Everyone Is On The Autistic Spectrum ~ To Differing Extents And Degrees.

Daily mail again seeing a bit of research coming to a conclusion.

Just because someone reads reads the daily mail everyday, a compulsive habit for some, doesn't put them on the autistic spectrum. Just because someone can't read newsprint at 10 feet does not put them on the blind spectrum.

One or two difficulties at times here and there does not an autistic make, someone autistic has real profound difficulties in different areas. While people keep thinking 'everyone is on the autistic spectrum ' people won't understand about autism.

We have a long way to go.

Daily mail again seeing a bit of research coming to a conclusion.

Just because someone reads reads the daily mail everyday, a compulsive habit for some, doesn't put them on the autistic spectrum. Just because someone can't read newsprint at 10 feet does not put them on the blind spectrum.

One or two difficulties at times here and there does not an autistic make, someone autistic has real profound difficulties in different areas. While people keep thinking 'everyone is on the autistic spectrum ' people won't understand about autism.

We have a long way to go.

Trainspotter said:

Daily mail again seeing a bit of research coming to a conclusion.

Rather the Daily Mail reporting about a lot of research regarding scientific evidence.

Trainspotter said:

Just because someone reads reads the daily mail everyday, a compulsive habit for some, doesn't put them on the autistic spectrum. Just because someone can't read newsprint at 10 feet does not put them on the blind spectrum.

There is a process of genetic and linguistic development called Crystallisation, and a compulsive reading of one source of information, is of the fixed variety, as in the sense of being a narrow or singular range of interests, which is a diagnosable characteristic or trait recognised as being part of the autistic spectrum.

When it comes to someone not being able to read newsprint at 10 feet, and the Blind Spectrum, it has no baring with the Autistic Spectrum as being an evolutional development.  The Blind Spectrum is a range of visual disability, and Autism is not in itself a disability, as you have to have lost some functional aspect of ability to be disabled.

Trainspotter said:

One or two difficulties at times here and there does not an autistic make, someone autistic has real profound difficulties in different areas. While people keep thinking 'everyone is on the autistic spectrum ' people won't understand about autism.

But a particularly complex and specialised range of abilities does an autistic make, and someone who does have profound difficulties with social interactions, imagination and communication can be medically diagnosed as being Autistic. Being on the Autistic Spectrum as everybody is, and being diagnosed as being Autistic as some are, allows people not only to better understand their experience of things, but also to comprehend ours and other people's differing ranges of experience.

Trainspotter said:

We have a long way to go.

Most certainly we have a long way to go, and we now have an easier way to go about it too.

In a sense it is like telling people how many seconds and minutes make an hour ~ with the number of seconds to minutes being analogous of autistic traits in social terms, and the number of minutes to an hour being analogous to being Autistic in diagnosable terms.

To a larger extent people prefer similarity, so being on the autistic spectrum and being diagnosed as autistic are descriptively inclusive of all people sociologically ~ rather than just a few exclusively. :-)

It's more like there is a neurodiversity spectrum, with autism on one end and conditions such as psychopathy on the other. People on either end have trouble with social interactions, but for very different reasons. It's not just one line though. There are many different dimensions to it, but it is true that if a person has some traits of autism at a significant level, they also tend to have the other traits to some degree.

I don't know. That is the view of someone I have been in a relationship for a while, but then he knew it really upset me when the subject came up in the 90's. It is only a problem when all of these things are enough of an issue to make it difficult to deal with life. I haven't yet looked at what the Daily Heil, as one net buddy elsewhere has christened it, yet.

I don't think I am disabled now. There are situations I do find difficult and I am ashamed of how I deal with it - or don't. These could be significantly long flight delays with no information about when this will be resolved. Most recently the metro was not working and as this was the rush hour home, everyone was piling onto all the buses and trains. The taxis were extortionate, I was chilled to the bone and hungry and knew there would be no time to eat before my next student. When I saw what the bus was like I had a meltdown - I can't crowds. On the next bus, little better, a bad-tempered older woman had a go at me and told me to calm down as other people were having to deal with it too. I told her thanx a bunch.

I loathe office politics and finding things to chat about and anyway this is not my home country. The attitude of many people is to assume I can't speak the language beyond beginner level, but that may well be injured ego, as I was supposed to be linguistically gifted once speech delays just after toddlerhood got resolved.

But overall, no I could not honestly class myself as disabled. I could not have borne it if I had really thought I was truly unemployable due to my childhood illness, and feel much happier now I know that is not the case. I grew up with all this horrible doubt and lack of faith, which in many ways was worse than whatever afflicted me as a child itself.  I have had health problems in the last few years due to allergies with house mites and ragweed. So now there is constant inflammation and sometimes asthma, but then anybody maybe could get that.