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>When people describe autism as a spectrum disorder, they generally mean the third metaphor. Yes, but that's not what a spectrum technically is. It's also not
by coldtea 11mo ago
>When people describe autism as a spectrum disorder, they generally mean the third metaphor.
Yes, but that's not what a spectrum technically is.
It's also not a very good idea descriptively, all the various properties people pile into this "spectrum" don't have nowhere equal weight with respect to relative importance to warrant the equal weight they get in such 'diagrams'.
- munificent 11mo ago> that's not what a spectrum technically is. It's a metaphor. A series of bytes within RAM interpreted as human text is not lterally a piece of string made out of some sort of wound fibrous material either, but we still call it a "string".