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Odin2005

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11. I think the problem is how autistic people are stereotyped.

Reply to LiberalArkie (Original post)

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 06:01 PM

Feb 2016

She doesn't fit the popular stereotype of high-functioning autism (think Sheldon Cooper), which is male-centric in many cases and STEM-centric, and so the possibility was overlooked for a long time. People who poo-poo the claim that Jefferson and Einstein were autistic suffer from the same stereotype bias.

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The invisible link between autism and anorexia [View all] LiberalArkie Feb 2016 OP

Excellent! WhaTHellsgoingonhere Feb 2016 #1

I used to exercise obsessively and not eat. hunter Feb 2016 #2

Aches and pains in your 50's, When I asked my doc, she said "Mr. Johnson, you are just getting older LiberalArkie Feb 2016 #3

Aches and pains, I wish... hunter Feb 2016 #5

I was that way when I was younger. 5% body fat as a kid. LiberalArkie Feb 2016 #6

So, she spent decades being diagnosed as "hysterical," in other words Orrex Feb 2016 #4

Does this doctor have x-ray vision? Snobblevitch Feb 2016 #7

Autistic and >250 lbs. here KamaAina Feb 2016 #8

Xposted to Asperger's/PDD group KamaAina Feb 2016 #9

I'll read this later, but I wonder... HuckleB Feb 2016 #10

I think the problem is how autistic people are stereotyped. Odin2005 Feb 2016 #11

I think I was mildly Autistic as I would get on a creative project and stay there. LiberalArkie Feb 2016 #12

Damn! I could have told them that thirty-five years ago IF the many 1monster Mar 2016 #13