The Intense World Theory proposes that core elementary cognitive consequences in any child on the autistic spectrum are hyper-perception, hyper-attention, hyper-memory, and hyper-emotionality.

Is autism genetic? Research tells us that autism tends to run in families, and a meta-analysis of 7 twin studies claim that 60 to 90% of the risk for autism comes from your genome. If you have a child with autism, you are more likely to have another autistic child.