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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 18 October 2015 10:04:24AM *  0 points [-]

What?

EDIT: Do you mean the technical meaning or the colloquial meaning? The former aren't that smart in average...

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 18 October 2015 04:43:04PM *  2 points [-]

Autism is a spectrum. Here I mean the ones whose social skills aren't so ban its impossible to meaningfully interact with them.

EDIT: fixed typo.

Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 19 October 2015 06:49:14AM -1 points [-]

And having social skills so bad it's impossible to meaningfully interact with you causes high IQ? What?