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The existence of severe cases does not mean less severe cases don't count.

• albertopv 4y ago
  I didn't mean that, I mean they should count differently. An autistic guy you couldn't literally touch without him screaming can't be counted in the same class of autistic people that social interact much more.
• spywaregorilla 4y ago
  Maybe. Calling it a spectrum is an accurate term, and thus, pretty much everybody is on the spectrum. It's not a one dimensional spectrum of course, but like... I'm probably a high functioning aspie. Prone to obsessions, highly temperature sensitive, didn't really grok some basic aspects of socialization until I manually learned some social rules in high school. But it's not severe enough to be noteworthy and you wouldn't think anything was categorically different unless you were thinking within that framework already. Just a bit geeky really. The issue comes in when people want to contextualize it as a disease as an implied bad thing.