You Are Babysitting Your Friend's Autistic Child

You are babysitting your friend's autistic child. You have known them all of their life and think of them as part of your own family. While their sometimes unusual behaviour was confusing to you when you were initially getting to know them, as you learned more about Autism you gained a much better understanding of why they behave the way they do. If we could instantly know all the ways in which their brain was different from the average (non-autistic) child, based on prior work discussed in your textbook, which of the following differences would you not expect?

A) differences in -processing related to neural plasticity (e.g.pruning)
B) abnormal cerebellum development
C) abnormal prefrontal cortex development
D) connectivity between hemispheres
E) all of these response options are differences that have been associated with autism