Is Everyone On The Spectrum ?

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Do you think everyone is on the autistic spectrum or is there an undefined cut off point. I've read a few articles saying that everyone is on the spectrum and am undecided.

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No, I don't think everyone is on the spectrum. I think there are quite a few undiagnosed people out there, but there is a clear cut off point. When the traits become magnified to an unreasonable extreme and the person has a hard time because of these traits, that's when I would consider it autism. Otherwise, it is just traits.

Can I say both? Everyone is on the spectrum and there is a cut-off point?

It's say it's a spectrum, and everyone has it to a certain degree, but most people it's a small enough degree that they wouldn't be considered to have ASD/Asperger's.

Also, can you enable revoting so I can change my two votes to both yes and no?

I'd say there are many who can relate to autism because they have social anxiety or ocd or whatever. But I think the 1 in 68 (or whatever the official tally is) should be the bare minimum of what qualifies.

My last psychologist said that. Which just meant he didn't think it was important and I didn't get to bring it up. I now believe it is just an excuse for people who should be knowledgeable about ASD, but aren't.

I believe there is an autism spectrum which encompasses people with very similar and very specific symptoms of varying severity.

I also believe there is a "broad autism phenotype" which accounts for most of the people on the "borderline."

There is even a broader group of people who can be said to identify with autism, and who can share common cause because of discrimination on the part of people who are "non-disabled."

In my opinion, what determines autistics from allistics that could relate to autistics is something... Very fundamental. That something is likely not rooted by circumstances and happenings.


When I had anxiety, I surely could relate to several aspies here.
When I conquered it -- in long terms, I no longer did much. I didn't gained the knowledge of counselling aspies. Maybe I lost it along with that constant feeling and need for it.
All I gained is the knowledge of conquering, and I don't know how to share it when I want to.

Yet I'm still autistic instead of allistic with autistic traits and inclination or misdiagnosed and/or maladaptive bouncing back into the social realm and chaotic environment.
Something else, something deeper, that never changed. I have yet to name and describe what it is, but it's definitely something what truly made me autistic instead of allistic. And finding that something made me realized that I could've been closer to autistics in general than aspies.

Too bad. My 'feelings' does not count as evidence.

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"Feelings" might not count as "scientific" evidence.

But I find that they do "count" when it comes to many things.

I believe there is a definite "syndrome" known as "autism." I believe there is a possibility that there are "autisms," caused by different things.

I believe there are neurotypicals who might evince symptoms similar to autism---but they do not have the specific condition known as "autism," nor any "autism."

One has to have been autistic since at least toddlerhood. If a person develops "autistic" symptoms later in life, the person is not "autistic."

It doesn't mean autistic people have to separate themselves from non-autistic people because they have autism.