No. Some may have intellectual disabilities as well, but many have average to high IQs as well.
Absolutely not! Autism is not being able to express emotion or struggle with people. Mental retardation is a whole new story! Examples of autism are ADHD,ADD, Asbergers, etc.
Nothing is the same as cancer and autism, not even cancer and autism are the same. Some very offensive people liken autism to a disease such as cancer, this is ableist.
An Autistic is a person with Autism.
Rain Man from the same name movie has a severe autism.
The offensive names for calling someone with autism is retard, dumdum,blockhead, dunce, dunderhead hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, poor fish, pudden-head, pudding head, stupe
Autism is inborn. They haven't figure out what causes autism yet.
Autism isn't located in the brain, autism is a type of brain. Autism is a neurological variation, we don't say that autism is in the brain in the same way that we don't say that African-American is in the skin.
no. someone can be called a retard which is slang for someone having mental retardation or is developmentally disabled.
The eyes of a person with autism look the same as the eyes of other people.
the same way humans do, retard
no.
Yes, you capitalize autism when you are talking about Autistic people or Autistic communities - the same as you would with deaf verses Deaf person. Autism is an identity, capitalizing recognizes that.
The same way you apply normal tape, you retard!