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

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From the 'Daily Mail' for less specialised readers:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3502928/EVERY-one-autistic-spectrum-experience-key-symptoms-just-varying-degrees.html

With 1 one scientifically accredited source, as being from the scientific journal 'Nature' ~ for more specialised readers:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nrg.2017.4

With 177 scientifically accredited reference sources.

[Updated with the second source at approximately 18:07 ~ on Friday the 30th March, 2018.]

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  • 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.

  • in reply to Trainspotter

    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.

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  • in reply to Trainspotter

    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.

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