Meaning of autist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An autistic person, a person with autism.
2. A person characterized by abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, low self-awareness and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism.
   Internet, derogatory, offensive

Equivalents

Examples

“Most autists are not artists, as most artists are not autists; but in the chance of their coming together […] there must, I think, be an interaction between the two, so that the art takes on some of the strengths and weaknesses of autism […]”

“Like children and animals, autists have relatively rudimentary conceptual lives.”

“autists arguing about 'muh graphics'”

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