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> But different autistic people struggle with different things, in different ways. Different asthmatic people struggle with different things, in different ways
by autoexec 1mo ago
> But different autistic people struggle with different things, in different ways.
Different asthmatic people struggle with different things, in different ways too, but it's useful to have a general diagnosis umbrella to cover those who have asthma even though symptoms and effective treatments may vary.
Work is ongoing to get better defined categories for autistic people, but for now at least we've got a category for people that match a broad set of traits/symptoms/challenges to work from.
- XCSme 1mo agoThe problem is that the set of problems is very broadly defined, changes over time, varies from person to person, it's often impossible to obiectively test. Can't it be that a neurotypical person is bothered by some autistic triggers? Would that make them neurodivergent? How many of those triggers do you need to have to be under that umbrella? 1? 5? 20? It is indeed called a spectrum, and I think it gets so fuzzy at the edges that the only way to define where it starts or ends is purely arbitrarly chosen.
- inigyou 1mo agoIt's a bimodal distribution. There are people with few of these traits lightly, and people with many or with a few severe ones. Not so many in between. This already makes it an interesting line to draw.
- XCSme 1mo agoThat's interesting. Are there studies on this? I.e. 1000 participants, "count" the symptoms and make a graph of autistic symptomps/person.