why autism isn’t considered a personality disorder?

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i’ve been reading about personality disorders and I feel like a lot of the symptoms fit autism as well. both have a rigid and “unhealthy” patterns of thinking, functioning and behaving, troubles perceiving and relating to situations and people, the early age of onset, both are pernament

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Autistic people process data differently. For example, if you show a photograph of a person to a neurotypical child, they will focus first on the face of the subject, and especially the eyes. Autistic children do not do that: they tend to focus on the background, on clothes, or anything else that grabs their attention.

Personality disorders do not work that way.

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