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Autism can be inherited from a parent with genes for autism. It can also be the result of a gene that mutated.

Perhaps there is a better word to describe the biological process that might be involved in changing gene structure? Instead of "mutated" which is connected with "mutant", "mutilated", "mutation", we could talk about "differentiated" which leads to the words "difference", "different" and "differentiation".

We can then reserve the word "mutated" for those people born resembling a "Shrek" gone all wrong, and not those with perfectly acceptable normal variations within the wide parameters of what is consider typical humanity. It would not be sensible to include people who are double-jointed, left-handed, mixed lobed, beak-nosed, pidgeon-toed, knock-kneed, butt-ugly, or phobic about so-called disabilities, as all being mutants. I think it would be much more clever to consider them pretty much part and parcel of run-of-the-mill humanity.

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