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The first section is well-written and reliable, because I didn't write it, it's a book excerpt. The rest of the post is more prone to errors and speculations; you can skip it if you're not into that kind of stuff—I read a few books and articles about autism, but I'm definitely not an expert, and I didn't spend a lot of time checking everything I wrote. Please comment if anything seems wrong (or dumb, or offensive, etc.) so I can fix it. There are various theories of the root cause of autism in the brain. I'll mention a few as I go. But I'll start right in with the positive case for the theory I like: The Intense World Theory of Autism. The Intense World Theory of Autism dates to this 2007 article. I first heard about it from the excellent book The Myth of Mirror Neurons, which devotes a whole chapter to it, excerpted below. Then I read Temple Grandin's The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum and found that she also brought it up, and seemed very enthusiastic about it. I've als

x The Intense World Theory of Autism — LessWrong Autism Neuroscience Psychopathy World Modeling Frontpage 125 The Intense World Theory of Autism by Steven Byrnes 27th Sep 2021 18 min read 40 125 The first section is well-written and reliable, because I didn't write it, it's a book excerpt. The rest of the post is more prone to errors and speculations; you can skip it if you're not into that kind of stuff—I read a few books and articles about autism, but I'm definitely not an expert, and I didn't spend a lot of time checking everything I wrote. Please comment if anything seems wrong (or dumb, o

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