autist
noun/ˈɔː.tɪst/
Etymology From autism + -ist.
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An autistic person, a person with autism.
- Most autists are not artists, as most artists are not autists; but in the chance of their coming together […] there must, I think, be an interaction between the two, so that the art takes on some of the strengths and weaknesses of autism […]1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars:
- Like children and animals, autists have relatively rudimentary conceptual lives.2011, W M Bernstein, A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis:
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Internet, Derogatory, Offensive A person characterized by abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, low self-awareness and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism.
Often self-deprecatory
- autists arguing about 'muh graphics'