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jenisautistic
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25 Jun 2015, 8:27 pm

Basically that said I am on the autism spectrum but I'm not autistic. I'm not sure exactly why they said this but they said because real autistic people have cognitive impairments and cannot speak or cannot speak well and cannot make eye contact.


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25 Jun 2015, 9:28 pm

I think what they are saying is that you don't have "frank" autism--something like "RainMan" has.

They believe autism, exclusively, is the autism before the 1980s, before Asperger's Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism were conceived.

They are saying that you have a milder disorder which is on the "autistic spectrum," yet is not the Autistic Disorder of the DSM IV.

In other words, if you don't have severe autism, you don't have autism at all--but you are, nevertheless, on the autistic spectrum.

This is not correct.