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"Autistic" in a Sentence (15 examples)
"Educational autism" in the California school system apparently has looser criteria than the DSM-IV's series of autistic disorders.
It is gross to kick autistic children.
Is this kid autistic or does he have ADHD? His behavior is hard to characterize either way.
The upcoming fifth edition of the DSM proposes a new spectrum-based classification of autistic disorders.
He's autistic.
The term "autistic savant" is used to describe a person who is autistic and is extremely talented in one or more specialized fields.
Is Tom autistic?
Tom isn't autistic.
Tom is autistic.
Autistic children never get bored.
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Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to the rubber room.
imagine being this autistic over a fictional character
If our definition of empathy were to require we take the human cognitive norm (overwhelmingly influenced by neurotypical cognition) as the absolute standard by which to measure empathy, then indeed we would have to conclude autistics do not instinctively possess a good sense of empathy.
Yet because of the history and proliferation of the supercrip in films in television shows – not only with autism but supercrips with other disabilities as well – viewers are primed for the supercrip autistic and are therefore not expecting (in some ways) a view of autism that comes across to many in the autism community as more realistic or honest.
After reading this book, medical professionals should be able to develop an understanding of some of the challenges that autistics are experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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