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 ^^;

Last but not least, some explanation for anyone unfamiliar with some of the language used…

Neurotypical = the majority/average brain, in context to this a non-autistic person

Neurodiverse = the opposite, but some people use this term to refer to more then just autism, things such as dyslexia, adhd etc.

savant skills = being extremely good in one area of thinking, I guess the most common one is being extremely good at math and having a perfect memory.

Also, my depiction of ‘the spectrum’ is simplified (to be used as a starting point/simple explanation), if you look into it there are alot of different traits or factors that make up the spectrum!

Edit: Loads of people have asked if they can have a print version of this comic so they can share around schools/family/friends, so here’s a high quality print version (pdf):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/aaz1h8b83qt46zz/thespectrum.pdf?dl=0



I fixed the spelling mistakes too, thank you for pointing them out XD Thank you sooo much for sharing around, I’m real happy the comic has been helpful/been so well received!