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Amanda Montañez

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As seen in: Scientific American, PBS, Substack, Spektrum.de, Espanol News, My.BFN.Today
Graphics editor at Scientific American (@sciam). Visualizer of data and other sciencey things. Alum of @MScBMC and @smithcollege. She/her.
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Infografik: So vielfältig ist Autismus wirklich

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By Allison Parshall, Amanda Montañez
| Spektrum.de Verified
Hintergrund Lesedauer ca. 1 Minute Drucken Teilen Infografik: So vielfältig ist Autismus Die verschiedenen Ausprägungen von Autismus lassen sich nicht auf einer einfachen Skala abbilden. Ein Versuch, das Spektrum anders zu erfassen. Autismus gilt als neuronale Entwicklungsstörung, die sich ganz unterschiedlich ausprägen kann. Seit 2013 spricht man daher auch von Autismus-Spektrum-Störung (ASS). Wie aber sieht dieses Spektrum aus?
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The autism spectrum isn’t a sliding scale; 39 traits show the complexity

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By Allison Parshall, Amanda Montañez
| Scientific American Verified
Autism is a spectrum. This metaphor is a helpful way to explain why autism looks and feels so varied across different people. Since 2013 it’s been baked into the name of the diagnosis itself, autism spectrum disorder (ASD). But what does this spectrum look like? It’s not simply a one-dimensional scale from “more autistic” to “less autistic,” which would collapse so much of the diversity that the spectrum metaphor is meant to showcase.
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Rare Diagnoses Change People’s Perception of Medical Risk

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By Amanda Montañez
| Scientific American Verified
As a graphics editor at Scientific American, I spend a lot of time thinking about and visualizing data—including data on medical risks. So when I got pregnant in 2018, I was prepared for things to be complicated. Some of the most common issues loomed in my mind: for example, as many as one in five known pregnancies ends in miscarriage, and an estimated 13 percent of expectant people develop potentially dangerous blood pressure disorders.
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