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Autistic thinking is often described, by non Autistic people, in the negative. Difficulty with generalisation. Difficulty with abstraction. Difficulty with executive function.

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Autistic thinking is often described, by non Autistic people, in the negative. Difficulty with generalisation. Difficulty with abstraction. Difficulty with executive function. It is a strange literature, because it treats the Autistic mind the way a physicist might treat a cloud. A thing whose edges can only be measured by where its influence fails.

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