What Do We Actually Know About Autism? | Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen | Ep 562

One of the things we might want to do is lay out the cardinal features of autism. How would you characterize autism?

Autism isn't just a single thing. There are multiple dimensions to autism,

multiple factors. The fact that it's a multi-dimensional disorder, risks obscuring its central

features. If we just focus on the things that they have challenges with, it's like a deficit model. If we recognize that

brains develop differently and that some brains focus more on systems than they