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[quote=Anonymous]We have high functioning kids on the spectrum and we have had this conversation in our house. For awhile I was really concerned that my HFA child would go to college and meet someone within his limited academic interests and would possibly marry someone with a genetic predisposition to autism. I wondered about two people on the spectrum reproducing. would they produce a child who is severely autistic? Simon Baron-Cohen writes about this in his work on assortative mating, and there are a couple of pieces in Wired magazine about why there is so much autism in Silicon Valley. The assumption is that two parents with autism met while working on a group project coding something, or playing games online or whatever, and they might not have been the best genetic match. This is kind of why there are so many tech guys who are really into eugenics, etc. [/quote]
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