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Table of Contents

• Welcome to the Autism Community Guide.
• Welcome to the Autism Community Video.
• What Some Autistic People Want the Public to Know About Autism.
• Diagnostic Description
• Three Levels of Autism

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What Autistic People Want the Public to know about Autism

The following list is from an actual survey conducted with an autism support community

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What the Autism Community Wants People to Know

(Based on interviews)

• We are people too
• We want to be accepted, have people listen to us, have friends, be successful, and be given chances just like anyone else
• Some of us cannot read verbal and social cues
• Some of us appear shy

• We tend to interpret things literally

• Please understand us

• There are older autistic people too

• Flat non-verbal communication sometimes misinterpreted

• We are born this way please stop trying to fix us

• We frame things differently sometimes

• Some want more original autistic characters in comic books

• Media stereotypes us

• Not necessarily good at math

Diagnostic Description
Three Levels of Autism