why autism isn’t considered a personality disorder?

Question

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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Answer 1

The short answer is really:

Autism = Physical difference in brain. (Cannot be ‘treated’)
Personality disorder = Mental difference. (Can be treated.)