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Higher Level ASD - What does it mean

VickiE4

I have a 4.5 year old son who has been diagnosed, as possibly, being higher level ASD. A number of interventions have been put in place and we are now waiting for a review to confirm or not diagnosis. 

 

I don't seem to be able to find information on what HL ASD actually means in terms of lifestyle etc. Can anyone enlighten me?

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  • Original diagnosis in the 1950s of infantile autism (this is way before Wing and the Cambridge Research or Tony Attwood).

    I drowned at 4 but was pulled out and resuscitated; from age 5 until 10 I was sexually abused by a friend of my parents.

    I'm a time served stone mason who joined the army and served 12 years; injured during service and immune system went into overdrive and got arthritis.

    Left army, owned a couple of sole trader businesses and then had a major nervous breakdown and in Bexley for 3 years and another 3 at halfway house, while there started and ran a co-operative of house cleaners.

    Then worked as a bus conductor to overcome a fear of travelling, then an operator in a computer control room, a steel machinist, tool maker and fitter, been a carer.

    Another sole trader business and then declared unemployable so I founded and ran a charitable company.

    Had any number of relationships with women, mostly they break down because I have nil social skills; have been married for 11 years but ended in divorce with my autism cited as the cause.

    In 2003 I was diagnosed as being HFA and Asperger's Syndrome - for me it is a very complex thing and I find the world of neurotypicals to be completely baffling and I go from one minor disaster to the next.

    However after 57 years I have a rhino hide and I just go my way and the rest of the world can come along if it wants to or not. Grin.

     

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  • Original diagnosis in the 1950s of infantile autism (this is way before Wing and the Cambridge Research or Tony Attwood).

    I drowned at 4 but was pulled out and resuscitated; from age 5 until 10 I was sexually abused by a friend of my parents.

    I'm a time served stone mason who joined the army and served 12 years; injured during service and immune system went into overdrive and got arthritis.

    Left army, owned a couple of sole trader businesses and then had a major nervous breakdown and in Bexley for 3 years and another 3 at halfway house, while there started and ran a co-operative of house cleaners.

    Then worked as a bus conductor to overcome a fear of travelling, then an operator in a computer control room, a steel machinist, tool maker and fitter, been a carer.

    Another sole trader business and then declared unemployable so I founded and ran a charitable company.

    Had any number of relationships with women, mostly they break down because I have nil social skills; have been married for 11 years but ended in divorce with my autism cited as the cause.

    In 2003 I was diagnosed as being HFA and Asperger's Syndrome - for me it is a very complex thing and I find the world of neurotypicals to be completely baffling and I go from one minor disaster to the next.

    However after 57 years I have a rhino hide and I just go my way and the rest of the world can come along if it wants to or not. Grin.

     

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