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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You need to work on your reading comprehension.  50% of the population is male.

100% of NT men have autistic traits as do 100% of NT women.  "Autistic traits" are "human traits" but in the extreme.  100% of human beings have "autistic traits", it's part of what makes us human.[/quote]

I didn't miscomprehend. I wrote incorrectly. I meant to say 50% of the population, presumably representing neurotypical males, are insinuated to have autistic traits by the idiot PP. Now you say thats true, that the entire male population has autistic traits. And to boot, you include the entire female population in there too. Regardless of whether autistic traits are "human' traits, it doesn't follow that the entire population has them. Perseverative behavior, echolalia, and stimming are autistic traits but the entire male and female  population do not have these traits. Similarly, lacking theory of mind is an autistic trait also, but, in fact, the entire male and female population does not lack theory of mind.  Autistic traits are clinically diagnosed characteristics of a spectrum disorder and must be distinguished from the male stereotype.

Looks to me like you and that PP are trying to minimize and trivialize ASD, perhaps to reduce it's stigma. I understand your motive may be well intentioned but you can't do that. ASD is a lifelong disability, so don't associate it with typical male stereotypes.[/quote]

Echolalia and preservative behavior are not autistic traits. Those are autistic behavior sthat inevitably lead to ASD diagnosis. Autistic traits present in the general populations are things like preference for things over people, low tolerance for small talk, obsessive ingresrs, shyness etc. Those kinds of traits are what some of the people who lost ASD diagnosis still have. None of them has hard core autism symptoms, thus they lost their diagnosis and they no more have autism.[/quote]

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