Colours of the Spectrum

[hedgehog]

It might sound silly, but when I first found out about the "spectrum", I sort of imagined it as a paint chart with graduating shades of colour. I visualised it as running from deep burgundy at the most extreme LFA end through to cream with a hint of pink. When my daughter was dx'ed HFA I sort of visualised her place on the spectrum as rose pink with small spots of lavender.

If you were to choose your own spectrum "paint chart" what colours would you imagine, and what would be your personal "shade" ?

[Alias Pseudonym]

As for the spectrum, I always thought of it as going from yellow to deep blue. As for colour, you get three guesses and the first two don't count.

[Eponine]

As for the spectrum, I always thought of it as going from yellow to deep blue. As for colour, you get three guesses and the first two don't count.

Same here, with blue as the LFA end. I envision myself somewhere between #99FF00 and #CCFF00 on a color chart.


Edit: I tried to make the text the colors I wrote, but it's hard of the eyes

Chart for reference: http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/TBI/hex_color_chart.png

[Tigger_the_Wing]

As for the spectrum, I always thought of it as going from yellow to deep blue. As for colour, you get three guesses and the first two don't count.

Same here, with blue as the LFA end. I envision myself somewhere between #99FF00 and #CCFF00 on a color chart.


Edit: I tried to make the text the colors I wrote, but it's hard of the eyes

Chart for reference: http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/TBI/hex_color_chart.png

I see what you mean about the colours being hard to look at!

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I imagine the spectrum as a colour wheel chart - I am on different colours for different abilities and at different times!

[andrew_w]

I see what you mean about the colours being hard to look at!

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I imagine the spectrum as a colour wheel chart - I am on different colours for different abilities and at different times!

That is somewhat like my model of the spectrum - sets of traits, instead of a one-dimensional line based on "functioning level" (which is a concept of somewhat questionable usefulness). If I'm going to reduce the spectrum to one dimension, I would base it on predominances of traits, with a region of autism on one side, a gray area in the middle, and a region of allism (the base neurotype of neurotypicals) on the other side. Where someone falls on this line is determined by which set of traits predominates (someone with no clear predominance would fall in the gray area).

[Saeihr]

I also found it intriguing that Colour falls in a linear pattern on the EM spectrum, and yet Colour can be arranged in a circular pattern with no breaks.

[hedgehog]

Andrew and Tig. I think that's a much less clumsy concept. I was sort of aiming at that with the "spots", but it works much better with your charts as a non-linear concept, with moveable points.

[KiltAudilla]

Edited to remove derail!

[Chosen]

I just joined this sweet place..?..

[Chosen]

KiltAudilla is a spammer... should be banned