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[quote=Anonymous]It's silly to claim that all neurodiversity is good. True, a single dose of cycle cell anemia offers some protection against malaria, but there is little to be said for Tay-Sachs Disease. There is little to be said for ASD either. My son has ASD and I don't see what good it does him. Some say that those with ASD tend to have higher IQs. Many of my fellow stutterers make the same claim. The claim is based upon a flawed test conducted years ago at the University of Iowa which showed that the test subjects were in the top 10% of the IQ spectrum. But that was because EVERYBODY at the University of Iowa was in the top 10% of the spectrum, just as they are at most universities. In actual fact, unbiased tests show that our mean IQ is to the left of the general population. So there is little to recommend the genes which cause stuttering to run in families either. Neurodiversity can be great, but not invariably. [/quote]
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