We are grateful for the careful thought that Chown and Leatherland (
2020) have given to one part of our article in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry looking back over 30 years of autism research. They highlight a topic of much current debate: whether autism lies on a continuum with non-autism or ‘neurotypicality’. This is part of a wider discussion of whether neurodevelopmental and other conditions should be conceptualised dimensionally or categorically. …
