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TrinaryWorksToo on May 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Autism severity can change substantially during ea...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31215791/

> The Misnomer of 'High Functioning Autism': Intelligence Is an Imprecise Predictor of Functional Abilities at Diagnosis

It has been found previously to not be correlative. Can someone give insight into this discrepency?

cbhl on May 31, 2020 [–]

Presumably "requires further study", but one thing that comes to mind is that the linked study looks at early childhood (ages 3-6) whereas the study you linked considers a wider range of ages (1-18).

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