The article does not mention Pathological Demand Avoidance as a form of autism. Everybody avoids chores they don't like, but people with PDA take it an extreme. For somebody to have PDA enough that it becomes a shade of autism the world exists only in the form of I want and I don't Want so much so that it limits the imagination and perceptions of the world.
For example somebody with PDA autism cannot interpret the nonverbal communications of other people because they have already made the immediate decision that they want to be liked by others, so therefore they are. They cannot try new foods because they may not like it if they do try, so therefore they don't like it already. They would rather suffer hours of punishment grounded in their room than accomplish a 2 minute chore, because they already know in advance they would prefer to not do the chore given a choice to not do it.
People with PDA autism often appear to be sociopaths and pathological liars. They are not either of those things, due only to a minor difference in motivation. Sociopaths don't care if somebody else gets hurt so long as they get what they want, while harm to others does impact somebody with PDA in a very normal way. Since they have no capacity for empathy and color every past observance to fit their world definition of saving face it takes a lot of time with a PDA person to see the distinctions between them and a sociopath.
For example somebody with PDA autism cannot interpret the nonverbal communications of other people because they have already made the immediate decision that they want to be liked by others, so therefore they are. They cannot try new foods because they may not like it if they do try, so therefore they don't like it already. They would rather suffer hours of punishment grounded in their room than accomplish a 2 minute chore, because they already know in advance they would prefer to not do the chore given a choice to not do it.
People with PDA autism often appear to be sociopaths and pathological liars. They are not either of those things, due only to a minor difference in motivation. Sociopaths don't care if somebody else gets hurt so long as they get what they want, while harm to others does impact somebody with PDA in a very normal way. Since they have no capacity for empathy and color every past observance to fit their world definition of saving face it takes a lot of time with a PDA person to see the distinctions between them and a sociopath.