Autism Umbrella Chart

thank you for this chart i will have go at it myself I am organizing an  adult autism spectrum condition awareness day  at my church along with a adult autism spectrum condign  document to goon our web site to help others understand our condition  better this great i shall use it for that as will thank you 

WOW! I didn't know about sci-hub. Thanks.

Here you go via sci-hub sci-hub.tw/.../j.ridd.2018.03.006

"Cluster analysis of autism spectrum disorder symptomatology: qualitatively distinct subtypes or quantitative degrees of severity of a single disorder?"

It's behind a paywall or needs access via an institutional login unfortunately.

Do you have a url for that 'high impact'/'low impact' paper ?

This is useful, I will take a copy alongside the information I have from Bethany Edwards covering the seven areas:-

Sight

Smell

Sound

Taste

Touch

Space (area around the person e.g. trying to get through gaps too small OR feeling uncomfortable in close proximity to others)

Balance

I've only just come back to this thread and realised that you made it yourself rather than finding it somewhere - great work!

At the moment I'm quite fascinated by how autism affects people differently, and it staggers me that no research has identified "clusters" or profiles within autism where groups of autistic people experience "similar - ish" effects. The only paper I've read that comes close to this concludes that there are exactly two clusters, corresponding to "high impact" and "low impact" and notes that these don't correlate with any existing or previous diagnostic labels such as Asperger or HFA etc.

I'd also be fascinated to see a chart that identifies autistic effects as distinct from the effects of co-morbid conditions, as I think this would provide the basis for a clear explainer that increases understanding for everyone.

Also (obvs) I want to understand my own profile.

I've often wondered about someone setting up something on the web that everyone could contribute to - like a big version of your chart with a row per person and a "H/M/L" or "3/2/1" entry for each effect, anonimous of course, but with identifiers for what diagnosis the person has been given (including co-morbids, and none at all) - I'd love to see this with several thousand rows and play at cluster analysis with it! What stops me doing this myself is that I don't know how, and I don't know how to handle the data protection and ethical aspects.

Here's a mind map I made ages ago trying to capture all of the possible impacts (it is still work in progress).

This is really excellent! Thank you so much for sharing.

When I logged on this morning I was directed to the NAS public attitudes survey, and one of the questions was something like, “What would you find most helpful for the public to understand about autism?” I wish I could go back and change my answer to “Xanadu’s Autism Umbrella Chart”.

Thank you for sharing your chart. I shall go through it and apply it to myself and my youngest daughter (both diagnosed ASD) once my morning coffee has taken effect

 It was hard deciding what levels were right for me

Speech delayed/absent=no

Understanding problems
listening, concentration
or understanding = mild. Better with written rather than spoken information

Frequent repetition of
words or phrases =  mild ? Have got into the habit of saying FFS out loud to myself when things go a little wrong 

Taking things literally= moderate? Letter about post diagnosis appt said I took things very literally

Difficulty sensing or
interpreting peoples
feelings = mild (I think-?)

Difficulty expressing
feelings = moderate Score reasonably high  on online alexthymia test .

Rituals or repetitive
behaviours = mild

Over or under sensitive
to sound, touch, taste,
smell or light = mild

Disliking changes
to routines = moderate

Difficulty making
friends and socialising = severe