For Ken: Autistic Women (Male brained? & Testosterone).

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A Question of Breeding

Rod Little

These days, autism tends to be understood as an extreme form of the

male brain (known as Type S), a brain hard-wired for understanding

and building systems, as opposed to the female brain (Type E), which

has a more pronounced capacity for empathy, to put it simply. Of

course, not all women possess Type E nor all men Type S, but

whatever: afflictions from within the autistic spectrum are merely an

exaggerated version, if you like, of those traits we familiarly

recognise in men. It is no coincidence that Asperger's was formerly

known as `Engineer's Disease'; a study by Simon Baron-Cohen at the

Cambridge University Autism Research Centre in the mid-1990s found

that the parents of children with autism or Asperger's were twice as

likely to work in the area of engineering. As one expert puts it: the

very genes which lead to autism also lead to those engineering

skills.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1042842.cms

explained. " More testosterone in the womb predicts more

physical aggression in men. "

Alternatively, both testosterone exposure and finger length may be

influenced by a " deeper third variable " , Hurd noted. Regardless, the

study shows that " events in the womb can have subtle effects on kids

personality " .

This is not the first study to link the ratio between a man's second

and fourth fingers to his personality, noted. Previous reports

have found that men with smaller ratios — meaning, their second

finger is much smaller than their fourth — tend to do better in

sports, and are perceived as more dominant and masculine by women.

However, other research has shown that men with smaller second-to-

fourth finger ratios are at higher risk of autism and immune

deficiency.

To investigate how finger ratios match up with physical aggression,

and Hurd measured the finger ratios in 298 psychology

students.

The researchers found that shorter second-to-fourth finger ratios

predicted proneness to physical aggression, but not other types of

aggression, and only in men, not in women.

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> > brained? OR is it that it differs evenly?

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> > > I think that I am caught in-between.

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