Boys with autism have smaller heads, are shorter and weigh less at birth than their typical peers do. Children with autism are smaller in utero, but catch up and surpass typical children in height and head size between birth and age 3. The is among the first to link autism to rapid skeletal growth

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Boys with autism have smaller heads, are shorter and weigh less at birth than their typical peers do. Children with autism are smaller in utero, but catch up and surpass typical children in height and head size between birth and age 3. The is among the first to link autism to rapid skeletal growth