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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/SpecificSinger9487 on 2026-05-19 15:22:22+00:00.

There has been quite a debate if a person is autistic with how wide the spectrum is and how different people are, well there is and its related to synaptic pruning, now for those that don’t know synaptic pruning is where your brain naturally prune’s synapses that occur between your brain when you get older, it helps us get in information and habits when we are young but when we get adulthood it prunes a lot as its no longer needed as we have taken in information and knowledge on a big scale, now for non autistic people they have pruning at 60 percent by the time they reach adulthood but with autistic people like us that can be a lot slower and can be as low as 15 percent or even lower, im really wanting stuff like the dsm to change sooner as this can literally be found with just a brain scan and a lot easier to find then struggling to tell if a behaviour is autistic or not