• chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This doesn’t jive with the diagnostic criteria for autism. You have to have life long social deficits and restrictive, repetitive behaviors in order to be considered autistic. If everyone met that criteria, there wouldn’t be a need to distinguish autistic individuals from allistic ones. You might identify with some of the individual symptoms of autism, but that doesn’t make you autistic.