ABSTRACT

Departing from the American Psychological Association's (APA's) orthodoxy, the author have already described how the spectrum is conceived as a broad continuum, which he visualize as an arc, a rainbow configuration, where colours of the spectrum are visibly saturated but then blended, forming secondary colours. We might apply, and even generalize, the package deal to neurotypical children and adults alike, whose personality traits may demonstrate many of the deficits displayed by children on the spectrum, albeit on a lesser scale. The author have pointed out that these symptoms may be so interwoven with varying degrees that it may prove useless to refer to the spectrum child with any homogeneous designation. Thus, for those on the spectrum, the stimulus barrier defends against noxious stimuli for those who may be particularly fragile and variable, who dealt with different thresholds whereby the volume, content and frequency of stimuli can result in the stimulus barrier's being breached or supported.