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It is not me, it is plain dumb statistics. Wast majority of cases of ASDs are reported in a male population, while clinical depression in female. Baron-Cohen's
by dschiptsov 14y ago
It is not me, it is plain dumb statistics. Wast majority of cases of ASDs are reported in a male population, while clinical depression in female.
Baron-Cohen's argument sounds solid if you consider that women evolve non-verbal communication skill they use with babies, who cannot talk until of age of 2. All that communication is well-researched and documented. Autistic people have difficulties in communication, and no wonder that they are mostly men.
As of language usage, different cultures, well, tend to use a language differently. Most of world's cultures, by the way, does not believe in an gender equality and tend to name things, as we believe, they are. There are differences between men and women and they aren't just anatomical.)