With every other disorder and neurodivergency, I can intuitively understand the spectrum from mild to severe. But with autism, I don’t even understand how the mild and severe forms are the same disorder.
I’m *vastly* oversimplifying for the sake of brevity, but what I mean is,
***Mild chronic pain:** you are in pain sometimes.*
***Severe chronic pain:** you are in a lot of pain most of the time.*
***Mild depression:** you are very sad sometimes.*
***Severe depression:** you are very sad most of the time.*
***Mild ADHD:** you often have difficulty with executive function.*
***Severe ADHD:** you have great difficulty with executive function most of the time.*
All makes sense, right? But then autism just goes completely off the rails. It’s like,
***Mild autism:** you get hyperfixated on things, you flap your hands, you’re socially awkward.*
***Severe Autism:** you need a full-time caregiver, you can’t talk, you piss your pants.*
What?? How did we make that jump??
I was always curious about this, but then I found out *I’m* autistic and now I’m even more curious.
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