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I'm confused. Elon Musk says he is autistic (actually he says he has aspergers, which has been eliminated with DSM 5 and replaced with autism) , is there any e
by staticman2 3y ago
I'm confused. Elon Musk says he is autistic (actually he says he has aspergers, which has been eliminated with DSM 5 and replaced with autism) , is there any evidence a high functioning autistic person like him "express and demonstrate challenges with understanding sarcasm, irony, nonverbal cues, idioms, figures of speech, etc".
This definition- of someone failing to understand idioms or figures of speech, sounds more like Lieutenant Commander Data on Star Trek than the meme twitter billionaire.
Is the definition of autism so broad as to have little practical meaning?
- Frummy 3y agoWhat was described was a specific common experience, not a definition. There are strengths as well to autism. The definition is broad, but it does have practical meaning, diagnosis is done by educated psychologists obviously though
- NohatCoder 3y agoIt is certainly very broad. And as much as some people try, you can't make any complete generalisations about what autistic people can or cannot do.