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New results published by researchers at the Autism Research Centre (ARC) show both men and women with autism show an extreme of the typical male pattern on the 'Reading the Mind in the Eyes' test.

Autism is diagnosed more often in boys than in girls. Part of the reason might be that girls are more difficult to diagnose.