title: Autism: Common, heritable, but not harmful.
abstract: We assert that one of the examples used by Keller & Miller (K&M), namely, autism, is indeed common, and heritable, but we question whether it is harmful. We provide a brief review of cognitive science literature in which autistics perform superiorly to non-autistics in perceptual, reasoning, and comprehension tasks; however, these superiorities are often occluded and are instead described as dysfunctions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.
authors.forename: Morton Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Gernsbacher
authors.affiliation: Pervasive Developmental Disorders Specialized Clinic, University of Montreal, Hopital Riviere-des-Prairies, Montreal QC H1E 1A4, Canada.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dawson
authors.affiliation: Pervasive Developmental Disorders Specialized Clinic, University of Montreal, Hopital Riviere-des-Prairies, Montreal QC H1E 1A4, Canada.
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mottron