Clues that Rimland may have been on to something have been popping up ever since. In 2003, Kathrin Hippler at the University of Vienna undertook a study of the case records of patients diagnosed by Asperger after the war; she found a significantly higher number of fathers working in the technical professions—particularly electrical engineering—than the fathers of a control group. Researchers at the University of Edinburgh discovered in 2015 that genes associated with autism are also associated with higher levels of cognitive ability—particularly problem-solving tasks requiring nonverbal,
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