It’s a good start, but I think the reality is that it’s a bunch of spectrums grouped together into one. I would point to all of the tests on embrace-autism’s website and how many of them are measuring different things. On some of the tests I score on the autistic side of the results, on others I don’t.
One area is social cues. The strengths of autism include things like having heightened sense, good memory, systemizing, attention to detail, and pattern recognition. For me I find that all of these things lead to me generally being BETTER than most people at recognizing social cues, and from previous discussions here there seems to be a population of people with a similar experience. But it seems that the majority of the autistic community finds that they are often oblivious to social cues.
It’s a good start, but I think the reality is that it’s a bunch of spectrums grouped together into one. I would point to all of the tests on embrace-autism’s website and how many of them are measuring different things. On some of the tests I score on the autistic side of the results, on others I don’t.
One area is social cues. The strengths of autism include things like having heightened sense, good memory, systemizing, attention to detail, and pattern recognition. For me I find that all of these things lead to me generally being BETTER than most people at recognizing social cues, and from previous discussions here there seems to be a population of people with a similar experience. But it seems that the majority of the autistic community finds that they are often oblivious to social cues.
Yeah, all classification breeds generalization. I’m confident it will get better over time.