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Preservation of sameness
preservation of sameness refers to a A characteristic of children with autistic disorder who show an anxious and obsessive insistence on the maintenance of sameness that no one but the child may disrupt. Changes in daily routine, arrangement of objects, the wording of requests, or the sight of anything broken or incomplete, will produce tantrums or despair.
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