LFA people and meltdowns

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Do the extent of meltdowns depend on how far down the functionality scale you are?

Do LFA people experience really severe ones and HFA people get 'milder ones'?

I ask because I know someone who is LFA and his meltdowns cause him to be ill for days, if not weeks on end.

I'm not terribly "HF" but I don't get outward meltdowns. I just get internal shutdowns.

Well, I have Asperger's syndrome and my older brother has LFA, and his meltdows last longer than mine; they also are more violent than mine.

Being highly adaptive can enable people
to be more in the world than they can bare.

Being un self aware can make ones sensory
issues unbearable thinking they will never stop.

There's no black n white answer......lots of .grey
here

I'm not really sure how to answer this, mostly because I haven't meant very many people with LFA. That being said I am considered HF classic autistic and my meltdowns were SO bad I was almost institutionalized by my psychiatrist at approx 11 yrs old. They were bad my entire life.

Also odd note, my parents claim I've never had a temper tantrum ever. Weird.

I only have mild AS, and I have outbursts that are extremely verbal, and I only have them at home, never out in public in front of people. They only last about an hour or less, and I have a splitting headache after, also have extreme tearfulness, and intense feelings of guilt for upsetting other people in the house.

I've rarely ever had a temper tantrum as well. That's the unfortunate thing when ignorant people witness constant meltdowns: they just thought I was a spoiled, misbehaved child, when in actuality I wasn't spoiled at all and never had a fit just because I didn't get what I wanted.

In my experience of working with children with autism, the "lower functioning" children do tend to have more sensory issues and meltdowns. This might be because they are more easily overloaded, but also because they're less aware of things building up. They don't tend to remove themselves from a situation. They also can't communicate what's bothering them as well as "higher functioning" children, so workers who don't know the children very well may be doing something which is just making things worse, but because they have more difficulty communicating, they can't let that person know that.