“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)
I work in this field and I dislike takes like this, where individuals think they can speak for a whole group.<p>Also this “Having sensory processing issues doesn’t make you “a little autistic.” It makes you someone with sensory processing problems. Autistic people will understand your struggles and welcome you as a fellow neurodivergent cousin, but that’s it.<p>But in order for a person to be considered autistic, they must have difficulty in multiple categories spanning the spectrum.”<p>If someone says that they are ‘a little autistic’ they aren’t saying that they ‘are autistic’, they are just attempting to emphasize. Don’t destroy that by getting into a semantic debate.