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.

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. :-)

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. :-)