Do you think the young man in this film is mild, mod or seve

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Do you think the young man in this film is milderate mod or severe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N8Gca2IlcY

I don't know. I'd guess "moderate" and he'd probably be described as "high functioning."

His need for routine and difficulties with conversation appear to be more intense than mine. That's all I can tell. His behavior during parties, etc. as described is very similar to mine.

"I don't know. I'd guess "moderate" and he'd probably be described as "high functioning."

His need for routine and difficulties with conversation appear to be more intense than mine. That's all I can tell. His behavior during parties, etc. as described is very similar to mine."

I get that this is meaningless but what type of autism were you diagnosed with?

Based on the brief footage, moderate. He may never be able to live completely unassisted, probably has limited employment prospects (but perhaps he can draw, freelance, from home?), but is verbal and doesn't appear to need constant care.

Anyone else scoff when the mother said "aye-een" for eighteen?

That almost all of the interviews are focused on his mother is quite telling, but calling him "moderate" isn't accurate enough, there's a big variability even in the "moderate" section and I find it difficult to place him anywhere in it since almost all the autistics I've seen interviewed/videoed on youtube have been either mild or severe.

"scoff" is the wrong word, more like a giggle, she's like the English version my mother in her mannerisms actually. I'm Irish by the way.

I'm glad you brought up Alex's videos, because it occurs to me that if I were to record a short video detailings some subject; perhaps a brief introduction to the Spanish revolution or schizophrenia, my biggest problems wouldn't be apparent, but I'd definitly make it be known that I'm unusual, I do speak oddly, I have this theatrical often very literary speaking style, my therapists says I'm sometimes shakespearian. It's that speech, a mish mash of big words, posh Irish (which is hard to describe without saying "anglophilia") and exagerated mannerisms, I suspect the latter is due to catatonia.

How do you speak?

Am I using the following character correctly? ;

I'm not sure. I avoid semicolons because I've never quite managed to figure them out.

As for how I speak: It's variable. If I'm talking about my interests, I can talk at length. If I'm trying to hold a conversation, I either go on about something until someone interrupts me or I mostly listen. My therapist told me that when I said I felt like I was speaking excessively and rapidly that I was actually speaking at a fairly normal pace for other people, but most of the time I barely speak at all. She also said that I engage in "give and take" in conversations, but I remember getting off on a monologue and she tried three or four times to make me stop before I finally managed to stop (I wanted to stop and talk about something else, but I had not nearly said enough about this other thing, which was one of my favorite things in the world). Most of the time, the give and take was her interrupting me to tell me something that seemed irrelevant, and it's remarkably easy to derail my train of thought.

When I saw my attorney, I had so much trouble talking I am not quite sure how to describe it. Putting concepts into words was extremely difficult, and I took things so intensely literally that I kept misunderstanding what he was saying. His impression was: "I can't see you functioning on the job."