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Darth Paul wrote: LiveandSound wrote: Liking weapons and being stupidly genre-blind? It's more akin to being really really intelligent around a certain base subject at the trade of being socially awkward.

2 things: 1) Aspergers is a form of socail awkwardness, and 2) while certain kinds of autism (most notably Aspergers) can be linked with higher intellegence, and those of higher IQs are likely to have it, someone who has aspergers doesn't neccessarily always have a higher IQ (like ADHD and Aspergers, where one is there is often the other, but they don't HAVE to be together)

Also, RozenQueen, the number of people on the Autism spectrum in the US is aroudn 4%, and in most of 1st-world europe it is aroudn 3.5% (I think), but you also have to remember that that's only the amount that have been confirmed via cencus's and medical reports. Therefore, you are not accounting for the number of autistic people who haven't been reported to a public source (most notably medical parties and governments), at which point it goes up by, I'd estimate around 1-3%.