Oh, and the author of the original wince-inducing article has written the second part...

[conuly]

In which she describes Rain Man as a movie about a man with Asperger's. No, Rain Man was about somebody diagnosed as HFA. Whether or not this distinction is valid is an exercise left up to the reader, but please, let's stop saying "hey, they can talk, they must be aspie".

And this article, where the number of autistics with average or above average intelligence (whatever that means) is a paltry 10 - 15%. That can't be right....

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[l33tminion]

Yeah, she did, but she undoubtedly didn't do the study that produced that statistic, and they were probably using different standards, which she failed to point out. It's the sort of thing some journalists are less than careful about.