autism: n. 自闭症zi4 bi4 zheng4, zheng4 means illness autistic: a. 患自闭症的 huan4 zi4 bi4 zheng4 de, huan4 means "get (the disease)", or you could replace huan4 with 得de2 or 有you3, totally the same meaning, it's juest 患huan4 is more formal. "de", when without any tune, is sort of an adjective suffix in Chinese, but NOT in all cases, you can see it as a suffix here, for your easier understanding. for instance, an autistic child, in Chinese would be: an autistic child: yi2 ge4 huan4 zi4 bi4 zheng4 de er2 tong2, 一个患自闭症的儿童 or yi2 ge4 de2 zi4 bi4 zheng4 de er2 tong2, 一个得自闭症的儿童 or yi2 ge4 you3 zi4 bi4 zheng4 de er2 tong2 一个有自闭症的儿童 get it?

being offline for ages and now im back!! you can find answer for this question in any dictionary: autism is a noun, in chinese 自闭症/孤独症 - 因为孤独、自闭而形成的一种心理病症 (psychologic illness resulting from standing autistic feeling); autistic is a adjective, in chinese 自闭的/孤独的。 太“自闭/孤独”就变成了“自闭症/孤独症”(Being too autistic becomes autism) im on skype again. if you're online, find me there, cheerio!

autism means 自闭症/zi bi zheng/ autistic means 自闭的/zi bi de/

autism 自我中心主义 autistic 自闭的

autism 孤独症gu1 du2 zheng4 autistis means the people who get the autism?孤独症患者gu1 du2 zheng3 huan4 zhe3