Autistic brains are more capable of conceiving creating ideas than the normal ones. Yes, this is what UK researchers have claimed after studying results of 312-people online survey. The questions were also meant to figure out if the participants had some traits of the autism even if there was no formal declaration of the disorder.

In order to test the creativity of the participants, the researchers sought interpretations of images that were supposed to have a deeper meaning than they seemed.

They also asked the participants to list out minimum uses for simple objects like a brick or a paper clip in a minute.

Here are the results: people, who said that they had autistic traits and those who suffered from autism, were the ones couldn’t come with as many options as normal people, but their responses were certainly more interesting than people with normal brains.

“We think that perhaps the people with autistic traits use more effortful methods to produce answers to divergent thinking tasks (not based on obvious word associations or common uses for similar items) and therefore come up with fewer but better responses”, said Lead author Dr. Catherine Best of the University of Stirling in the UK wrote in an email to Reuters Health.

Jolanta Lasota, chief executive of UK charity Ambitious about Autism, says what the study has depicted is the fact that autistic people see the world in a different way, despite having specific interests and struggle with abstract concepts.