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This seems more relevant here. https://lemm.ee/post/29731747
left is casual autism, the right is ranked
A spectrum is usually drawn similar to the one on the left. But the point of a spectrum is that its not “where on the spectrum are you”… It is not one point on the spectrum. As drawn on the left, the spectrum represents possibilities. Normally a spectrum would be drawn to indicate how much of each possibility a thing covers.
Eg, the spectrum for light emission of a lamp might be :
Which means it has a bit varying of every color but is heavily green and orange, but probably looks just like white to the naked eye. Swap “green” for “language” etc and you have a spectrum.
As far as I know, I am not autistic. I was curious though and took the test. I am just depressed, among other problems. Also in therapy for that. So that is reflected in the results. I also got the message “Your autism symptoms are low”.
Thanks for the link though! I will forward it to an aquaitance of mine who is wondering whether they might be autistic. They already booked an appointment with specialists in order to investigate that.
Yes, it’s not encouraged for people with other mental disorders to seek autism diagnosis because of how likely those people are to get a false positive for autism.
