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Artistic vs Autistic - What's the difference?

artistic | autistic |

As adjectives the difference between artistic and autistic

is that artistic is having or revealing creative skill while autistic is pertaining to, or having autism.

As a noun autistic is

a person who has autism.

artistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having or revealing creative skill
  • relating to or characteristic of art or artists
  • aesthetically pleasing
  • Antonyms

    * inartistic

    autistic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to, or having autism.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has autism.
  • * 2006 , Alan Griswold, Autistic Symphony
  • If our definition of empathy were to require we take the human cognitive norm (overwhelmingly influenced by neurotypical cognition) as the absolute standard by which to measure empathy, then indeed we would have to conclude autistics do not instinctively possess a good sense of empathy.

    Synonyms

    * autist

    Hyponyms

    * idiot savant (potentially offensive)