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  2. Conditions comorbid to autism - Wikipedia

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    Many anxiety disorders, such as social anxiety disorder and generalized anxiety disorder, are not commonly diagnosed in people with ASD because such symptoms are better explained by ASD itself, and it is often difficult to tell whether symptoms such as compulsive checking are part of ASD or a co-occurring anxiety problem. The prevalence of ...

  3. Autism - Wikipedia

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    Increasingly many autism researchers and autism rights activists argue that autistic people (at least those with the more mild symptoms, such as those with full verbal proficiency) are representatives of human neurodiversity, that their social problems are caused mostly by social stigma, and that they should be accepted rather than cured.

  4. High-functioning autism - Wikipedia

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    High-functioning autism (HFA) was historically an autism classification to describe a person who exhibited no intellectual disability but otherwise showed autistic traits, such as difficulty in social interaction and communication, as well as repetitive, restricted patterns of behavior. The term is often applied to autistic people who are ...

  5. Prognosis of autism - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The degree of symptoms can decrease, occasionally to the extent that people lose their diagnosis of autism; [3] [4] this occurs sometimes after intensive treatment [5] and sometimes not. It is not known how often this outcome happens, [ 6 ] with reported rates in unselected samples ranging from 3% to 25%.

  6. Sensory overload - Wikipedia

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    People with autism experience auditory hypersensitivity which can lead to sensory overload. [23] Although people with autism do not have abnormalities in P50 sensory gating, they have anomalies in sensory gating related to the N100 test which indicates an irregularity in attention-related direction and top-down mental pathways. [23]

  7. Holly Madison Details High-Functioning Autism Symptoms After ...

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    Holly Madison recently learned that she is on the autism spectrum. “I’ve been suspicious of it for a while because my mom told me that she was always suspicious that that was a thing ...

  8. Diagnosis of autism - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, the presence of autism can make it harder to diagnose coexisting psychiatric disorders such as depression. [9] Diagnosing will be much harder in adults, since most people with ASD who reach adulthood undiagnosed, learn diverse (and often intense) masking techniques which make external diagnosis almost impossible.

  9. Why People Believe Debunked Claims about Vaccines and Autism

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    Believing in a vaccine-autism link, parents access an ever-expanding market of questionable products that claim to mitigate autistic symptoms—specialized diets, supplements, and riskier ...