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I thought that everybody was on the "spectrum". So what does it mean to say the average lives 18 fewer years? Isn't that like saying that people on the skin col
by intrasight 11y ago
I thought that everybody was on the "spectrum". So what does it mean to say the average lives 18 fewer years? Isn't that like saying that people on the skin color spectrum live 18 fewer years?
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- atdt 11y agoThe autism spectrum is a continuum of mild to severe impairment in the domains of social communication and restrictive repetitive behaviors and interests. It is not coextensive with the range of possible cognitive dispositions. The introduction of autism spectrum disorder in the DSM-V was meant to collapse hard-and-fast distinctions between what were previously classified as four distinct disorders (autistic disorder, Asperger's disorder, childhood disintegrative disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder). It does not recast autism as just another shade of normal.
- intrasight 11y agoThere is no 'normal'