autist

From autism +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.tɪst/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːtɪst

autist (plural autists)

1. An autistic person, a person with autism.
   • 1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars:

     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 […]

   • 2011, W M Bernstein, A Basic Theory of Neuropsychoanalysis:

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

2. (Internet slang, offensive, derogatory, often self-deprecating) A person characterized by abnormal and unhealthy focus or persistence, low self-awareness and unhealthy hatred of opposition or criticism.

   autists arguing about 'muh graphics'

• Tauist

Probably borrowed from English autist.

• IPA^(key): /ɑu̯ˈtɪst/

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• Hyphenation: au‧tist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

autist m (plural autisten, diminutive autistje n)

1. autist, person with autism

• autisme
• autistisch

Borrowed from French autiste.

autist m or n (feminine singular autistă, masculine plural autiști, feminine and neuter plural autiste)

1. autistic

autist m (plural autiști)

1. someone who is autistic

autist c

1. (dated) an autist (person with autism)
2. (Internet slang, derogatory or self-deprecatory) an autist

"Autistisk" (autistic) or "... som har autism" (who has autism) or "... med autism" (with autism) is more common in modern times.

• autism
• autistisk

• autist in Svensk ordbok (SO)