Functioning Labels - Open Discussion

The general thing most people get upset or angry about is who gets to call who high, medium or low functioning ~ regarding each other's personal abilities, when the actual criteria is how socially impaired one is and how much social support one needs.

Deepthought said:

who gets to call who high, medium or low functioning

It's pretty obvious in most cases - one only has to attend autism social groups to see the dynamics and who will need more support compared to others.

Plastic said:

Deepthought said:

who gets to call who high, medium or low functioning

It's pretty obvious in most cases - one only has to attend autism social groups to see the dynamics and who will need more support compared to others.

Of course yes when it comes to social groups involving in-person 'person-to-person' interactions, whereas on the internet it can be a very different state of affairs ~ such as for instance the most capable writers and advisors being very much indeed socially and physically disabled, and when people who are socially caustic get really jealous and frustrated about the other person's popularity and support from others on the website ~ quite malicious insults about high and low functioning can ensue with loads of people getting caught up in argumentative firestorms of fury through however many threads.

Yikes! :-(

Plastic said:

Sorry - I get confused by the way you lay out your posts - I find it very hard to read with the disjointed and multiple quotes, lines, comments, bold and regular type all together.

Apology so not required ~ I was enjoying the discussion with you and was only surprised and question mark over head for moment, if you would like to continue on with it as a discussion, I very much enjoy different perspectives on things, but only in the sense of each perspective being like as if one of the four rectangular or two of the square sides of a cuboid, in the integral sense of what is being discussed.  

I have never though had much or any interest in the modernised ego-cult misnomers of debates ~ where someone or some group is arguing to be right and prove the other wrong, but rather where everybody increases and more integrates their sense of knowledge, understanding and comprehension, with problems having become solutions or discussions to be continued. 

Regarding the "disjointed" thing of my posts ~ it involves in part converting written monologues into written dialogues, as practice for socially reciprocated exchanges verbally.

For the main part though ~ the "disjointed" thing involves the 'fragmentations' of my mind that give multitudinous perspectives and points of view, due to stress induced seizures from the age of 3, and bullying induced Schizotypal Personal Disorder from the age of 11 going on 12 ~ so in a 'Me, Myself and I' sense (rather than the schizophrenic Rod, Jane and Freddy sense) it is actually like a busy cloned geek convention in my body here, so perhaps be glad you only get the summary highlights, and the abridged versions at that!

The "quotation" thing involves being unable to recollect like I can verbally the actual statements written due to dysgraphia (with symbols morphing in my mind like with B becoming 8 and 6 becoming 9 etcetera, etcetera, etcetera), so being able to refer to each word, sentence or paragraph actually as written just above ~ is so very much easier than scrolling up and down again and again repeatedly between the post and reply boxes, with transformations aplenty.

Regarding the "bold type" problem ~ sorted. I always used to by hand write quoted text in a different colour or bold for ease of reference, and on the internet using bold text to represent original authorship as being prominent and mine not so prominent ~ much like on this site's quotations with the bold left-side border-strip. 

Sorry - I get confused by the way you lay out your posts - I find it very hard to read with the disjointed and multiple quotes, lines, comments, bold and regular type all together.

Plastic said:

Deepthought said:

"How very dare you ~ you exepleting this, that and the other; lording your higher functioning superiority over those of us with lower functioning autism for being inferior with our understanding of others, and that we should be prepared to get hurt ~ on a blood-covered support website for vulnerable Autistic people!!! Expleting get a grip you expleting so and so!!!"  

I can't tell if you're being serious or not - if you are, then you're complaining about not being able to walk by a pride of Lions and how dare they eat you. 

Yes I am being entirely serious ~ but your ideological map is not the sociological territory I am describing to you.

I have just been describing other perspectives that have had relevance for other people, and the consequential realities that were involved for them.

This has not been an argument about your perspective nor either a complaint, keeping in mind that the topic of this thread is "Functioning Labels - Open Discussion" and this is what I have been "discussing" with you in terms of what I have borne witness to.

My sincere apologies for giving any impression that this discussion was anything other than objective observation and comparison involving past events. :-)

Plastic said:

Deepthought said:

"How very dare you ~ you exepleting this, that and the other; lording your higher functioning superiority over those of us with lower functioning autism for being inferior with our understanding of others, and that we should be prepared to get hurt ~ on a blood-covered support website for vulnerable Autistic people!!! Expleting get a grip you expleting so and so!!!"  

I can't tell if you're being serious or not - if you are, then you're complaining about not being able to walk by a pride of Lions and how dare they eat you. 

Yes I am being entirely serious ~ but your ideological map is not the sociological territory I am describing to you.

I have just been describing other perspectives that have had relevance for other people, and the consequential realities that were involved for them.

This has not been an argument about your perspective nor either a complaint, keeping in mind that the topic of this thread is "Functioning Labels - Open Discussion" and this is what I have been "discussing" with you in terms of what I have borne witness to.

My sincere apologies for giving any impression that this discussion was anything other than objective observation and comparison involving past events. :-)

Plastic said:

Sorry - I get confused by the way you lay out your posts - I find it very hard to read with the disjointed and multiple quotes, lines, comments, bold and regular type all together.

Apology so not required ~ I was enjoying the discussion with you and was only surprised and question mark over head for moment, if you would like to continue on with it as a discussion, I very much enjoy different perspectives on things, but only in the sense of each perspective being like as if one of the four rectangular or two of the square sides of a cuboid, in the integral sense of what is being discussed.  

I have never though had much or any interest in the modernised ego-cult misnomers of debates ~ where someone or some group is arguing to be right and prove the other wrong, but rather where everybody increases and more integrates their sense of knowledge, understanding and comprehension, with problems having become solutions or discussions to be continued. 

Regarding the "disjointed" thing of my posts ~ it involves in part converting written monologues into written dialogues, as practice for socially reciprocated exchanges verbally.

For the main part though ~ the "disjointed" thing involves the 'fragmentations' of my mind that give multitudinous perspectives and points of view, due to stress induced seizures from the age of 3, and bullying induced Schizotypal Personal Disorder from the age of 11 going on 12 ~ so in a 'Me, Myself and I' sense (rather than the schizophrenic Rod, Jane and Freddy sense) it is actually like a busy cloned geek convention in my body here, so perhaps be glad you only get the summary highlights, and the abridged versions at that!

The "quotation" thing involves being unable to recollect like I can verbally the actual statements written due to dysgraphia (with symbols morphing in my mind like with B becoming 8 and 6 becoming 9 etcetera, etcetera, etcetera), so being able to refer to each word, sentence or paragraph actually as written just above ~ is so very much easier than scrolling up and down again and again repeatedly between the post and reply boxes, with transformations aplenty.

Regarding the "bold type" problem ~ sorted. I always used to by hand write quoted text in a different colour or bold for ease of reference, and on the internet using bold text to represent original authorship as being prominent and mine not so prominent ~ much like on this site's quotations with the bold left-side border-strip. 

Sorry - I get confused by the way you lay out your posts - I find it very hard to read with the disjointed and multiple quotes, lines, comments, bold and regular type all together.