Published on 12, July, 2020
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.
To me, high functioning means that although you're autistic, you can function and pass yourself of as a normal ( whatever normal means?????) person most of the time.
To many people autism is linked with low IQ, learning disabilities, epilepsy, downs syndrome, Cerebral Palsy , looking disabled, bizzare behaviour, and. .....
High functioning means you don't display these classic features.
Well... maybe not externally