Comment on If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum?

• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Vision yes, blindness no.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Vision is the opposite of blindness, no?

    Surely if the spectrum exists for one it must exist for the other?

    0 becomes 100 and 100 becomes zero

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    • ninja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Technical an common language often intersect in logically confusing ways.

      Blindness is on the greater vision spectrum but not all of the vision spectrum is the blindness spectrum. At a point on the vision spectrum one stops being blind and becomes sighted. Think of it like light. Ultraviolet is on the light spectrum and has a spectrum of its own; but not all of the light spectrum is ultraviolet.

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