And beelzbubba is correct, autism is a spectrum disorder and everything under that spectrum may or may not have a common root - it is just a group of disorders that have symptoms that fall inside the same continuum.posted by Lokheed at 10:32 AM on June 16, 2005 I am in agreement with DonFactor here as well, the industry saw what could have serious long term repercusions and then spent the next perio