For those diagnosed, what level are you?

...if you're comfortable saying. 

It occurred to me after just reading another post that maybe my Level One makes some off the things I say on here seem a bit OTT (it doesn't feel that way though!) if the majority are L2 or whatever and have more 'right' (stupid thinking I know) than me to be saying anything. What percentages/ratios predominate on here in terms of all this?

Paranoid thinking maybe, it gets the better of me sometimes. I just got a weird feeling of embarrassment that I may have presumed I belong somewhere I don't. I think it will pass, and thanks for undertanding my posting this even though I can sense it's (I think?) a bit skewed, having come up as a sudden fear that seems to be demanding early closure/external invalidation. My usual issue!

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  • I was putting into words . the reaction that I've had from many mental health professionals. As for average 'support' experience  I think I'm something of an 'outlier due to having a comorbid sz/sz-a diagnosis and quite a  significant adaptive functioning < IQ gap. Adaptive functioning not being up to the level that can reasonably be expected given a person's IQ is far from uncommon with ASD. It's not applicable to all autistic people though.

    See https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.2081 '

    Investigating the factors underlying adaptive functioning in autism in the EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project

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