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> The answer is that there is no line and no one determines it

Why is that the answer?

> So if "self-harming as a stim is sufficient to qualify as profoundly autistic", then they can sweep up pretty much any autistic person.

Disagree. I think your stats are off.



> Why is that the answer?

If it's not the answer, then where is the line and who determines it?

> Disagree. I think your stats are off.

I didn't provide any statistic, I made a generalized observation based on the autistic people I know. If you have stats, provide them.

But my observation is every autistic person I know has engaged in some level of self-harm stimming, and my generalization is that means lots of autistic people stim in this way, and this means if self-harm is a criteria for being "profoundly autistic", that will cause a lot of false positives.


> If it's not the answer, then where is the line

Scroll up. We’ve discussed this already.




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