autistic
Differences in activity between autistic (yellow) and non-autistic brains.
Meanings
Adjective
- Having autism, or pertaining to autism.
- Socially inept, self-absorbed, or stupid.
- Characterized by abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism.
Noun
- A person who has autism.
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Origin
- From autism -istic or -ic. First attested in 1913. The modern clinical sense is first used in 1943 by Leo Kanner.
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