3.#TAB#What what percentage of people with Autism have an average or above average intellect?
Each individual with autism is unique. Many of those on the autism spectrum have exceptional abilities in visual skills, music and academic skills. About 40 percent have average to above average intellectual abilities.Indeed, many persons on the spectrum take deserved pride in their distinctive abilities and âatypicalâ ways of viewing the world. Others with autism have significant disability and are unable to live independently.irst and foremost, we now know that there is no one cause of autism just as there is no one type of autism. Over the last five years, scientists have identified a number of rare gene changes, or mutations, associated with autism.