Published on 12, July, 2020
I prefer to use autism or ASD because I believe high and low-functioning autism creates a false perception of The Autism Spectrum. To me and I imagine many others, low-functioning and high-functioning create the image of a horizontal line with one side saying "most autistic" and the other side saying "least autistic", especially since I hear people say "end of the spectrum."
I see The Autism Spectrum as more of a circle divided with each section representing a difficulty, with the individual in the centre having a variation of difficulties with differing levels of severity to one another. Like someone described as low-functioning may be able to walk through shops with no oversensitivity while someone described as high-functioning can have a higher level of severity in sensory processing that it's too hard and not be able to.
Do you think we should avoid the use of high and low-functioning as they're not clinical terms anyway?
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Yes, because the clinical definition's abusive.
its all in here
www.verywellhealth.com/high-and-low-functioning-autism-260599
Except as I've said in practice its really high or low intelligence that is mostly being referred to when they use the word function. It tends to confuse people.
You can have a person with an iq of 80 who can mostly look after them self, cook, clean etc. Then you can get someone with an iq of 120 who struggles to go a day with out some drama and who struggles to find the energy to do basic daily tasks (because of depression for instance).
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i've heard this take a lot but in my opinion it makes no sense to erase those words because there are distinct differences between autistic people's ability to function and it's useful to know what support is needed
yes please
Some people have no knowledge of autistic people except Rain Man. He was a card counter and some people think that therefore all autistic people can count cards and win millions at gambling. Obviously all autistic people can't do that or we'd all be millionaires. That would be nice!
If you mean "excuse" by "accuse" I agree with her.
hmm rain man was no genius. He had savant skill. I mean savant is short for idiot savant so it's kind of implied general intelligence is low.
Yes they can. Or they think all autistic people are geniuses like Rain Man.
yes people can overact based on previous bad experiences or something seen in a movie etc
whites are the lowest on the totem pole we both know that
The only reason I'd use distinctions like that is to reassure other people e.g. I say me and my daughter have mild autism, so people don't think we're immediately going to start shouting or undressing or something. lol. People often don't know what autism is, they think it's an extreme behaviour so I say 'mild' to give context, hopefully.
if the average isn't close to 100 then somethings gone very wrong. They are deliberately tweaked each time a new version comes out to keep the average at 100 and the standard deviation at 15.
basically anything between 85-115 is pretty normal. roughly 84% of the population has an iq of 85 or more.
probably am doing lol never had a clinical one. without multiple choice though i can see the average IQ of humanity being low double digits lol
only 2 out of 10 of the core tests of WAIS are multipul choice as I recall and they are picture based. Are you sure you're not conflating internet 'iq tests' with proper clinical ones?
and there is another none cultural based IQ test now that is ridiculously easy and i got a score of 150 IQ minimum it said, it said could be more lol it was very easy test of pattern sequences that even a child could do. like a childs slotting shapes into holes game.
i find IQ to be a bad indicator of intelligence personally.for one they always seem to be mulitple choice questions, sorry but if you need multiple choice question you probably wouldnt have even got any of the answers right at all. thus IQ becomes very aided by multiple choice, and even people just pick any options without knowing and get it right and end up with 200 IQ when they didnt know anything really, plus the people that do know the answers, perhaps they wouldnt have known without multiple choice because their memory was too bad to recollect the correct answer but multiple choice was there so that they didnt need to use their brain or memory. without multiple choice even if you know the answer it maybe lost in your memory somewhere, with multiple choice you dont need to rely on thinking or jogging your own memory for the answer.
Actually high functioning autism is a clinical research term that was popular in the 80s. Bluntly if you're doing research on a bunch of autistic people you need a metric to categorise them and IQ tests were that metric, the patients were often children and the researcher didn't want to go around calling the autistic children in their research the high intelligence group and the low intelligence group. So substitute functioning for intelligence and you get high functioning autism and low functioning autism. If you really want to throw the cat among the pigeons why not do away with high / low functioning and tack the IQ score onto the diagnosis.