Autist

Full definition of autist

Noun

1. An autistic person.
• 1995, Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on MarsMost 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 NeuropsychoanalysisLike children and animals, autists have relatively rudimentary conceptual lives.