Higher Functioning Aspies and Lower Functioning Aspies

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I'm not much of a fan for all of the "functioning" labels. It's far too hard to quantify people based on a splintered cognitive pattern as the only basis; it's "better" when based on ones ability to need support/care, but that has its own problems.

Using me as an example, I've got good self-help skills, I get by when I'm by myself in my own domain; now, throw me in with a bunch of people and I'm completely incapable of functioning at all: instant LFA (the IQ tests show such).

When I'm by myself I'm...quite "mild", I'm LFA when I'm out and about with people around me.

im confused about whether im Asperg only because i never wen't to get diagnosed. however my teachers all think i have it and i am absolutely shore i have it in my opinion thats enough evidence for me. I know myself better than anyone else knows me. one thing that stoped my parents from taking me for a diagnosis was because two of my elder sibling have lower functioning autism i think they did not want to label me. but im fine with who i am its not a disease i can do things i feel sorry for my autistic siblings through.

im borderline n***a! best of both worlds

I agree. I think that if I could have gotten dxed 10 years ago (instead of a month and a half ago), I would have been lower on the aspie scale.

I remember a lot of things, but one thing that sticks out particularly in my mind is what I would do during church, when I was supposed to be at Acteens (the pre-teen/teen girl group). They would be talking music and boys and make-up, and all that stuff that I was barely aware of, let alone interested in. Meanwhile, after figuring out that we couldn't connect, no matter what I did, I would just go hide up in the baptismal every Wednesday night until it was over.

Today, I'd be able to talk to at least someone and stand it, or I would tell someone that I just didn't want to go at all.

I digress. Autism isn't static. We keep getting better at stuff as we get older. My school experiences taught me survival skills--and that included learning how to blend into the crowd somewhat; a skill hard earned that was expensive for me to learn, in terms of emotional turmoil that I'm still getting through to this day, but it was ultimately valuable to me.

I wouldn't suggest it though.

At home, I'm more aspie-ish than when I'm out. And when I'm stressed, I'm aspie-ish everywhere.

It's not that I think everything needs a label; it's that currently, people who are on the low end of the spectrum are not really recognized of having a legitimate problem. I would probably never meet the qualifications for an AS diagnosis, but I wish I could get a diagnosis of "on the spectrum." I don't need a rating and whatever, just some acknowledgment that I have a form of autism would be a relief to me.

The key distinction between HFA and AS is in brain structure (opposite sides of the brain largely effected) and the issues that go along with that. They are seperate conditions even if its hard for the average person to tell them apart.