Holy shit. There's a whole Twitter inquisition going right now against autists who use the word '#aspie' to refer to themselves. Because rigorous monitoring of our language is absolutely the most important thing we need. Extraordinary.
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Sociopaths and borderlines get misdiagnosed as autistic sometimes, I guess. My model of autism has extreme difficulty with this kind of behavior. Maybe I don't have enough imagination.
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Probably a bunch of different defects that make up the spectrum! For nerd behavior, the functional criterion seems to be attention deficit for mental states of others (= lack of empathy), attention deficit for normative expectations, or inability to act on social signals.
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