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Autism spectrum — lived experience

Autism describes a nervous system that processes sensory, social, and cognitive information through distinctive channels — often with greater intensity, specificity, and pattern recognition than neurotypical minds. The autistic experience is not a deficit relative to a norm but a different mode of citta operating by its own coherent logic. Understanding it from the inside — as lived experience — is essential before any framework for support can be meaningfully applied.

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