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Why is Autism located in the brain?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

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.

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