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- noun An
autistic person.
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Examples
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I wonder if a) Matania was some kind of autist who had a photographic memory, and redrew a specific situation based on the picture in his head or b)he was someone who was genial at drawing without pictures/models because he made some sort of 3d-constructions in his head....
Matania’s Models and Props James Gurney 2010
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Eugene Volokh: autist: I suspect that those providing official transcripts of the Constitution seek to track the original perfectly, rather than “regulariz [ing] the spelling to modern standards.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Error in Many Versions of the United States Constitution 2010
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She may be, but as a mother of an autist I see her amazing computer skills as a not uncommon symptom of autism.
January 2009 Maxine 2009
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He wants to be the first nonspeaking autist to go away volitionally to school.
Ralph James Savarese: The Silver Trumpet Of Freedom Ralph James Savarese 2011
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I'm a diagnosed autist with emotions as stunted as my sense of smell.
Correlation Found Between Sense of Smell and Emotional Sensitivity » E-Mail 2009
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Darel Finkbeiner says: autist: In contrast, the word that most ST fans – myself included – mislearn is “sentient”.
The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean? 2010
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She may be, but as a mother of an autist I see her amazing computer skills as a not uncommon symptom of autism.
That girl who played with fire Maxine 2009
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Eugene Volokh says: autist: I suspect that those providing official transcripts of the Constitution seek to track the original perfectly, rather than “regulariz [ing] the spelling to modern standards.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Error in Many Versions of the United States Constitution 2010
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She may be, but as a mother of an autist I see her amazing computer skills as a not uncommon symptom of autism.
That girl who played with fire Maxine 2009
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I'm a diagnosed autist with emotions as stunted as my sense of smell.
Correlation Found Between Sense of Smell and Emotional Sensitivity 2009
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