Understanding The Spectrum

stevia333activism:

theoraah:

I hear alot of people misinterpreting or misusing the term ‘autism spectrum’. So for Autism Acceptance week, I decided to make a comic to help explain the term and how it affects things. Archie is one of the reasons I became so interested/knowledgeable in autism (I like to go all out in research when I write characters for comics n such) so he’s the one presenting everything! The rest of the comic is under the cut, because I don’t want to spam ^^;

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as a person who has dealt with gender & special needs throughout my life, i think it’d be clearer to say that with autism each symptom criteria has a spectrum & they interact with each other.

basically autism has several spectrums, similar to the genderbread person (helpful to disseminate information to cisgender people) or gender unicorn (which helps transgender people sort their own stuff out.)