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I think you missed this excellent article that was posted to HN a few days ago. You are describing a gradient, not a spectrum. Autism spectrum means something d

I think you missed this excellent article that was posted to HN a few days ago. You are describing a gradient, not a spectrum. Autism spectrum means something different. https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/ https://neuroclastic.com/its-a-spectrum-doesnt-mean-what-you... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29682917

Grustaf 5y ago
Thanks for the links, yes I did think that "spectrum" referred to a scale. And I don't know much about autism in general, but it should be pretty uncontroversial to say that programmers and computer nerds are much more socially awkward than average.