High functioning vs low functioning

What is the difference between high functioning autism and low functioning autism?

Parents
  • The circumstances that the autistic person finds themselves to be in - these vary from individual to individual and also are cumulative in effect in my experience. 

    I would add that these are broadly socially defined.  For example, I am perhaps "high functioning" however put me in the Amazon Jungle and ask me to survive and I and those people indigenous to that place might somewhat disagree...

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  • The circumstances that the autistic person finds themselves to be in - these vary from individual to individual and also are cumulative in effect in my experience. 

    I would add that these are broadly socially defined.  For example, I am perhaps "high functioning" however put me in the Amazon Jungle and ask me to survive and I and those people indigenous to that place might somewhat disagree...

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