A spectrum is usually drawn similar to the one on the left. But the point of a spectrum is that its not "where on the spectrum are you"... It is not one point on the spectrum. As drawn on the left, the spectrum represents possibilities. Normally a spectrum would be drawn to indicate how much of each possibility a thing covers.
Eg, the spectrum for light emission of a lamp might be :
Which means it has a bit varying of every color but is heavily green and orange, but probably looks just like white to the naked eye. Swap "green" for "language" etc and you have a spectrum.