And again my point is that contrary to what the article seems to be trying to make, no one really considers Autism a single thing.
And if "no one considers autism a single thing" THEN WHAT IS EACH THING? lol
We don't have a name for every color on the light spectrum, nor can the average person tell you what's different about #FF0000 vs #FE0000. They still exist!
People are trying to point out that the "spectrum" thing is the medical field doing precisely what you're asking for.
It is an Umbrella term that is well understood to be a "spectrum" and well understood to not be the same for 2 different people.
My question though, what is the point of separating it. What do we actually gain from doing so? I guarantee you these attacks will still exist.
I don't have a degree in this but I have to imagine there was a good reason that Aspergers is no longer its own diagnosis.
Still this “everyone is a bit autistic” stuff is kind of absurd. It diminishes the condition.
> most people that I know, including myself, say that we are "somewhere on the spectrum"
No one says “everyone I know is a bit paraplegic”, because that would be insane. Yet people glibly call themselves autistic as if having geeky hobbies or a job in software is the same as being diagnosable as having an autism spectrum disorder.
Again nowhere am I saying that.
Maybe I could have worded it much better but I never meant to imply, it happens that like myself a larger portion of the people I hang out with are diagnosed which for me works with just saying "most people" but I can see why that was not clear.