Profound autism, is it real, or is it just intellectual disability with certain autistic features? People with intellectual disability, who are also talkative and extrovert and keen on social interaction are not called 'profoundly neurotypical'.
This sort of thing, like assignment of species in human evolution, tends to switch between 'lumpers' and 'splitters'. The 'spectrum' saw lumpers in the ascendant, perhaps the pendulum is swinging the other way?
Profound autism, is it real, or is it just intellectual disability with certain autistic features? People with intellectual disability, who are also talkative and extrovert and keen on social interaction are not called 'profoundly neurotypical'.
This sort of thing, like assignment of species in human evolution, tends to switch between 'lumpers' and 'splitters'. The 'spectrum' saw lumpers in the ascendant, perhaps the pendulum is swinging the other way?
Profound autism, is it real, or is it just intellectual disability with certain autistic features
I was thinking about this, I think you want to see an example to prove it's existence?
I would reccommend viewing 'Inside our autistic minds', I think the first episode, it features Murray, who is I think, profoundly autistic, non-verbal but it is obvious he is also highly intelligent and thoughtful too.
Profound autism, is it real, or is it just intellectual disability with certain autistic features?
does it matter in this context? - to quote the article "The category is intended to help governments and service providers plan and deliver support, so autistic people with the highest needs aren’t overlooked. It also aims to re-balance their under-representation in mainstream autism research.what counts is are they treated fairly and appropriately supported by society."
maybe the mainstream autism research that is prompted by this will answer that question :-)
I agree it is an interesting take, but I think it obvious that not everyone with autism is the same and maybe it would be better to acknowlege the differences? I've wondered before why some people are not labled as very NT, do other NT's find them difficult and exhausting to around?
