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Chapter 4

  • Autism facts
  • 1. Vaccines do not cause autism.
  • 2. Autism is not a disease. You can’t cure autism.
  • 3. There is no “normal” person inside an autistic person.
  • 4. Autistic people have always been in the world.
  • 5. It’s okay to be autistic! Autism is not sad.
  • 6. Autistic adults are adults. That means that we have the minds of adults.
  • 7. Autistic people are autistic our whole lives.
  • 8. Most autistic people talk. All autistic people communicate.
  • 9. Autism and intellectual disability are not the same thing.
  • 10. Don’t assume things about non-speaking people.
  • 11. Autistic people know that everyone has thoughts.
  • 12. Autistic people are in the same world as everyone else.
  • 13. Not all autistic people are extra good at things.
  • 14. People of all genders are autistic.
  • 15. People of all races are autistic.
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13. Not all autistic people are extra good at things.

Some autistic people are better than almost everyone else at certain things. For example, they might know the day of the week of any day in history. Maybe they can draw a city perfectly from memory, or they might be able to do very hard math in their heads.

Most autistic people are not this way. We are good at some things and bad at some things, but it is very rare to be the best at something.

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