{"id":6290,"date":"2012-09-29T23:56:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2012-09-29T23:56:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T14:56:07","slug":"autismaspergers-clusters-as-a-fiction-component","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/autismaspergers-clusters-as-a-fiction-component\/","title":{"rendered":"Autism\/Asperger&#039;s Clusters as a Fiction Component"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the leading proponent of assortative mating, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.babble.com\/strollerderby\/2011\/08\/20\/a-new-theory-contributes-the-rise-of-autism-to-how-people-marry\/#more-85629\">Simon Baron-Cohen<\/a>, director of Cambridge University&#8217;s Autism Research Center (and cousin to the comedian Sasha Baron-Cohen), autism tends to run in families. While that\u2019s not news \u2014 it&#8217;s been estimated that a family with one autistic child has a 1 in 20 risk of having a second autistic child \u2014 Baron-Cohen has expanded upon that theory to posit entire communities of people with some tendency toward autism or Asperger\u2019s syndrome, a related disorder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/assortative-mating-blame-rise-autism-152400736.html\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/assortative-mating-blame-rise-autism-152400736.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2011\/08\/19\/could-the-way-we-mate-and-marry-boost-rates-of-autism\/\">http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2011\/08\/19\/could-the-way-we-mate-and-marry-boost-rates-of-autism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6290\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6290\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the leading proponent of assortative mating, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.babble.com\/strollerderby\/2011\/08\/20\/a-new-theory-contributes-the-rise-of-autism-to-how-people-marry\/#more-85629\">Simon Baron-Cohen<\/a>, director of Cambridge University&#8217;s Autism Research Center (and cousin to the comedian Sasha Baron-Cohen), autism tends to run in families. While that\u2019s not news \u2014 it&#8217;s been estimated that a family with one autistic child has a 1 in 20 risk of having a second autistic child \u2014 Baron-Cohen has expanded upon that theory to posit entire communities of people with some tendency toward autism or Asperger\u2019s syndrome, a related disorder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/assortative-mating-blame-rise-autism-152400736.html\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/assortative-mating-blame-rise-autism-152400736.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2011\/08\/19\/could-the-way-we-mate-and-marry-boost-rates-of-autism\/\">http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2011\/08\/19\/could-the-way-we-mate-and-marry-boost-rates-of-autism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6290\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"6290\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\"> <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-story-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}