According to Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the University of Cambridge’s Autism Research Centre, people who work with numbers are more likely to have autistic children. Autism is characterised by both a lack of empathy and a tendency to ‘hyper-systemise’. ‘Hyper-systemising’ is the practice of creating patterns, coupled with the often obsessive desire to understand read more »

 14-year-old Cameron Thompson is considered to be a teenage genius, and for him, academic success is almost certain. However, Cameron sufferer’s from a form of autism known as Asperger’s Syndrome, which though is thought to be very strongly linked with ‘genius’, renders him unable to understand general social conventions. Being a natural genius sounds like read more »