I think that in the future, autism will be broken out into multiple sub-categories. Right now it’s just too broad.
I make the occasional connection with others who have similar profile of autistic traits to me, but there’s a lot of autistic people out there who are wildly different from me and I don’t feel that same connection.
It’s good that it’s called a spectrum already. ADHD is still somewhat viewed as over sugared boys running around while it’s also fairly varied in outward and inner characteristics.
I was diagnosed with ADHD (then called ADD) in the early 90s, so I didn’t get the benefit of being able to recieve a dual-diagnosis until fairly recently. Something I learned during the process was there’s a pretty dang high co-occurence rate between ADHD and ASD. I’m thinking that in the future ADHD will just be considered part of the spectrum.
It’s a good start, but I think the reality is that it’s a bunch of spectrums grouped together into one. I would point to all of the tests on embrace-autism’s website and how many of them are measuring different things. On some of the tests I score on the autistic side of the results, on others I don’t.
One area is social cues. The strengths of autism include things like having heightened sense, good memory, systemizing, attention to detail, and pattern recognition. For me I find that all of these things lead to me generally being BETTER than most people at recognizing social cues, and from previous discussions here there seems to be a population of people with a similar experience. But it seems that the majority of the autistic community finds that they are often oblivious to social cues.
I think that in the future, autism will be broken out into multiple sub-categories. Right now it’s just too broad.
I make the occasional connection with others who have similar profile of autistic traits to me, but there’s a lot of autistic people out there who are wildly different from me and I don’t feel that same connection.
It’s good that it’s called a spectrum already. ADHD is still somewhat viewed as over sugared boys running around while it’s also fairly varied in outward and inner characteristics.
I was diagnosed with ADHD (then called ADD) in the early 90s, so I didn’t get the benefit of being able to recieve a dual-diagnosis until fairly recently. Something I learned during the process was there’s a pretty dang high co-occurence rate between ADHD and ASD. I’m thinking that in the future ADHD will just be considered part of the spectrum.
It’s a good start, but I think the reality is that it’s a bunch of spectrums grouped together into one. I would point to all of the tests on embrace-autism’s website and how many of them are measuring different things. On some of the tests I score on the autistic side of the results, on others I don’t.
One area is social cues. The strengths of autism include things like having heightened sense, good memory, systemizing, attention to detail, and pattern recognition. For me I find that all of these things lead to me generally being BETTER than most people at recognizing social cues, and from previous discussions here there seems to be a population of people with a similar experience. But it seems that the majority of the autistic community finds that they are often oblivious to social cues.
Yeah, all classification breeds generalization. I’m confident it will get better over time.