kotshka wrote:
D. Symptoms together limit and impair everyday functioning.
Which means that you're limited and impaired in everyday functioning. That doesn't mean you can't be independent, it just means something in your daily life has to be impaired and limited by the symptoms in comparison to age and IQ matched peers without the symptoms.
You might have no friends, but you work and live by yourself
you might have problems with self-care and maintaining relations, but you have some friends and work (but you live at home still)
you might not work, but you live by yourself and have a few friends
you might have friends, work and live by yourself, but only due to allowances made by others
on and on and on
This is what I've been trying to get across. Impaired everyday functioning is not the same as inability to live independently.
04 Jan 2013, 1:48 pm
