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Autism
A rare psychiatric disease of childhood, usually with onset before the age of 2 = years. It is marked by difficulties in communicating and forming relationships with other people, in developing language, and in using abstract concepts; repetitive and limited patterns of behaviour and obsessive resistance to tiny changes in familiar surroundings.