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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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  • I was listening to a podcast and they were saying it's confusing as there is kind of two different terms that get a bit mixed up.

    • The spectrum of the actual ASD condition which is like the colour wheel (you can't be a little bit on this, your either have a wheel or you don't)
    • and the range leading up to having it (if you don't quite qualify for diagnosis, you might still have the broader autistic phenotype. (BAP) Siblings of autistics might have this, as they share genes.

    I've been thinking of it like a pic n mix at a sweet shop. Lots of different sweets, lots of different conditions. If you have over a certain number of sweets from the autism collection and it gives you stomach ache, you have it. But the selection you've picked can be different from someone else's. Some people have lots of sweets in their bag and have worse stomach ache, others don't have too many.

    The main thing is people think they can be called a little autistic if they have a few sweets, but this won't give them stomach ache, so they don't really know what it's like to be autistic. 

    I don't know if this makes sense to anyone else though!

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    Yes, you make sense to me. Pic ‘n’ mix is a good example.

    I think the medical model of ASD can be disabling for some autistic people.

    When a person doesn’t necessarily score equally in each diagnostic element, the deficit model of ASD which utilises terminology such as ‘a little autistic’ and ‘very autistic’, reflects our conditions poorly. 

    Even though the wheel isn’t a spectrum in the way Martin describes, it illustrates our strengths and challenges well. Personally, I think of ASD in 3D, as a ‘spectrum’ (diversity!) ball.

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  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    Yes, you make sense to me. Pic ‘n’ mix is a good example.

    I think the medical model of ASD can be disabling for some autistic people.

    When a person doesn’t necessarily score equally in each diagnostic element, the deficit model of ASD which utilises terminology such as ‘a little autistic’ and ‘very autistic’, reflects our conditions poorly. 

    Even though the wheel isn’t a spectrum in the way Martin describes, it illustrates our strengths and challenges well. Personally, I think of ASD in 3D, as a ‘spectrum’ (diversity!) ball.

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