Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums General Discussion "Child Genius and Autism Connected"

I barely skimmed this and it looked sort of problematic but I thought it might be of interest:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/252637.php

The author shouldn't be writing on such topics, but it's still interesting. Thank you.

Hmmm.... Why should she not be writing on such topics??

Lack of domain knowledge and journalistic expertise.

The articles on this service are often bad.

I wonder (ok, I don't really) why these findings on 8! subjects leads to the conclusion that they are somehow "overcoming" autism as a medical condition via their gifts rather than a potential discussion regarding how we define autism and how we are creating a medical condition for seeing and engaging with the world differently. There is no crtique here of our definitions of autism or our tools for identifying it, which I think would be more interesting.

Plus the questionable research design makes the whole thing useless anyway, imo.

It would probably be worth reading the actual research article (which I haven't).

A sample size of eight is extremely small.

Thanks to this thread, I now know that there is no reason to read the article because it's apparently worthless.

Thanks, everyone!

Here's the original news release from OSU:
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/chldprod.htm
At least the original didn't swap Genius for Prodigy.

The symptom overlaps between various spectrum type disorders and gifted has bubbled up here many times. The prodigies + working memory isn't new data.

Overall, I'm with you, LNEsMom, questioning how some of these diagnostics are done would be interesting.