"Everyone is a little bit autistic"

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Everyone is a little bit autistic in the same way that everyone has a little bit of gigantism.

These people typically says "Everyone is a little bit autistic" are referring to relatable enumerable traits.

And I care not for traits for this very reason.

Traits are not all that makes one an autistic.
Having particular traits do not necessarily reflect living in parallel reality that neurotypicals do not experience, nor actually set one apart from the typical.


Anyone can have autistic traits. Which is why the statement can be seen as correct.
Which is why many would say that autistic traits are human traits exaggerated.

Then just essentially replace autistic with something else, like gender or nationality. Or even diseases or disorders.


But definately not everyone has autistic profiles. One that is part of a larger of the overarcing human neurodiversity, under neurodivergence.

Even the autism community is too hung up on traits, and it's likely because that's how some NTs thought to understand it.

Traits are just byproducts of profiles -- this is the so called grey area that many are referring but is not so grey to me.

Profiles are with dimensions of factors that neurotypicals wouldn't likely able to relate to actually understand living with, let alone for anyone to just replicate, emulate, or even project themselves into...

A profile and a step closer than that can make someone either an autistic or allistic, with nothing in between -- even with many shared traits and how relatable is one from another.

Traits, like symptoms and reactions -- can have very different underlying reasons or causes.

Thus; I really, really care not for traits.

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I take this to mean that whoever is saying it is denigrating the hardships and general experience of autism, i.e "everyone has been there mate, you are not so special", when in reality "everyone is a little bit autistic" is a completely false statement.