Comment by FlowersForAlex on Autism And Intelligence: Much More Than You Wanted To Know · 2019-11-18T20:34:36.219Z · LW · GW

There is speculation that people with ASD have on average a lower IQ, but also a much higher variance. This would cause an over-representation of people with ASD among both the lowest and highest IQs, similar to the supposed male IQ variance. Perhaps ironically, ASD has also been dubbed an 'extreme male brain' disorder.