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 This suggests that autists may generally get on reasonably well with each other, but differences in presentation style, flatter affect, and difficulty expressing expected dominant or submissive social dominance hierarchy based behaviors may cause even very high-functioning autists to be commonly be perceived as 'creepy', 'weird' or, more charitably, eccentric, leading to social exclusion and thus the social deficits the condition is known for.
-=== Mutant vs slow life history strategist ===
-As an instance of a theory that regards autistic traits to be adaptive, Del Giudice and colleagues (2010) argued that high functioning autistic traits (especially systemizing and obsession with details) may be maintained in the gene pool due to their relevance to slow [[life history]] strategies that involve high investment into the offspring.<ref name="Crespi2014">http://www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/crespi/pdfs/171-Crespi2014-See%20Pages%20322-324.pdf</ref> Indeed, Jobe & White (2007) found that autists indeed tend to have longer relationships than neurotypicals (though shorter friendships).<ref name="Crespi2014"></ref> There is, however, a general agreement that low-functioning autism is maladaptive.<ref name="Crespi2014"></ref>
 ==Extreme male brain theory==