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3:51pm July 4, 2014
mappingcat asked: Hi - I'm wondering how connected your perception of the material world as alive (e.g. your deep attachment to the San Mateo redwoods, or the way you crochet) is to the core of your autism? In reading autiebiographical material I'm seeing the pattern of deep connection with the natural world emerge time and time again, and I strongly identify with that connection. Is this pattern something you might classify as a subtype of autism? Thanks -

I’m not sure that I would say these particular things are a subtype of autism.  But I would absolutely say that they arise more often from a subtype of autism.  Like, I do think there’s a specific type of autism that I have, that Anne has, that several other people I know have, and that makes us more likely to have all these characteristics.  (And there are other subtypes of autism that can cause similar things too, for slightly different reasons.  At least, that’s my guess.)

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