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Re:“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019) by odiroot on Saturday December 25, 2021 @11:59AM (#29684758)
> The notion that a neurotypical person exists is kinda silly.

Supposedly they don't. Mental health professionals could probably diagnose neuroses or psychoses in most adults.

Re:“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019) by cornel_io on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:57PM (#29685276)
In an N-dimensional system, as N goes up, every member in a normally distributed population is increasingly likely to be at an extreme along some dimension (this is related to the fact that a hypercube's volume is disproportionately close to edges and corners as dimensionality goes up). Even if you just stick to the big 5 psychological breakdown, the probability that someone is in the middle 80% on every measure is only about 1/3, so it's not surprising that most of us are a pretty big distance from normal overall.
Re:“Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019) by whalesalad on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:22PM (#29684951)
I completely agree.