An article in The Spectator claims that new research on autism reveals inherent differences in male and female brains:

The current thesis among those studying autism holds that the condition is simply an extreme example of male behaviour.... Simon Baron-Cohen, at the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, has put forward the "Extreme Male Brain" theory of autism; simply that those abilities typical of the "average" male brain — an ability to systematise, a facility for mechanistic analysis such as mathematics, computer programming and engineering — become, in their extreme form, part of what is now called a spectrum of autism. At the other end of the scale, the extreme female brain would be characterised by an extraordinary ability to empathise but a greatly impaired ability to, as he puts it, systematise. By "systematise" he means an ability to read maps, do mathematical calculations, understand technical systems and so on; all those things which, colloquially, over the years, men have accused women of being hilariously useless at. The trouble is, men may now have the beginnings of scientific proof for what was previously seen as chauvinistic prejudice.

Great. So how does all this help cure autism?

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