Does the Spectrum End?

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I think the line is more like a brick wall. If you understand people and their intentions, gestures ect. very well and you can make and keep friends and have no problems with this then your not an aspie. However, If you have problems with anything I mentioned your somewhere in the spectrum. And once your in the spectrum its as broad as a percentage for example. (IE this man is 100% autistic. That women is 22% autistic. It just all varies, of course this is all my opinion

I don't know about that, Mindovermatter. One thing I notice is that people polarize a lot on these forums. Lots of people do have problems making and keeping friends, even those off the spectrum. Some people treat others like crap all the time and this keeps them from keeping friends.
Cause and effect.
Happens all the time. Aspies aren't the only ones who have problems keeping friends.
Their reasons for not keeping them might be slightly different. Isn't the result the same?

Not just making friends even communicating. Its developing that rapport were the problems come into play. If people with social anxiety smoked some weed or took a xanax they would be able to make and develop rapport. A person with autism isnt "anxious" around people they just dont know what to say to them.(for me at least)

edit: okay I see what your saying, f**k I dont know people are people I guess. One of my sisters accuses me of being a hypochondriac. lol. She is right but back to the topic. There is a fine line between a person being "in the spectrum" and outside of the spectrum. Whether you think I'm just polarizing the issue or not is besides the point. Autism is an alien disorder that cannot be identified in your everyday person.

or maybe it can, then again, we can all be a little mentally ret*d at times dontcha think? everyone portrays schizophrenic tendencies too wouldnt you say?(just look at all the conspiracy theories, and the people on the 9/11 is an inside job bandwagon)

Autism Parallel Universe topic

I used to think of the spectrum as a line, with starting and end points, with one side labeled NT and the other Autistic. Both ends were the extremes, much as Callista described.

Now I think of it as a Universe, no beginning, and no end. It just goes on and on, into infinity. Why? Because human beings are dynamic creatures, even if NT, and are subject to change (do not read cure), and so the whole thing is fluid and constantly changing shape, orientation, etc., much like a kaleidoscope, to put it visually.

I think of it this way so as to understand that everyday is a whole new experience and we are not bound by rigid rules, though there are tendencies, trends and some similarities, but nothing stagnant.