• Replies 13 replies
  • Subscribers 82 subscribers
  • Views 4005 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Do higher functioning people want to deny lower functioning exist?

Roswell

I think perhaps they do. I would say I'm more on the lower-functioning end of the spectrum. Despite being intelligent enough I can barely make eye contact with people and have no friends where I live, and have never had a proper romantic relationship.

I went to an Autistic social group and definitely felt excluded for having more support needs than the others. I often feel left out on Twitter too. I have 34 followers there, mostly Autistic people, but very rarely do any of them reply to anything I put on. Most of them are more successful than me, have more friends, more of a life, etc. 

It often feels I'm pissing in the wind, getting nowhere. 

Parents

  • I am supposed to have Asperger Syndrome.  A Psychiatrist when I was nine wanted to send me to an Autistic School.  My mother sent me to the State Primary School.  If I had gone to an Autistic School I am sure I would not have fitted in.  Autistic people who can speak quite fluently won't fit in with Non-Verbal Autistics.  I might not be Autistic at all,  I might just have Dyspraxia.   A Canadian Psychologist who tested me in Israel in 1983 for the late Professor Feuerstine Emailed me from Toronto that I have a Non-Verbal learning difficulty on the right side of my brain and thinks I have Dyspraxia and was surprised that I am supposed to have Asperger Syndrome.  I expect that there are other people who have been wrongly diagnosed with a form of Autism but have other disabilities.

Reply

  • I am supposed to have Asperger Syndrome.  A Psychiatrist when I was nine wanted to send me to an Autistic School.  My mother sent me to the State Primary School.  If I had gone to an Autistic School I am sure I would not have fitted in.  Autistic people who can speak quite fluently won't fit in with Non-Verbal Autistics.  I might not be Autistic at all,  I might just have Dyspraxia.   A Canadian Psychologist who tested me in Israel in 1983 for the late Professor Feuerstine Emailed me from Toronto that I have a Non-Verbal learning difficulty on the right side of my brain and thinks I have Dyspraxia and was surprised that I am supposed to have Asperger Syndrome.  I expect that there are other people who have been wrongly diagnosed with a form of Autism but have other disabilities.

Children