11-29-2007, 08:20 PM
I had some thoughts triggered by this thread. But they spin off in another direction, so I've posted a new thread: Personhood, parenting and diagnostic language
11-29-2007, 08:20 PM
12-30-2007, 12:11 AM
Ando Wrote:
Well, it's kind of unorthodox when one questions the existence of the spectrum.
Clarify this please.
12-30-2007, 02:17 PM
I've been pondering this and believe that the idea of a continuum with "autism" at one end and "NT" at the other has limited utility. This is not a two dimensional world and speaking of autism or neurotypicalism as if there is only one iteration is just silly. Considering that we are considering a behavioral phenotype, the underlying neurology is not necessarily even similar, for NTs or autistics. More and more I see the everyone is entirely unique and the categories are created and recreated according to the prevailing sentiment of categorizers.