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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Personality disorders are just that, a issue with someone’s personality.
Autism isn’t specifically a disorder, the person just works differently than the average human. And the world and society is designed for the average person, not someone whose brain processes the world around it differently.
To use an analogy if you drove a car into a lake, and it sunk, you wouldn’t go “well that car was broken”. Car isn’t made for driving on water. It works great on roads tho.
Many autistic people work perfectly fine when in an environment curated for them. However it’s impractical to make the world change to fit them, thus to go back to the analogy the car has to drive on water even tho its not designed for it, and so it gets some modifications and changes so it at minimum doesn’t sink.
So autistic people are taught behavioral therapies and some people medicated to make sure they don’t “sink” as it were.
Where as someone with a personality disorder is a boat with a hole in it. Its MEANT to be able to float and drive on water but its got a defect preventing that from happening.
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