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Oyez, oyez! Calling all "high functioners"!

Deleted User

...Autism is a spectrum and everyone is different. What characterises a diagnosis of autism is if it has an impact on ones daily life. I am classed as "high functioning" but currently do not know what this means.

Overload as a result from doing less than what someone who is not autistic can do. This means currently bare minimum of activity because intolerance and sensory input cannot be regulated. 
Working hours are reduced because of the struggle to cope with full time even though preference is to work more. The load is primarily from executive function difficulties which also include the social aspect and sensory. Fatigue on a daily basis which impacts everything.

So, when people make throwaway comments like "we're all a bit autistic" or "I think my dog is a bit autistic" (yes, I was present), or labels like "high functioning", or someone gets imposter syndrome thinking they are "not autistic enough", just remember - the difficulties faced - on a daily basis - which many people do not face.

I'm not saying no-one else has problems, but they are of a different kind.

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  • in reply to Deleted User

    I wish people would stop comparing people to computers, I don't understand what the "k's" mean anyway, I know the dictionary definition, but it dosen't help explain why I have phemonenal memory for somethings and almost none for others.

    I think I really need to look at what additional support s out there, I was never given any idea of that when diagnosed, in fact it wasn't until I came on here that I knew such things existed.

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  • in reply to Deleted User

    Everything in my life turns into song. Most of my threads descend into pleasant chaos (processed meats and inertia anyone?). Now I've got Afroman "I Got High" in my head.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    I hear you sister........ALL good my end.  You are my true kin.

  • in reply to Deleted User

    Ahh, you were having a giraffe! If we were face to face I'd probably of picked that up, its one of the problems with written communications, theres no facial expressions, no tongues in cheeks, wry grins etc.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman

    Well, in fairness.....I wasn't comparing nowt to nowt.....I was "having a larf" as they say on the telly.

    To be honest with you, I have a similar competency with "computer speak" to you.  I know that a byte is a single tiny-weeny piece of info = therefore a "k" of that means a 1000 of them........but thereafter, I have no competency......whatsoever = AND, I'm quite content with my subsequent lack of knowing = rare for me!!

    I am sorry if my sense of fun / (light relief from the brewing storm about what HIGH [technically] means in relation to autism....or if we are even allowed to say HIGH [technically] anymore in relation to autism......personally......I don't give hoot either way.....[but - as we must always now say, when we dismiss things that aren't important to me, but may be VERY important to others = I mean no disrespect by my dismissive approach to the wording of that specific topic]

    I'm "beyond support".....no matter what is out there.