Where on the spectrum would you place yourself?

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Now I know this is an open question, so I will not provide any guidelines on which side is more autistic or neurotypical. Just place yourself where you think you belong and I will do my best to correlate the data with information on how many users of different severities respond to polls.

True Cyan

You do not need to respond by post if you respond by selecting an option. Posts should be discussion of why one side may be more of something than the other.

I voted yellow for no other reason than the eye-glasses color which helps my vision the most is orange-yellow. "Irlen syndrome" or whatever they're calling nowadays.

I chose green because you gave no explanation of the color coding of the chart and green was my favorite color.

I should probably explain that it represents the Autism Spectrum. Which side represents severe autism or neurological typicality will be inferred from polls relating to the severity. So far, it seems as though most users are lightly autistic.

Aspie: 127 (77%)
NT: 9 (5%)
Uncertain/Unknown: 30 (18%)

This data is taken from the, "AS or NT?" thread. I should probably conduct a more specific investigation, but it will have to do for now. From the tiny amount of data we have, given that there is a correlation, it seems as though most consider higher frequencies as associated with higher severities of autism. However, we do have only 13 pieces of data, so more waiting should be done.

I just chose the colour I liked best...

I am starting to see a bell curve. It probably is just coincidence.

There is no empirical evidence to support any connection or correlation between the electromagnetic spectrum - visible or otherwise - and Autism, AS, or any other ASD.

But of course. I just wanted to see if there was a tendency to prefer one side or the other. My initial guess was that neurotypicals would tend toward the, "Infrared," side and severely autistic people would tend toward the, "Ultraviolet," side with most people choosing intermediate options.

I may have created a bias by adding the information to the entry for cyan. However, if I change it, the data will become odd if that was the cause.

I hope that you're not trying to trojan in a few posts about "Indigo Children".

That is a nice pseudoscientific pun, if it was intended as one. However, this is a variant of the severity poll. That does demonstrate another possible error to consider.

CORRECTION:
Original: "...pseudoscience..."
Revision: "...pseudoscientific..."

It seems that there is some correlation between increasing severity and increasing frequency, if the distribution I know is correct.

Another conjecture I had was that red would be the severe color because of its associations with intensity. I think this conjecture is false.

I assumed that the far left of the spectrum would be the most severe measure of autism and the far right would be the least severe. Based on that reasoning, I chose cyan.