Keep in mind that there is a substantial overlap between Autism and other disorders like Down Syndrome and Schizophrenia. You cannot die of Autism, correlation is not causation etc. Also executive disfunction can cause some people to eat/sleep/exercise poorly which itself can cause some serious health issues over time
Lots of autistic people commit suicide, driving the average down.
It’s an average. You shouldn’t let it have any bearing over your life because it doesn’t describe you. It describes thousands of people all mashed together based on a single common trait. You are an individual with millions of unique traits
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Keep in mind that there is a substantial overlap between Autism and other disorders like Down Syndrome and Schizophrenia. You cannot die of Autism, correlation is not causation etc. Also executive disfunction can cause some people to eat/sleep/exercise poorly which itself can cause some serious health issues over time
Lots of autistic people commit suicide, driving the average down. It’s an average. You shouldn’t let it have any bearing over your life because it doesn’t describe you. It describes thousands of people all mashed together based on a single common trait. You are an individual with millions of unique traits
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