autistic

What this will provide for disabled and autistic people is amazing.

Pfft, I can do this, any idiot can do this, especially if he's half-autistic like me.

As a fellow sibling of a severely autistic individual, I concur on all points.

Their semi autistic hiring process gets people with high IQs but does nothing to weed out amoral weirdos or even just plain assholes.

I worked at a speech pathology clinic that specialized in autistic spectrum disorders for a while.

For example, some autistic people can recognize facial expressions masterfully, but fail at other things.

If we're treating too many nonautistic children as "autistic," then by nature, we're diluting the actual pool of people we should be studying and helping.

This is not 4chan; "autistic" is not an appropriate description for anything other than the actual psychological disorder.

I kindof get the feeling facebook conveys an autistic interpretation of human social interactions.

That reads like an autistic kid or maybe OCD adult with a 'special interest' in trains explaining why a train crashed: "Company A always bumped the letter of the model number when releasing a new engine.

However, they constitute something, something almost completely different than many of the people I meet who claim to be autistic, and the language has progressively failed us in description.

Thus I don't actually see them in the "spoilt toddler" mode, rather more like an autistic adult person behaving rationally in a world that constantly baffles them because they have a different internal model of its rules.

They manage the community in a very autistic fashion - quality questions with quality answers get closed because they are slightly subjective, which completely obliterates the community feeling.