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

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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