This is the first candidate-gene association study of AS and of autistic traits.

Having other autistic traits (which is common with dyspraxia and related conditions) may also contribute to sensory-induced panic attacks.

As with many other autistic traits, if speech continues to develop more normally, this pronoun reversal might be expected to disappear.

Fourth, both mothers and fathers of children with autism score above average on a questionnaire that measures how many autistic traits an individual has.

He displayed autistic traits at an early age, and eventually developed an interest in public policy.

Another 2005 study focused on sub-threshold autistic traits in the general population.

This study produced findings that suggested that "individual differences in autistic traits are substantially genetically independent of intellectual functioning."

Limited genetic covariance between autistic traits and intelligence: Findings from a longitudinal twin study.

But the test involved looking for autistic traits among transgender individuals.

The authors cited a score of 32 or more as indicating "clinically significant levels of autistic traits".