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Comment by ActorNightly

8 months ago

>Science and medicine is what has defined autism as a disease or abnormality.

Not really. DSM is not really scientific, its more statistical.

You could make arguments that autism is actually evolutionary, as people who are on the spectrum in certain ways are often better in select areas than neuro typical people.

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