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deafpolygon on Nov 22, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: An autistic man was surfing the internet on his da...

> People with autism are not psychopath

And psychopaths are not autistic.

Yet it does not make the two things mutually exclusive. They can be both present and exhibit in individuals at the same time.

Scandiravian on Nov 22, 2022 [–]

Sure. The occurrence of this combination would be so rare that I don't think it's worth discussing, unless your argument is that an autistic psychopath would somehow be more dangerous than a psychopath without autism?

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