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POPS there is a relationship (genetic or otherwise) between autism and genius "for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. The essential ingredient may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world, from the simply practical and to rethink a subject with originality so as to create in new untrodden ways with all abilities canalised into the one specialty." According to psychologist and autism specialist Dr Tony Attwood, from Griffith University