theories" is that they are just that - a "Theory" - to the majority/masses... until they are made into a LAW. The good thing is, that this article is interesting, and that They (the writers of the article and persons behind it) are taking a good interest in such things. Positive progress is always good...

I cannot say much more than that. I am still mostly off this Forum for just now; but I saw this Thread, and that it had no replies, yet one "Like", and I thought that I should say something to support this Thread. I do not know when I can come back again, though -- but of course, Keep on being yourselves, everyone!  ))

Thank you DC for your reply, I hope others have taken the trouble to follow the link and read the content, yes a theory but none the less it helps put across what we on the spectrum know only to well, we do have empathy, but when looked at from a neurotypical context it always appears like the findings say we lack empathy, it doesn’t then go in to describe what it means by its findings,

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“They may miss the cues in someone’s facial expression or vocal intonation about how that person is feeling. Or they may have trouble putting themselves in someone else’s shoes, to imagine their thoughts. But when they are told that someone else is suffering, it upsets them and they are moved to want to help that person.

So autistic people do not lack empathy.

The second misinterpretation is that autistic people are hyper-male. Again, this is not the case. While our latest study shows that autistic people, on average, have a shift towards a masculinised profile of scores on empathy and systemising tests, they are not extreme males in terms of other typical sex differences. For example, they are not extremely aggressive, but tend to be gentle individuals.

So autistic people are not hyper-male in general.”

Sorry to hear you still need more time away, you are missed by me and quite a few others, You often lift my spirits with your replies, 

take care DC and I hope you eventually feel rested enough to join in again.

And I should imagine the other “like” is also missing you a great deal.

Keep being YOU,,,it’s good ()