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The Link Between Autism and Skills such as Engineering, Maths, Physics and Computing

A Reply to Jarrold and Routh, Autism,1998,2 (3):281-9

Sally Wheelwright

University of Cambridge, UK

Simon Baron-Cohen

University of Cambridge, UK

In the first edition of this journal, we published a paper reporting that fathers and grandfathers of children with autism were over-represented in the field of engineering (Baron-Cohen et al., 1997). This result was interpreted as providing supporting evidence for the folk-psychology/folk-physics theory of autism. After carrying out further analyses on the same data, Jarrold and Routh (1998) found that fathers of children with autism were also over-represented in accountancy and science. They suggested that these results could either provide additional support for the folk-psychology/folk-physics theory or be accounted for by an over-representation of professionals amongst the fathers of children with autism. Here we present evidence that engineers are still over-represented among fathers of children with autism, even taking into account the professional bias.

Key Words: domain specificity • folk physics • folk psychology • genetics • parental occupation • phenotype

Autism, Vol. 5, No. 2, 223-227 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/1362361301005002010
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