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The Collaborative International Dictionary
autistic

autistic \autistic\ adj. afflicted with autism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
autistic

1912 (Bleuler), from autism (q.v.). Noun meaning "person with autism" is recorded from 1968 (earlier in this sense was autist).

Wiktionary
autistic

a. Pertaining to, or having autism. n. A person who has autism.

WordNet
autistic

adj. characteristic of or suffering from autism

Usage examples of "autistic".

Autistic children, Lynch had proved, were victims of a physiochemical imbalance which disabled their suppressor-circuitry for sight, hearing, touch, smell, or any combination thereof, flooding their brains with an intolerable avalanche of useless data and shocking them into retreat.

Crowding under slowworms of lit glass spelling names and services, simple animationsa red-mouthed lady drawn with the light, replaced stutteringly with another who had raised her glass, and back again in autistic illuminant recursion.

And for other parents of autistic children, in the hope that they also find that delight in difference.

She has told me that Everyone knows this and Everyone does that, but I am not blind, just autistic, and I know that they know and do different things.

There are not enough autistic people to support all those orchestras and operas.

Nothing would convince Crenshaw that his reasons for championing Section A were far more complex than having an autistic brother.

The idea that autistic people are, or become, mentally ill persisted right through the end of the twentieth century, and I even saw an article about that in a magazine a few years ago.

Aldrin could not see into our heads, but if he has an autistic brother, then he may know more than I thought.

Aldrin, that he has an autistic brother, together with his attitudes toward us, so I say nothing.

The book said autistic persons are gullible and easily fooled because they do not understand the nuances of communication.

Most of the autistic behaviors have been presented to us as deficits, not strengths.

I do not think I am autistic because God thought my parents needed a challenge or I needed a challenge.

I do not think any autistic would be a stalker, but I do not know all of them and I could be wrong.

Maybe if I were not autistic, I could have been an astronaut or space scientist.

I wonder if it takes normal people longer to look inside themselves and see what is really happening than it does autistic people or if our brains work at the same speed there.