What do you think autism is?

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There are countless definitions of autism people have referred to. Some are ridiculous and are a matter of definitions of other words and things too. Here are just a few.

1. Sensory Processing Disorder
2. gluten high
3. mercury poisoning
4. catatonia
5. refrigerator mother survivors
6. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
7. daydreaming of a better life
8. too many brain cells
9. combination of factors
10. casein intolerance
11. poor parenting
12. social anxiety
13. general anxiety
14. deep depression
15. neurolinguistic disorder
16. isolation
17. Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder or simply ADD
18. understimulation
19. overstimulation
20. Auditory Processing Disorder
21. Nonverbal Learning Disorder

Add more to the list, whether it's a good thing to lump in with autism or not!

I know we can work out what the brain does, but it’s nothing compared to what we don’t know about the mind.
What makes us tick eludes scientist for now.
Understand our being and how our conscience came to be, that’s the task we have to understand before we know anything about the mind.
We are changing, evolving, at least we had better be, if not we are in trouble.

Knobody knows how our mind works for now, that still doesn't stop certain people calling themselves experts and making lots of money repeating what they do know, diddly squot...

About half of those I could get rid of immediately Namely poor parenting and refrigerator mom.

I believe autism is the evolving mind...

Indigo/Crystal children

Neanderthal ancestors

Ultra-nerd children of nerd parents (Silicon Valley effect)

Being "Closer to God"

Totally normal--just badly behaved

Demon Possessed

Early-Onset Schizophrenic

Brain Injury due to mother's medication during labor

Defective mirror neurons

Wasn't breast-fed long enough

Needed a good spanking and didn't get it

The "next step in evolution"

A throwback to an earlier stage in evolution

Actually an angel in human form

Just another name for "psychopath"

A myth created by Big Pharma to sell drugs

I believe that autism is just a different part of being and something to be celebrated.

i second rudy walsh

As a community, autism is a way of classifying our shared differences in cognition compared to the majority of non-autistic people. Anyone identifying as autistic is generally accepted so long as they share some similarities in cognition and experience with the majority.

In a clinical sense, autism is a collection of diagnosable behaviors common to significant group of patients. People diagnosed with autism receive specific medical care.

Scientifically, the most prevalent theory is autism is a set of structural neurological differences caused by genetics and possibly environmental factors in utero or during early childhood. Gene sequencing of Neanderthal DNA suggests that the genes for autism spectrum disorders were introduced by interbreeding with Neanderthals, although this is a relatively new and unproven hypothesis.

That is what I believe "autism is," a word with various meanings depending on context.

Genetic mutations early in pregnancy leading to subtle structural differences in the brain (and often elsewhere, for better and worse) caused by any one or combination of the following: prenatal environmental insult, heredity, random chance.

I just think Autism is a curse. Even those that seem to love it still have been unhappy with having Autism at some point in their lives. NTs who are unhappy aren't unhappy about being a neurotypical (just saying that because I'm not trying to say that NTs are happy and Autistics are not).

This is connected to autism in a different way in most of the cases:
1. Sensory Processing Disorder
9. combination of factors
15. neurolinguistic disorder
17. Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder or simply ADD
19. overstimulation
20. Auditory Processing Disorder
21. Nonverbal Learning Disorder

This could be connected to autism in some cases:
2. gluten high
3. mercury poisoning
8. too many brain cells
10. casein intolerance
18. understimulation

Not autism:
4. catatonia
5. refrigerator mother survivors
6. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
7. daydreaming of a better life
11. poor parenting
12. social anxiety
13. general anxiety
14. deep depression
16. isolation

None of the above... and, at the same time, all of the above.

One of the life lessons I have learned is that things rarely (if ever) have simple explanations. ASD can be many things - and the affected person's choices and attitudes can have a great influence on what it turns out to be

A WW2-era Nazi experiment to create super scientists that went wrong.