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Ignoring all of the hyperbole and random accusations.

VampireCoyote posted...

there might not be a normal or typical example of an overall brain but when looking at certain structures for abnormalities you can compare it to a baseline of the majority of healthy brains

That's what I am referring to. For example, they have compared brains between autistic people and random control samples and have not notable differences.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/most-autistic-people-have-normal-brain-anatomy

First off, the ASD group had no differences in overall brain size (intracranial volume). Nor were there any group differences in the volumes of most brain areas; the only significant finding here was an increased ventricle volume in the ASD group, but even this had a small effect size (d = 0.34). Enlarged ventricles is not specific to ASD by any means the same thing has been reported in schizophrenia, dementia, and many other brain disorders.

On the differences, they actually found that smaller sample sizes made their model more accurate it was, showing that there is no actual correlation.

Also again there is no REAL baseline/neurotypical/healthy brain. It's not a simple organ like most others in our body. While structured similarly, we all have differences.