Are We All Autistic?

I talked about how I saw a play called “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” in my last post. This masterpiece was about a boy named Christopher.  Christopher struggles with an impacting disease called Autism.  When I was done yesterday with the play, I started to think about how autism is overly diagnosed in America.  This had me think of a specific question: Are we all Autistic in our own way? I say this because I noticed that Christopher showed some quirks that an average person might have.

 He was quirky, intelligent, knows what he wants, very determined, disorganized, and a little slow.   When we’re hyper, we’re quirky because we’re really happy.  When we are in our intellectual mood, we are intelligent.  When we want something really badly, we became determined to not let anything get in our way.  We can also be disorganized in either our head, or putting material together.  Sometimes, we can’t process certain things because how a certain thing is being said.

 There are more quirks that I noticed that are in both Autistic people, and regular people.  I’m only listing a few, but  I just feel that if we stop over labeling people with Autism, we will all realize how truly connected we each are to one another.