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[quote=Anonymous]Not discriminatory as a way to talk about someone with Autism - ie "my son is on the spectrum." But inappropriate to diagnose someone else without being a doctor doing an eval. Presumably, the comments are also related to what a NT would judge to be "odd" or even "antisocial" behavior, so it carries judgment in the way it's being used. I can see a circumstance where someone used it in a not demeaning way and would consider that ill informed or ill advised but not discriminatory - ie "John just doesn't like big crowds, so he keeps to himself at casual work gatherings. I think he might be in the spectrum. He seems happy enough looking at his phone over there, so lets not bother him."[/quote]
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