Re:Autism and gender imbalance in tech
by gizmo686 on Sunday August 06, 2017 @05:48PM
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I think you are getting into a map/territory issue.
We think of it as a spectrum because we observe a spectrum among people with diagnosable autistic disorders.
However, we do not have a fundemental understanding of what autism is, or a binary test to detect it. This would imply that in reality there is a spectrum that extends beyond the diagnosable region(s) we have.
We think of it as a spectrum because we observe a spectrum among people with diagnosable autistic disorders.
However, we do not have a fundemental understanding of what autism is, or a binary test to detect it. This would imply that in reality there is a spectrum that extends beyond the diagnosable region(s) we have.