• SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Autism is a spectrum, literally all of us are on it. That’s literally what a spectrum is in a psychological context. Everyone is “on the spectrum” that’s what makes it a spectrum.

    I’m not going to claim that you don’t have the qualifications or experience you claim to have, but autism clearly isn’t your field of expertise. Autism isn’t called a spectrum because everybody is on it. It’s because it presents very differently in different people and there are a wide variety of traits only a few of which may be shared by any two autistic individuals.

    The diagnostic criteria quite explicitly compare and contrast the traits of autistic people with the traits of allistic people, and the impairment is categorised by levels, 1, 2, or 3.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      5 minutes ago

      and the impairment is categorised by levels, 1, 2, or 3.

      I tried to measure my hope for the future…

      I got a 0…

      Do you not believe in the concept of zero?