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And it could be taken as a striking illustration of
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how the social part of your brain
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is distinct from other parts of your brain.
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So, what autism is a disorder that strikes about one in a thousand people,
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mostly boys.
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And the dominant problems concern consist of a lack of social connectedness,
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problems with language, problems dealing with people,
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and more generally,
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a problem of what the psychologist,
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Simon Baron-Cohen has described as "mind blindness."
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In that autistic people show no impairments dealing with the physical world,
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they show no impairments on-- they don't necessarily show any impairments