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When High Functioning means that there’s an expectation to be beyond human

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This is not me having a whinge. But does anyone on the forum had or have to deal with the expectation that as they are good at what they do they feel that there is a continued and increasing need to do and provide more and more to suit others.

I sometimes feel that I have just become a high functioning machine rather than human and that the challenging aspects of autism (where I am low functioning) are negated or ignored.

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  • I think that the terms high and low.functioning autism are misused so much they are meaningless.

    High functioning as I understand it, means we are in the average range.of.intelligence, can speak and to a large extent we.can get on.with our lives.  it does.not mean we have super powers or that we don't have problems or don't need help. Being autistic means we are very prone to misunderstandings on both sides of a conversation and may appear very odd to a neurotypical. We have needs to be addresed, can have very confused minds and can be.very sensitive to any form.of stimularion. We may unconsciously stim which is.mistaken for fidgeting, and can get severe.bouts of depression and anxiety.

    Is it not time to ditch such labels and be given help appropriate to us as individuals rather than on a general label given to us as a group?

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  • I think that the terms high and low.functioning autism are misused so much they are meaningless.

    High functioning as I understand it, means we are in the average range.of.intelligence, can speak and to a large extent we.can get on.with our lives.  it does.not mean we have super powers or that we don't have problems or don't need help. Being autistic means we are very prone to misunderstandings on both sides of a conversation and may appear very odd to a neurotypical. We have needs to be addresed, can have very confused minds and can be.very sensitive to any form.of stimularion. We may unconsciously stim which is.mistaken for fidgeting, and can get severe.bouts of depression and anxiety.

    Is it not time to ditch such labels and be given help appropriate to us as individuals rather than on a general label given to us as a group?

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