• The relationship between autism and memory, specifically memory functions in relation to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is an ongoing topic of research...
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    and has led to infighting. Outline of autism Animal model of autism Autism and memory Autism in popular culture Autistic art Controversies in autism Discrimination...
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    Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or simply autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder that begins in early childhood, persists throughout adulthood, and is...
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    Classic autism—also known as childhood autism, autistic disorder, or Kanner's syndrome—is a formerly diagnosed neurodevelopmental disorder first described...
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  • Nonverbal autism, also called nonspeaking autism, is a subset of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) where the person does not learn how to speak.[failed verification]...
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  • High-functioning autism (HFA) was historically an autism classification to describe a person who exhibited no intellectual disability but otherwise showed...
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    Monotropism (category Autism)
    the child's interests, and making connections between people and concepts more "meaningful and less complex." Autism and memory Caetextia Monomania Idée...
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    The heritability of autism is the proportion of differences in expression of autism that can be explained by genetic variation. Autism has a strong genetic...
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    particularly unusual, specific, or niche. Autism rights advocates and psychologists say this binary of acceptable "passions" and pathologised "obsessions" is unfair...
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  • The history of autism spans over a century; autism has been subject to varying treatments, being pathologized or being viewed as a beneficial part of...
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  • Eidetic memory (/aɪˈdɛtɪk/ eye-DET-ik), also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at...
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    Savant syndrome (category Exceptional memory)
    neurodevelopmental condition, such as autism, or have experienced a brain injury. About half of cases are associated with autism, and these individuals may be known...
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    Societal and cultural aspects of autism or sociology of autism come into play with recognition of autism, approaches to its support services and therapies...
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  • Sex and gender differences in autism exist regarding prevalence, presentation, and diagnosis. Men and boys are more frequently diagnosed with autism than...
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    segment of the adult autism population, and the memory and savant skills are not easily fit into the job market. We're learning that "autism-friendly workplace"...
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    paradigm, viewing autism as a set of naturally occurring variations in human cognition, a cognitive difference with both strengths and weaknesses, rather...
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    causes of autism, including environmental and genetic factors, have been recognized or proposed, but understanding of the etiology of autism is incomplete...
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  • Diagnoses of autism have become more frequent since the 1980s, which has led to various controversies about both the cause of autism and the nature of...
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  • Amnesia (redirect from Memory loss)
    memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases, but it can also be temporarily caused by the use of various sedative and hypnotic drugs. The memory can...
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    Asperger syndrome has been merged with other conditions into autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and is no longer a diagnosis in the WHO's ICD-11 or the APA's...
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    Jenny McCarthy (category Autism activists)
    disproven idea that vaccines cause autism, and said that chelation therapy, a quack remedy, helped cure her son of autism. McCarthy's proselytization of these...
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    of autism is the study of the incidence and distribution of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). A 2022 systematic review of global prevalence of autism spectrum...
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  • Boucher J (May 2007). "Memory and Generativity in Very High Functioning Autism: a Firsthand Account, and an Interpretation". Autism. 11 (3): 255–64. doi:10...
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    Andrew Wakefield (category MMR vaccine and autism)
    fraudulent 1998 Lancet MMR autism study that falsely claimed a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. The publicity surrounding...
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    Temple Grandin (category Autism activists)
    her memories using slightly different contexts by changing the positions of the lighting and shadows. Grandin does not support eliminating autism genes...
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    pedigrees. Autism traits on the Autism-spectrum quotient (AQ) were reported in both first-degree relatives of child prodigies and of autism, which was...
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    Hyperfocus (category Autism)
    (ADHD) together with inattention, and it has been proposed as a trait of other conditions, such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One proposed...
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  • scientifically controversial and remains disputed. Dissociative amnesia was previously known as psychogenic amnesia, a memory disorder, which was characterized...
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    include a long and narrow face, large ears, flexible fingers, and large testicles. About a third of those affected have features of autism such as problems...
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    diagnosed with autism, he is now thought to have had FG syndrome. Laurence Kim Peek was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Francis "Fran" Peek and Jeanne W....
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