2011, Claire LaZebnik, Families and Other Nonreturnable Gifts, 5 Spot (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
I even e-mailed Hopkins to try to get her to back me up, but she wrote back, If Mom decides she wants to kick him out at any point, she will and he’ll be fine. He’s a little spectrumy, but perfectly competent. But so long as she’s happy having him at home, let them have each other. Without any support from the actual neurologist in the family, I gave up.
Dicks’ third book, “Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend,” is due out in the spring of 2012. The book is told from the point of view of the imaginary friend of a “spectrumy kid,” as Dicks describes him. Max is a highly intelligent child who exhibits symptoms that fall along the Autism spectrum.
[…] that anybody who disagrees or overrules Lund is a steaming fool; and anyone who sticks by her, despite her spectrumy behaviour, is clever and brave.
2012, Carrie Goldman, Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear, HarperOne (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Before the school year began, Francine met with the principal and the kindergarten teacher at the school. From the first moment, the meeting was rancorous. "The principal started telling me that Adam sounded spectrumy and needed occupational therapy and speech therapy, and she had never even met him yet. […]
2012, Benjamin Wallace, "Are You On It?", New York Magazine, 28 October 2012:
(Asperger himself seems to have been a bit spectrum-y as a child, endlessly reciting the verse of Austrian poet Franz Grillparzer, to his classmates’ dismay.)