Comic Redesigns the Autism Spectrum

3rd February, 2017

3 February 2017, Autism, Newsletter, Tip or Resource

[Source: The Mighty]

Rebecca Burgess sees a problem with the way many people perceive the autism spectrum. Her resolution? The comic below. The Tumblr user debuted “Understanding the Spectrum” (below), which gets rid of the linear autism spectrum image (i.e. you’re either “not autistic, “very autistic” or somewhere in between) and replaces it with a round spectrum full of several traits or ways the brain processes information.

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