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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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  • in reply to Plastic

    I'm the same.  I wouldn't say I was successful (depending on the criteria), but I'm good at what I do.  Very good.  Many colleagues have told me I'm one of the best carers there, because I do the job properly.  But in another situation, such as I was faced with on Thursday, I go to pieces and am a fumbling wreck.  Anyone who looked at me now would see that, too.  I'm a fumbling wreck.  I'm shaking as I write this.  Brought to my knees by what many would regard as trivial nonsense, and the product of a vivid imagination and a paranoia complex.