autistic

comparative more autistic · superlative most autistic

1. Having, characteristic of, or relating to autism.

   Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to the rubber room.

   2003 July 2, Peter Bradshaw, “Punch-Drunk Love”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 07 Aug 2014

   Synonyms: on the spectrum

2. derogatoryoffensiveslang and medically obsoleteSocially inept, self-absorbed, or stupid.
3. Internet4chan slang; offensive or self-deprecatory; 4chan slang; offensive or self-deprecatoryCharacterized by abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism. Obsessive.

   imagine being this autistic over a fictional character

4. derogatoryoffensiveslangLame, uncool, stupid.

plural autistics

1. A person who has autism.

   After reading this book, medical professionals should be able to develop an understanding of some of the challenges that autistics are experiencing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

   2022, Matthew Bennett, Emma Goodall, Autism and COVID-19

   2 more examples

   If our definition of empathy were to require we take the human cognitive norm (overwhelmingly influenced by neurotypical cognition) as the absolute standard by which to measure empathy, then indeed we would have to conclude autistics do not instinctively possess a good sense of empathy.

   2006, Alan Griswold, Autistic Symphony

   Yet because of the history and proliferation of the supercrip in films in television shows – not only with autism but supercrips with other disabilities as well – viewers are primed for the supercrip autistic and are therefore not expecting (in some ways) a view of autism that comes across to many in the autism community as more realistic or honest.

   2016, Katherine Lashley, “Displaying Autism: The Thinking Images of Temple Grandin (2010)”, in Benjamin Fraser, editor, Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts, page 130

   Synonyms: autist