Autism is also a communication disorder. Speech delays/idiosyncrasies are common if not indicative of autism spectrum disorders. The inability to pick up social expectations by simple observation is a big thing, too.
There is a kind of cluster of characteristics that a preponderance of sort of tips the balance toward an autism diagnosis, if that makes sense. So a lot of autistics will share certain traits, but will not all have the same cluster of traits. Autistics can be very different from one another.
I see this daily in my own two autistic sons. One, BTW is an extrovert of some kind. The other appears to be an IXTP.
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