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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I have both autism and borderline personality disorder, and I can say that both anecdotally and clinically, the difference is that personality disorders stem from an issue in nurture (i.e childhood abuse, neglect, trauma) while autism is a developmental thing which just happens, and has nothing to do with nurture.

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