If you took a test for autism, how would you fare? Astonishingly, as many as 1 in 300 of us would "pass", maybe more. And a large number of those would be male scientists, according to Simon Baron-Cohen. A clinical psychologist at Cambridge University, he heads the first team to have come up with a simple test for autism. And he runs a clinic for Asperger's syndrome, a form of the condition. The clinic and the research which shaped the test has helped Baron-Cohen forge a new theory of autism and a fresh approach to it.
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