Sure, but I found this phrase a bit bombastic: "The spectrum is not a gradient." Good find though, that was probably what sparked the sub-thread. I replied to

Sure, but I found this phrase a bit bombastic: "The spectrum is not a gradient." Good find though, that was probably what sparked the sub-thread. I replied to you in further posts that I see both perspectives. So can now conclude I don't see it as just one way because it depends on your frame of reference / POV / state of mind. Maybe it was pointless when I didn't really relate it directly to autism at first, and I didn't mean to go into a discussion of it being either that or the other in the first place.