

I see a lot of people pointing out how autism is a spectrum disorder, so it would have a bunch of different presentations already.
That’s true of course, but spectrum disorders typically have a set of core symptoms, and regardless of your particular presentation you need to experience all or most of them to meet the criteria for an affirmative diagnosis.
For example, My partner and I both have ADHD; the two opposing classic “types”, (inattentive and hyperactive). There are a number of symptoms that relate to his type that don’t apply to me, and vice versa. We also have different ways we’ve grown up trying to compensate for our symptoms, so they have different effects on us.
Undeniably though, we both experience all 7 core symptoms.
If scientists are making this claim, they must be saying that their research on ASD suggests they found there to be no definite core symptoms.
It would be crazy dumb otherwise to announce their findings studying a spectrum disorder, if their findings were, “it appears to be a spectrum disorder”.😂
Muscles don’t keep you warm in freezing ocean water! Blubber does that.
…Man I wish I had a bulletproof excuse like that.