Aspie_Chav wrote:
missykrissy wrote:
1/3 of people diagnosed with fragile x are autistic and there are a couple of other very similar disorders where autism and being taller than average are both very common. these conditions can also be misdiagnosed as autism because many of the symptoms are the same.
I don't know what fragile x is but I assume that we do not know why it is common on AS. But environmental factors we can explain. My me try to expain by over exaggeration.
Lets say we introduce 30 tall 6ft 5 and rich aspies and 5 ft short poor aspies to a country that has no aspies at all. What do you think the future generation of aspies would be like. Do you think there would be the same ratio of short poor aspie as tall and rich ones? Do you think the woman native preferance for tall rich men would have an influence on aspies? would equal amound of aspies from the two groups have children on average. Would some native women believe that the taller richer as an advantage over their native men. Would they believe the same for poorer shorter aspies.
fragile x is a chromisone disorder that causes the x chromosone to 'break' and have repeats of specific genomes. one of the side effects is abnormal neurological development which is where the autism comes in.
either way i see what you mean but the same is true for all men in general not just for aspie men. the short men will still get to breed and have lots of babies. they will just not get the best looking girls. ugly girls need mates too. (: the tall ones will have more genetically variable children though because they will probably have different women that have their babies while the short ones will have a hard time finding multiple partners and stick with what they can get.