Current mood:	smart
Entry tags:	asperger's syndrome, mom

Intelligence vs. Social ability
Well, whatever they've done to LJ in my absence hasn't removed my ability to post for free yet. On to the actual update:


My mother sent me the following, which I have obtained permission to share:

"The May 2008 issue of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Bulletin (Vol. 21, No. 2) has a very interesting article about diagnoses on the autistic spectrum arising from genetic (but not usually inherited) causes. My favorite bit was about the introduction of a single mutation into mice, who became less social -- but smarter."

I love the discovery of a unicausal link between increased intelligence and decreased social ability/tendency. It does help one to feel better: "I had to be this way to be smart, so it's okay." (And yes, I just invented the term "unicausal link.")