High Functioning

As far as I am aware I don't mask. Not consciously,certainly. If you can mask you're more likely to be seen as 'socially acceptable' in  comparison to someone like myself . From very many posts I've read though that 'social acceptability ' can come at a heavy price.

The more I read posts here the more I feel alienated and out of sync. Perhaps it's because of the additional schizoaffective diagnosis. I'm not severely disabled re the autism, not level 3. On the other hand I'm not a high achieving, in spite of the autism, person. I'm somewhere in that vast centre that, comparatively speaking, tends to get ignored.  

I seldom see the term 'adaptive functioning' mentioned here. Adaptive functioning often being at a level significantly lower than would reasonably  be expected given how intelligent a person is. That's a major area where a person  can be intellectually high functioning, and yet still need a substantial degree of support.

As far as I am aware I don't mask. Not consciously,certainly. If you can mask you're more likely to be seen as 'socially acceptable' in  comparison to someone like myself . From very many posts I've read though that 'social acceptability ' can come at a heavy price.

The more I read posts here the more I feel alienated and out of sync. Perhaps it's because of the additional schizoaffective diagnosis. I'm not severely disabled re the autism, not level 3. On the other hand I'm not a high achieving, in spite of the autism, person. I'm somewhere in that vast centre that, comparatively speaking, tends to get ignored.  

I seldom see the term 'adaptive functioning' mentioned here. Adaptive functioning often being at a level significantly lower than would reasonably  be expected given how intelligent a person is. That's a major area where a person  can be intellectually high functioning, and yet still need a substantial degree of support.