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We're all on the Spectrum

TheCatWoman

It seems logical that if theres a spectrum, then as well as being somewhere in the middle you can be at either ends too, we probably know more about people at the extreme end of ND, but what of NT? 

I was thinking about the HoL reports on autism and the need to hear from ND people, but what if the people compliling the report are at the extreme end of NT? How would this effect the outcome of the report and the support it will suggest offer?

Is being very NT a problem in wider society and how does it manifest?

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  • Being a diagnosed autistic person means you fulfil enough of the diagnostic criteria for diagnosis. Logically there will be people whose traits just fail to fulfil the necessary criteria. So there are people who indeed are a little autistic, but there will be lots of people who are have no autistic traits whatsoever, therefore not everyone is on the spectrum.

    Being very NT would involve exhibiting the opposite characteristics to autists, whatever they may be. I imagine such a person would be immensely gregarious, unable to concentrate on anything for more than a minute, could not see individual details because they are unable to see past the 'big picture', be entirely impervious to sensory disequilibrium, have inflexible joints and have the heart and stomach of a concrete elephant.

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  • Being a diagnosed autistic person means you fulfil enough of the diagnostic criteria for diagnosis. Logically there will be people whose traits just fail to fulfil the necessary criteria. So there are people who indeed are a little autistic, but there will be lots of people who are have no autistic traits whatsoever, therefore not everyone is on the spectrum.

    Being very NT would involve exhibiting the opposite characteristics to autists, whatever they may be. I imagine such a person would be immensely gregarious, unable to concentrate on anything for more than a minute, could not see individual details because they are unable to see past the 'big picture', be entirely impervious to sensory disequilibrium, have inflexible joints and have the heart and stomach of a concrete elephant.

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