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and other abilities that are more sequestered, more focused on females.
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Social abilities, he argues, tend to be more female than male.
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So, the way Baron puts it, provocatively,
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is to be a man is to suffer from a very mild form of autism .
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The idea is then that
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autistic individuals suffer from what he calls extreme male brains,
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and as such,
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it stands to reason that they'd be more sampled
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from the male population than the female population.
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That's such an interesting issue,
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that again, when we return to talk about sex differences
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we'll look at that in a little bit more detail