Risks
Cats with autism can get special interests, hyperfixations, stim, have verbal shutdowns, anxiety attacks, tics, tic attacks, seasonal depression, absences, daydreams, regress, have light sensitivity, overstimulation, and understimulation, become a system, nausea, echolalia, word loss, and meltdowns/shutdowns.
Comorbid
Cats with autism can have these comorbid conditions:
ADHD, light sensitivity, APD, SPD, Tourette's, dyslexia, dyscalculia, hyper/hypo empathy, face blindness, echolalia, selective mutism, and aphantasia.
WIP status
Autism is our most complete condition. As people bring up stuff, we might add or tweak but I don't see any major changes in the future.
History
Autism is the very first condition ever made in dadm and our mascot FringeKit has autism. Before we left ClanGen, we got a lot of flack for the name Starwalker due to its reclaimative nature. Though, ironically, Starwalker isn't even the first name that we went to for it and Starwalker was decided by a group of autistic people.
[ID Begins: A screenshot of a clangen cat. The conditions tab is open and they have Starwalker and Head Damage. End ID.]
Accessories and Service Pets
Cats with autism can find small animals and snakes to act as service animals as well as find autism pride flags!