What actually is autism?

>>9155794
The autistic brain is slightly bigger because it didn't trim useless neurons when growing up. Those extra neurons are responsible for the ultra sensibility that autists are known for.

I'm diagnosed as autistic and, given my general social behavior, it's clearly deserved. But I don't get these threads. Do you really think your mind operates so differently from a neurotypical's that it deserves analysis? The only thing I find that's really different between myself and non-autists is that I'm blessed with retard-level social skills.

>>9155804
Source?

>>9155794
They don't know, which is why it's based on a spectrum, rather than having separate but similar diagnoses for various physical abnormalities in the brain.

I think that when we observe people who are extremely sensitive to certain allergens and their allergic reaction affects the brain then what we notice are symptoms that outwardly appear to other people to be indistinguishable from the symptoms of autism.

>>9155794
Brain damage via a chronic pathological state characterized by neuroinflammation and faulty VGCC function.

>>9157156
Let me guess, caused by RF?

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>>9155804

Kek

>>9157156
???

>>9158241
leave my megahertzs out of this

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Autism is the next step in human evolution

>>9155794

This might help to understand:the brain takes in so much information that the person can't handle it. When you see an autistic person going into a meltdown, they're not crazy; there's just so much going on inside their head that their only option is to freak out, bang their head, to release some of that noise.

It's essentially an overload of sensory processing and heightened arousal to stimuli.