Meh. "Spectrum" is either: A very short way of emphasizing that not all autistic people are the same. Any more than all non-autistic people are the same, or

Meh. "Spectrum" is either: A very short way of emphasizing that not all autistic people are the same. Any more than all non-autistic people are the same, or all color-blind people are the same, or all German-Americans are the same, or all grandfathers are the same, or whatever. No matter how addicted most people seem to be to idiotically simplistic stereotypes. or When looking at a particular situation, from a particular PoV - a way to state that there may be a considerable and kinda one-dimensional-ish range in how well various autistic people seem to handle it.