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I thought savants were a subcatagory of autistic people rather than it being an alternative name. The savants are the super talented ones - like that boy who was on the TV years ago who was amazing at drawing very detailed pictures in a small amount of time


This article seems to back that up:-


http://www.autism.org/savant.html


If people are choosing to describe all autistic people as savants maybe it's because they think it is a more positive thing to call them?

Never heard anyone use it, just sounds like general ignorance. My brother who we care for is autistic. I don't know about "preffered" or anything, and its not like there is just one type of autism anyhow. I do know that a fair few people in America with Aspergers syndrome refer to themselves as "aspies" as some kind of self-affirmation or something. I can't see it taking off here though, you don't see any intelligent black people in London calling each other Ni**a do you? (though you may hear some idiots do it).

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