AUTISM

I Bet You Have No Clue What “On the Spectrum” Really Means

Even The New York Times got it wrong

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I am autistic and tend to take things literally. When I first heard the expression “on the spectrum,” this is what I pictured:

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Then I looked up the definition of “spectrum”:

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This made me think of a line:

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So for a long time, I thought of the autism spectrum like this:

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But I was wrong.