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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Anonymous 0 Comments

As someone who is autistic and thought they had a PD thanks to poor diagnosis criteria. Fair question.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Autism isn’t a personality disorder it’s a structural abnormality in the brain from overconnection of neurones. It causes significant suffering, completely different from that of a personality disorder.