55 Quotes by Simon Baron-Cohen


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    Autism typically means a person may not be fully aware of the consequences of their actions, or understand the consequences of their behaviour on others.

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    My theory is that the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy, and that the male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

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    Hundreds of studies of various cultures have proven that, on average, boys play more than girls with constructional toys like Lego and toy cars, and girls play more with dolls.

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    Well, in the general population, we find differences between the typical male and typical female. For example, males seem to be more interested in systems and females seem to be more interested in people and particularly people's emotions.

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    If we think about the autism spectrum as involving a very strong drive to systemize, that can have very positive consequences for the individual and for society. The downside is that when you try to systemize certain parts of the world like people and emotions, those sorts of phenomena are less lawful and harder to systemize.

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    I suspect that among parents or siblings of a person with autism there are higher rates of talents in systemizing.

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    People with psychopathy are very good at reading the minds of their victims. That's probably most clearly seen in deception.

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    If you have a child with autism, and he or she has good intelligence, with no delay in language learning maybe there is an advantage to autism as well? Maybe it gives them a better understanding of mathematics, or science? After all, the essence of science and the essence of autism is to notice patterns that others have not noticed.

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