What would pure autism look like?

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Pure autism without any co morbid conditions such as mental retardation or ADHD.

There's quite a few people with no comorbids conditions. Probably more with than without, but there are still people out there with just autism.

There's a big difference between whutchamacallit, RETARDATION and being impeded from fielding one's sizable intellect. *Angry*

To answer your question, asking what pure autism looks like is folly, because we're still people. It's what asking what pure happiness, pure grief or pure rage looks like.

I'm with Kajii. I think plenty of people have pure autism. A few of them have written books so you can read them to see what it looks like. Temple Grandin seems like an example. Also Daniel Tamment. He had seizures as a child but doesn't as an adult.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm probably bad as aspies get the good side but the double blade of OCD and and social anxiety, This question is logically hard to understand because it is impossable so far confusing I think it would be a very sad sight though possably an impossablitiy because the socialness anxiety and the hyperness makes autism

An individual with pure autism would have no motivation to do anything, they would not react to their environment as they would be completely detached from it. I mean this in the context of not being able to make sense of any sensory input, and not reacting to it. Such an individual would be about as "alive" as someone who was brain dead.

Sounds like normal AS. I don't know if the language delay is "comorbid". It's often comorbid to the other traits, but maybe part of autism.

I agree.

Also, the word 'pure autism' makes me think of autists rising up and eradicating those with a co-morbid as well as ASD.
But really, it wouldn't exist because everyone is an individual. It's just a diagnosis. If Leo Kanner never lived there wouldn't even be a name for it.

MR in Autism ain't normal MR.

It's a common train of thought nowadays that the more autistic someone is, the "smarter" they actually are, it's just that the mind can't handle the hyper focusing, so they manifest Profound Autism.

"Pure" autism would probably be no social contact at all, and the person is completely cut-off from human connection and has no human relatedness, but they can still function within the realms of their cognitive ability. Those with Profound Autism are close to this in many cases.

I know what it looks like now;
Do you remember on Sponguebob when Squidward tries to out do squilliam by turning the Krusty Krab into an establishment of fne dining and Mr Krabbs is the cook and he is cooking an then they find out its alive. You see it and it is a slime monster, that is what pure autism would look like, a distorted mess