autistic thinking

autistic thinking
self-absorption; preoccupation with inner thoughts, drives, and idiosyncratic logic; egocentric, subjective thinking lacking objectivity and preferring a narcissistic, inner, private reality to that which is externally validated. Used interchangeably with dereistic t., although differing in emphasis. Called also autism.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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