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Mandy is the cold, rational way I learned to view the world in order to survive. Billy is the fun and joyous inner-world where I like to spend my time. And Grim is the moral mediator between the two. It's really Id, Ego, and Superego to some degree. I haven't thought about that in a long time, but that was purposeful.
Special interest (autism) Special interests are highly focused interests common in autistic people. [1] Autistic art depicting a girl's special interest in cats. Special interests are more intense than typical interests, such as hobbies, [2] and may take up much of a person's free time. A person with a special interest will often hyperfocus on ...
Fragile X syndrome ( FXS) is a genetic disorder characterized by mild-to-moderate intellectual disability. [1] The average IQ in males with FXS is under 55, while about two thirds of affected females are intellectually disabled. [3] [4] Physical features may include a long and narrow face, large ears, flexible fingers, and large testicles. [1]
A 2022 study in the “Children” journal concluded that the true female ratio could be 3 men to every 4 women, and that 80 percent of females remain undiagnosed with autism at the start of ...
Genetic factors may be the most significant cause of autism. Early studies of twins had estimated heritability to be over 90%, meaning that genetics explains over 90% of whether a child will develop autism. [1] This may be an overestimation, as later twin studies estimate the heritability at between 60 and 90%.
37.2 million globally (0.5%) (2015) [9] Named after. Hans Asperger. Asperger syndrome ( AS ), also known as Asperger's syndrome or Asperger's, is a term formerly used to describe a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by significant difficulties in social interaction and nonverbal communication, along with restricted, repetitive patterns ...
2012. Hazel Grace Lancaster Augustus Waters and several other characters. The Fault in our Stars. John Green. The book is about characters with several types of cancer and resulting disabilities including a blind character and one with a prosthetic leg. 2015. Kaz Brekker. Six of Crows. Leigh Bardugo.
Bainbridge–Ropers syndrome was first identified in 2013 and is characterized by failure to thrive, feeding problems, hypotonia, intellectual disabilities, autism, postnatal growth delay, abnormal facial features such as arched eyebrows, anteverted nares, and delays in language acquisition. BRPS is extremely rare worldwide; more than thirty ...