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30 Sep 2010, 1:22 am

If the oxford english dictionary gave you the job of defining autism, what would your defination be?

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condition disturbing perceptions and relationships: a disturbance in psychological development in which use of language, reaction to stimuli, interpretation of the world, and the formation of relationships are not fully established and follow unusual patterns.

- ORIGIN from Greek autos ‘self’.



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30 Sep 2010, 1:43 am

An alien stranded on Earth



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30 Sep 2010, 2:33 am

The worship of automobiles

Autism is seeing the whole of the world about you including the patterns and the interactions of the surrounding environment without hyper-focusing all your efforts towards what some idiot is wondering about as he scratches his backside.