are you low functining autistic/high funcitining autistic ?

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Are you lower functining autistic or higher functining ?

i am more lower functining.
but some pepole dont understand how i am able to draw pictures and type .
i am not very verbal and have difcult have meltdowns that involve self injury i mean.
i panic without headphones especialy when outside

IQ score is the only thing that denotes whether one is low or high functioning.

Mild, moderate and severe are better terms, though they're still misleading in that you might have one part that's really severe but the rest mild. It's too hard to tell objectively. Perhaps how much support you need is a better way to go.

Using how much support I need and in comparison to my nephew [who needs a lot at school where I needed none], I'll go mild, as apart from needing a disability pension [due to being unable to work like normal people], I can look after myself well enough with a routine.

my autism is moderate. I think I am high fuctioning.

On the DSM-4 scale im high fuctioning with some low fuctioning behavioures, it just depends on the day to me. On the proposed DSM-5 scale I fall in between leval 1 and leval 2.

I really dislike the high functioning/low functioning distinction, because it is just not descriptive enough to get any amount of information across.

However, in the proposed DSM-5 severity levels, I fall between levels 1 and 2. Nobody sees me without support so its hard to get a real judge of where I'd fall on that, but its definitely more than level 1, and definitely not more than level 2.

I am about the only one on wrong planet who likes the labels.I like them because they give you a general idea how "autistic" a person is, though I don't think they should be used as a black and white think. I'm not sure, I have the meltdowns at the lowest functioning level, however, I am high functioning on every other level. So because there is only one thing that makes me low functioning, I'd say I'm high functioning because I would be able to pass as NT very easily without the meltdowns.

I am definitely high-functioning. I have a lot of respect for low-functioning autistics. In fact sometimes I feel like a "fraud" when I consider how much more severe my condition could be.

I am high-functioning. I have mild AS, I can hide my AS, I understand body language and other non-verbal cues, I am interested in people, my special interests are based around social interaction, I am good at knowing other people's intentions, and I can just easily pass off as just a shy, meek NT. I may act a bit odd in front of a few people but not enough to suspect an ASD. I am not going to tell them about my ASD, so they'd just have to put up with it.

I can do things for myself, although I do need some support because I am quite a slow learner. I can cook (if I learnt), clean, wash myself, and do anything else that anyone else can do. And I can go out and about on my own, just my Social Anxiety holds me back, which is disabling but in a different way. I CAN do these things, but not without therapy, which is what I'm getting.

High/low-functioning labels are meaningless. You can see examples on this thread; people don't know exactly what they mean--and it's not because they're ill-informed, either. It's because every doctor you meet will have a different definition of them. There is no official definition for those terms, and if you use them, you have to clarify what you mean by them every time.

You can go by GAF, which is a 1-100 scale that shows exactly how you are coping right now in your daily life. On the GAF scale, I range anywhere from the 20s to the 60s. Right now I am in my usual spot in the mid-50s, which is common for disabled people in general.

You can talk about how good someone is at communicating--whether they can communicate sometimes, always, or communicate some things but not other things--like being able to answer questions but not spontaneously explain something that they are thinking about. On that scale, I am toward the more skilled end, able to speak almost all of the time, read and write all of the time unless in complete shutdown, start conversations on my own, and make up my own sentences fast enough to participate in a normal-speed conversation with up to two people at once.

You can talk about how good someone is at taking care of themselves, all the way from things like remembering to eat, to doing your own laundry, to earning money for yourself. That's not a one-dimensional scale, either--some people who can work might still be reminded to eat, for example. Me--well, I can't work yet; but I can't go to school. I can do my own self-care and don't need an aide, but it took me until my late teens to learn, and it still takes more time than it does for most people. I can clean my own apartment. I'm still routine-dependent for all of it, but the routines work, so why complain?

Those things don't really go together. There are people who can take care of themselves but not talk; people who have a low GAF score who are employed. Each case is different. Most people on the spectrum could probably be called "high-functioning" by some criteria and "low-functioning" by others. And it's even worse that lots of people think that "HFA" and "LFA" are official diagnostic labels that can be used to predict things about a person. They can't--but that doesn't stop people from hearing that you are one or the other and making assumptions that often aren't true.

Functioning levels, are meaningless. There's nothing you can say with functioning levels that you don't have to clarify afterward to make sure you're not misunderstood.