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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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  • in reply to B

    The "tests" identify a person as being in a separate spectrum to that which neurotypical people overall,

    Within that spectrum there are 7 separate components arranged in a line like in the pictures in the web page you shared.

    Or if someone wanted to they could be arranged like slices of a pie.

    The point is how much of these varies with each of us and in autistic people these things are present more or less.  The overall total added up from the separate components makes one "autistic".

    These values get "messy" somewhat.

    Like interrupting people when they are speaking - this can be quickly "knocked out of someone" behaviourally so that they don't even speak...

    Or say difficulty in tidying one's room - some people go the other way and obsess over it - perhaps because they got told off so much if they didn't...  and this simple thing is so damn hard that they aren't able to do anything else...

    or not being on time...  doing nothing else all day because one knows that at 2 o'clock you have to...

    Or stimming - hidden from other people but when in private, rocking and sucking the thumb like crazy...

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  • in reply to B

    The "tests" identify a person as being in a separate spectrum to that which neurotypical people overall,

    Within that spectrum there are 7 separate components arranged in a line like in the pictures in the web page you shared.

    Or if someone wanted to they could be arranged like slices of a pie.

    The point is how much of these varies with each of us and in autistic people these things are present more or less.  The overall total added up from the separate components makes one "autistic".

    These values get "messy" somewhat.

    Like interrupting people when they are speaking - this can be quickly "knocked out of someone" behaviourally so that they don't even speak...

    Or say difficulty in tidying one's room - some people go the other way and obsess over it - perhaps because they got told off so much if they didn't...  and this simple thing is so damn hard that they aren't able to do anything else...

    or not being on time...  doing nothing else all day because one knows that at 2 o'clock you have to...

    Or stimming - hidden from other people but when in private, rocking and sucking the thumb like crazy...

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