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Hate the saying"Were all a bit autistic"

Kenny_1622

Some people who arent austitic in work say "we're all a bit autistic arent we" and the only difference between you and me is you have a diagnosis. Really makes me angry as they think just because soSmirk things that annoy them makes them autistic. I asked them how they deal with these annoying things and the said they just forget about it. Things that might annoy them will create severe emotional sSmirkess and anxiety, effects me socially and in some cases cause me to self harm, I can't just forget about it. It's obvious that a lot people don't understand what its really like to be autistic or theSmirkjust don't care and try and fob it off as something silly to just get over it Smirk 

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  • Whereas the phrase, "We're all a little autistic" is palpably wrong, the phrase "Some people are a little autistic" is undoubtedly correct. Genetics seems to account for around 80% of autism, and most of this is due to autism-associated alleles (minor variations in coding or non-coding DNA). These are found throughout the general population, autistic people just have more than average. As this is the case, there must be a population of people with just under the number or combination of alleles needed for an autism diagnosis; these people would be a 'little autistic'. However, the problems of a diagnosed autist are obviously more profound than those of anyone who would fall below the diagnosis threshold.

    As an analogy, autism is not like an off/on switch, where you are either autistic or not. It is more like a thermostat, with the analogue of the temperature when the boiler comes on, being the threshold for diagnosis set by clinicians. Autistics are part of a continuum within the general population, not a separate species.

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  • Whereas the phrase, "We're all a little autistic" is palpably wrong, the phrase "Some people are a little autistic" is undoubtedly correct. Genetics seems to account for around 80% of autism, and most of this is due to autism-associated alleles (minor variations in coding or non-coding DNA). These are found throughout the general population, autistic people just have more than average. As this is the case, there must be a population of people with just under the number or combination of alleles needed for an autism diagnosis; these people would be a 'little autistic'. However, the problems of a diagnosed autist are obviously more profound than those of anyone who would fall below the diagnosis threshold.

    As an analogy, autism is not like an off/on switch, where you are either autistic or not. It is more like a thermostat, with the analogue of the temperature when the boiler comes on, being the threshold for diagnosis set by clinicians. Autistics are part of a continuum within the general population, not a separate species.

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