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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Autism has heavy overlap with sensory processing in addition to thinking patterns. There’s not really a “personality” disorder that fits needing to take the tags off of clothes, or can’t stand the smell of bacon etc.

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