>>15043891>But since autism is just a list of traitsAutism isn't a "list of traits", it's a neuropsychiatric disorder. Many psychiatric disorder manifest themselves differently in men and women.
Depression, for example, is often linked to rage and sometimes violent behaviour in men, but not in women.
What autism is, in short, is the brain is wired differrently than in a normal person. Especially the frontal lobe. This leads to a lot of different characteristics, depending on age, sex, culture, severity and person.
Being autistic is not synonymous with being introverted, or this, or that.
t. doing my residency in psychiatrics
