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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In most cases of autism it’s very difficult to label the impacts of it as bad so much as different.

You could call the thinking rigid. You could also call it more logical and consistent. It also doesn’t generally fit in with other personality disorders because it’s a fundamental differing from birth.

Autistic people are also disproportionately positively impacting society in terms of innovation. Between all the autistic engineers, research doctors and scientists, your life has been saved or drastically improved by autistic people more times than you can probably imagine.

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