I see what you mean, yes. Educating society about the diversity within the autistic spectrum is a very good idea.

When I recently mentioned my autism to a group I belong to (due to a problem arising because of my sensory issues), I just referred to myself as being "on the autistic spectrum". I don't often disclose my autism. I tend to think more in terms of my specific issues, which is why I liked how you described it as as two-dimensional area rather than a one-dimensional line.

My point about the term "Asperger's" was that the reason why he came up with it as a diagnosis was to identify people who don't fit the traditional profile of autism. But actually, now that I think about it, the categories of levels 1-2-3 make more sense. Just as broad categories within the even broader whole autism spectrum, combined with an undersanding of the variety within those categories.

After all, autism itself is merely a category within the extremely broad category of human.

I got my human diagnosis as soon as I was born, and it looks like it's terminal. Being alive is definitely going to kill me eventually.