Antiautistic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Antiautistic is an adjective meaning Exhibiting, characteristic of, or relating to antipathy toward and/or discrimination against autistic people.
Meaning
Exhibiting, characteristic of, or relating to antipathy toward and/or discrimination against autistic people.
More Meanings
- (pharmacology, psychiatry, of a drug) Tending to reduce lethargy or withdrawn emotional states.
- (dated, psychiatry) Countering autism or autistic behaviour.
- (dated, figurative) Aware of, interested in, or engaging with other people or the world.
Example Sentences
This book mentions childhood neglect and anti-autistic ableism.
In one case, for instance, we felt that we could detect three antiautistic features in the mother.
Those preparations prescribed in particularly small doses act not only anti-psychotic but also antiautistic.
At higher doses, it is antiautistic, disinhibiting and resocializing, all effects useful in treating chronic psychoses.
Word Forms
- anti-autistic
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include autistic, antipathic, antipathetic, antipathetical, antiaesthetic, antipatico.
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