A friend of mine who stutters, is diagnosed for autism. He told me that he had to answer the question of the psychologist. The psychologist wanted to hear 2 stories of my friend. One of the stories was: "Describe how you go from here to your house." My friend answered this question with a lot of stuttering. At the end, the psychologist diagnosed him as autist. Her reasoning was that 'how' the explanation was told, is similar to a person with autism. My friend who said 'could it be because of how I stutter and learned a special way to speak in order to cope with stuttering'? The psychologist confirmed that this could be although as she is not qualified to diagnose stuttering, she was only able to diagnose autism. The viewpoint is, that a person with autism, was always like this during early childhood. In the case of my friend who stutters, this is not the case for him. **Question:** So what is your opinion? Was it a correct judgement? Or do you think that 'stutterers' in general learned to cope with stuttering and therefore speak in a different way than non-autists? ​ **In my opinion:** It makes sense that severe stutterers avoid 'effective speaking' in order to improve fluency or improve comprehension', in my opinion. A person who stutterers, especially a severe stutterer, will deliberately see a stutter coming and then draw a conclusion to: \- be himself \- follow the core of the message \- skip words/sentences \- shorten or change sentences \- etc Therefore, diagnosing a person who stutters is very difficult for a psychologist who doesn't know what a PWS is doing in his mind. ​ **Autist features:** In case you didn't know, a person with autism has difficulty with descerning the bigger picture over details, following the core message, drawing conclusions. They are fixated with routines, rituals and thought-behavior (instead of free movement). They only see their own viewpoint of the world. Their attitude and perspective are hard to change. Other features are: inappriate behavior and unusual mood or emotional reactions.