It's a Pie, Not a Line

Julia commented on a previous post where I'd implied people with autism are all hypersensitive.  (Thanks, Julia, I added a note to that post.)
–––They replied:

"Clarifying the autism sensory stimulation thing.
Ime (inc talking with lots of other autistic people), we're not all hypersensitive.
Some of us are hyposensitive (raises hand).
Some might be hyposensitive in one sense and hypersensitive in another, or have very specific sensory preferences (think inability to deal with seams or tags in clothing, heightened sensitivity to specific noises, textures, or flavors).

"One of my autistic pet peeves is flattening autistic people to the hypersensitive ones when the truth is more that we don't process sensory stuff in the same ways as neurotypical people, and so we fall in all sorts of strange places on the sensory bell curves."

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Similarly, I'm seeing pie charts--an autism wheel to show how one individual experiences autism––replacing the depiction of the autism spectrum as a line that progresses from "easy" to "hard", or "less" to "more".
Autism is not one thing.

"The pie chart model, or autism wheel, also acknowledges that autistic people's symptoms may change and develop through time, and allows for a fluid development over the life span."
--"From Autistic Linear Spectrum to Pie Chart Spectrum", by Claire Jack, Psychology Today, August 2022