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Autism

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A community for respectful discussion and memes related to autism acceptance. All neurotypes are welcome.

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 61 points 11 months ago (22 children)

Stop saying allistic, it's really silly.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 47 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Neurotypical is honestly a better word

[–] Suspicious@lemmy.wtf 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Neurotypical means they have 0 mental conditions/disorders, allistic just means not autistic

[–] letsgocrazy@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be aautistic or non-autistic anyway?

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Maybe anautistic because autistic starts with a vowel. Or using the same logic with abnormal, we could say abautistic.

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