Are adolescents and adults with the diagnosis bigger?

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Washi
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14 Jul 2012, 1:36 pm

Ganondox wrote:
Washi wrote:
It can go either way, there are conditions associated with autism that cause people to be taller AND shorter than average. - I'm 4 ft 8in
http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jun2007/nichd-22.htm
http://www.bu.edu/autism/files/2010/03/ ... et-al1.pdf


What isn't more scattered on spectrum than off sprectrum?


Come again? Do you mean is the discrepancy in height greater amongst those on the spectrum as opposed to the general population? I imagine it is but don't know for sure. The gist of my post was to half agree with the OP that those on the spectrum are often bigger than the general population, but the opposite is also true that they are also often smaller than the general population. Those extremes probably get lost when the all the heights and sizes are averaged together.
Edit: Or was that just a rhetorical question? In which case I don't know.



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14 Jul 2012, 1:59 pm

There is supposed to be a correlation between height and IQ. Not sure if that has anything to do with it.



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14 Jul 2012, 2:46 pm

6'2" and 252lb. Could the discrepancies in size be down to a relatively smaller sample group for ASD to NT?