Originally Posted by ElizabethN
I see.
Glad you found it.

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DeeDee's suggestion that these are not universal experiences of autism.
The real question here may be, who suggested these ARE universal experiences of autism?

This post shares "There is a spectrum, your child may be on the spectrum but there is no expectation that a child on the spectrum would match every characteristic. Lists of characteristics generally provide a broad umbrella, or a wide net... they are meant to be inclusive. Similarly, lists of gifted characteristics do not imply or infer that a gifted child will exhibit ALL characteristics, or will exhibit characteristics to a particular degree".

When a person argues against something which has not been said, this is called a "strawman" argument and is considered a flawed logic, or a logical fallacy.

While the small size of the words in a word cloud may indicate infrequent repetition of the exact phrase, these 5 occurrences seem to parallel the "sensory dysfunction" which DeeDee deemed an inappropriate stereotype. Thus far, we've not seen the distinction illuminated for our edification.