Are All Cats Autistic?

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I want to know.

I don't think cats have the same type of brain structure to be autistic. There is a train of thought that believes other apes can be Autistic.

According to this, yes.



But my cat doesn't really display any traits that are characteristic of autism, I can say.

I'd like to think so. My cats especially like routine, and if it is broken, they'll think something's amiss. My cat Kiki always asks for treats every morning when I wake up, and Molly would go downstairs whenever my husband and I stay up late to see if we are okay.

My cat's very sociable. She loves being around humans, and she is very vocal. And if you are crying, she comes over to you and literally comforts you by headbutting and sitting right next to you. And if one of us goes on vacation for a week-end or a few days or weeks or whatever, she goes insane. She sits by the window all the time and goes alert every time someone walks by, and when awake she jumps about miawing constantly until the person who was away returns. And if you walk into the room she'll miaw at you as if to say "hello" (unless she's asleep). She loves sitting on people's laps too.

Really, having this cat is like having another human about the house.

Sometimes Better than another human.

I don't know, but all dogs definitely don't have ADHD.

I definitely don't think all dogs have ADHD. One of mine was a real couch potato, not hyper in any way.

I had one cat, Paul, who was very social.

Cats seem to be one of the few animals that are good at making eye contact and having staring contests with humans, so maybe they don't have Asperger's

Also cats are naturally very nimble and agile.

They never seem to have trouble falling asleep, or getting enough sleep.

Autistic people are *supposedly* living in their own world, but cats are very curious and nosy.

And they groom themselves a lot.

My younger cat Mischief is very social and friendly. My older cat Lucky is a bit more reserved, but she has her moments.

Cats are cheeky little buggers whom just like warm places to sleep and to be fed. If they can find a human to accommodate them they will!

I have a little orange fur ball whom keeps trying to move in with me.

Many cats may display what we would classify as ASD traits, so in that reguard you could say that they have Autism.

However, that's making a judgement based on human standards. They are not human, what we would call Neurotypical and Neurodiverse means nothing in the world of cats or any other animal. What is neurotypical for a cat isn't going to be what it is for a human, a dog, or fish. So we can't really hold them to our classifications on this.

Yes, and all dogs have ADHD

Years ago my mum had a cat that would come out of hiding whenever there were guests. The cat (Dennis) was part Siamese so that may explain why he rubbed against visitors' legs and meowed hello at them. He was a very social cat who loved meeting people.

Cats...are just cats. I mean if you compare them to a human I could see thinking they have some autistic traits. But they aren't autistic they are cats. I mean they learn about their humans and interact with them accordingly...you know how sometimes if you have a cat you can start to recognize what their different meows mean, and if they are happy, irrtated, scared. I mean they actually seem to get to understand people and will adjust their behavior to communicate better with humans. Based on that I don't see them as autistic, I mean they might understand us humans better than we understand ourselves.

If anything its like they're scientists and we're their subjects and/or lab rats.

And they are miniature carnivores, which does bring up an interesting observation....some vegans own cats. Well cats eat meat so I do wonder how they justify buying meat to feed to their cat, but think its immoral to eat meat themselves. I have heard of some messed up people that try to make their cats vegan, but cats need meat so thats like animal abuse not to provide meat for your carnivorous pet, because animals like that simply are not built for veganism.

Their digestive system is built for a meat diet. from what I understand carnivore animals pass things through their digestive system quicker. Due to bacteria and such in raw meat it goes through their system faster so they get the nutrients but there is not enough time for some of those gross bacteria to make them sick. So a vegan diet would hurt these animals because they won't get enough nutrients from plants with a digestive system that works so quickly because it will break them down too much before they get the nutrients. So they'll just end up malnourished.