Any High Functioning Autistic people here?
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How about a scale....0-100%
This is what the functioning scales do - the Vineland II and another one that was discussed here a few weeks ago. They don't really deal with symptoms so much as how well you take care of yourself.
You'd have to ask where to put the 100% mark and where to put the 0% mark... I suppose you might use a 50th percentile norm and then use the standard deviation...
But I think that if you want to gauge strengths and weaknesses, the best you can do is just test/evaluate a wide range of abilities, both in real life and in a controlled setting, and find a way to express those in a way that shows just what particular task was being tested, how the person compares to the average, and how the person compares to the levels of that skill expected of the average person in his society.
For example, you might run into a lot of trouble for being in the 2nd percentile on reading ability; but if you are in the 2nd percentile on singing ability, it might not matter at all. Or you might benefit a great deal from being in the top 2% at mathematics, but not very much from being in the top 2% in juggling. Some skills, if you have them at very low levels, will require a lot of compensating for; others will be very beneficial if you are very good at them compared to other people; and some just won't matter very much. It's all about how the world is set up, and what is expected of you.
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I'm curious about the different types of autistic people.
There's this thread http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt111300.html , "AS with dominant Right Brain??".
A person named Callista wrote~
And then TPE2 says~
- rigth/left brain in scientifical sense (where left brain is more verbal and right brain is more visual-spatial)
I'm not sure what visual-spatial is but I think I'd do best learning by hands and visually. I scored zero for auditory for some sort of short learning style quiz. Reading can be hard, and sometimes frustrating, for me too even though I love books and try to read. According to my mom I have mild dyslexia but counselor, who does learning disability screening (or something) doesn't think that's really the main problem I have with reading.
Donna Williams says this here (and also, in finding this reading for it on this page I do come across sentences/paragraphs I don't really understand, I just maybe get the idea of it, but I'm not even sure. I'm not explaining my reading problem all that well, it's that I'm starting to think most people understand what they read in a clearer way. I can't describe it. I felt like saying that. Writing this post is making me nervous.)
What you’re actually asking is whether
a) having Social Emotional Agnosia would reduce one’s ability to be aware of the System of Sensing – yes, I think so, in the same way that if one is born blind one may be unaware of the experience of color except by translating through a system that’s still intact.
and
b) developing highly level compensatory reliance on intellect over intuition/sensing would leave the ability to sense underdeveloped – yes, I think that will generally be so.
http://blog.donnawilliams.net/2010/10/04/2011/
It's the intuition part I can relate to but I can use my intellect too. I'm not perfectly sure what she means by "sensing".
I think I talked on time and there is some talking in my head. But I have a hard time putting my thoughts into words and I have been pretty close to mute in most situations through out my life. A lot of my life not talking in most situations. I was nervous and don't know what to say and partly because talking in depth is difficul in some ways, or tiring. I started talking more the last few years though. I've been told that my conversational style is simply being quiet and then maybe adding something here or there, maybe what I think is funny. and then being quiet and going off in my head or listening. There's some other stuff.
It's pretty frustrating sometimes not being able to say how I see the world and what could be changed to make it a whole lot better, into words as well as I "know" in my head (I'm not going to try here.)
The "right/left" has interested from these few things I've read.
There's this thread http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt111300.html
The "right/left" has interested from these few things I've read.
Just an observation but the second poster has stated, with some confidence, they have AS and "don't" have autism. I imagine it's going to take a while to educate some "aspies" about what they exactly are.
I've recently networked with an asperger who himself is planning to research developmental psychology of adolescents with aspergers here in Melbourne. When enquiring about his project proposal he explained he's only interested in "high end" aspergers not in what he called low end autism. I asked him why? He explained that research funding should be allocated toward asperger kids as they have potential to be geniuses like him (yes he's a little egotistic).
My hope is that this is not a sign of the future where despite DSM V a kind of caste system is developing within the ASD spectrum.
http://sites.google.com/site/gavinbolla ... for-autism
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I was diagnosed with HFA last year, but I can't say I care much for the label; "autistic" seems more pertinent to me personally. As a consequence of being diagnosed with HFA, misinterpretations pertaining to my intellectual abilities regularly occur. I am certainly no genius, and I doubt that I am a man of even average intelligence. In actuality I consider myself to have moderate to severe learning difficulties, which greatly affects my life.
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I still feel the label "high functioning" is a little cringeworthy reflecting some type of hierarchical judgment from an NT perspective
Why not call it functional autism simply saying the person is able to function in mainstram society?
I'm able to function in life for the most part--but I have difficulties sometimes. I've screwed up royally at times.
Oh yeah , clearly they're still gonna have problems , terrible ones at that . I am THAT person but I'm able to mask most of my issues and difficulties and more or less blend in with everyone else .
Funny thing is I'm regarded as a laid- back , chilled out sort of guy and yet I'm the exact opposite but nobody knows ! !
I still feel the label "high functioning" is a little cringeworthy reflecting some type of hierarchical judgment from an NT perspective
Why not call it functional autism simply saying the person is able to function in mainstram society?
Why not just call it "autism" and give up on functioning labels entirely?
And then, when you want to talk about what an autistic person can and can't do, just actually talk about what they can and can't do or the supports they need in as much or as little detail as you want.
"Functional/non-functional" seems no less ambiguous than any other set of functioning labels, and I think it would come to reflect similar types of judgements.
My diagnosis was DSM-IV 299.00 ("Autistic Disorder" aka "classic autism") so I'm a non-aspie type of HFASDer.
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I still feel the label "high functioning" is a little cringeworthy reflecting some type of hierarchical judgment from an NT perspective
Why not call it functional autism simply saying the person is able to function in mainstram society?
Why not just call it "autism" and give up on functioning labels entirely?
And then, when you want to talk about what an autistic person can and can't do, just actually talk about what they can and can't do or the supports they need in as much or as little detail as you want.
"Functional/non-functional" seems no less ambiguous than any other set of functioning labels, and I think it would come to reflect similar types of judgements.
My diagnosis was DSM-IV 299.00 ("Autistic Disorder" aka "classic autism") so I'm a non-aspie type of HFASDer.
I think functional/nonfunctional is reasonable to know if the person is entering the school system or workforce
I still feel the label "high functioning" is a little cringeworthy reflecting some type of hierarchical judgment from an NT perspective
Why not call it functional autism simply saying the person is able to function in mainstram society?
Why not just call it "autism" and give up on functioning labels entirely?
And then, when you want to talk about what an autistic person can and can't do, just actually talk about what they can and can't do or the supports they need in as much or as little detail as you want.
"Functional/non-functional" seems no less ambiguous than any other set of functioning labels, and I think it would come to reflect similar types of judgements.
My diagnosis was DSM-IV 299.00 ("Autistic Disorder" aka "classic autism") so I'm a non-aspie type of HFASDer.
I think functional/nonfunctional is reasonable to know if the person is entering the school system or workforce
I think it is much more helpful to actually talk about the specific things a person needs, for school or workplace accomodations or for helping a person to find a suitable curriculum/school placement or a suitable job/training program/employment support services. I don't think one or two word functioning levels are really useful because they are too broad and non-specific -- they encompass too many things.
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I still feel the label "high functioning" is a little cringeworthy reflecting some type of hierarchical judgment from an NT perspective
Why not call it functional autism simply saying the person is able to function in mainstram society?
Why not just call it "autism" and give up on functioning labels entirely?
And then, when you want to talk about what an autistic person can and can't do, just actually talk about what they can and can't do or the supports they need in as much or as little detail as you want.
"Functional/non-functional" seems no less ambiguous than any other set of functioning labels, and I think it would come to reflect similar types of judgements.
My diagnosis was DSM-IV 299.00 ("Autistic Disorder" aka "classic autism") so I'm a non-aspie type of HFASDer.
I think functional/nonfunctional is reasonable to know if the person is entering the school system or workforce
I think it is much more helpful to actually talk about the specific things a person needs, for school or workplace accomodations. I don't think one or two word functioning levels are really useful because they are too broad and non-specific -- they encompass too many things.
it's a simple system that tells organisation (education or employer) whether the person needs funded assistance, further information can of course be added....
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