i have level 2 autism

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Level 2: “Requiring substantial support”

Individuals with level 2 autism spectrum disorder experience marked deficits in verbal and nonverbal social communication skills. Their social impairments are apparent even with supports in place. These individuals rarely initiate social interactions and experience reduced or abnormal responses to social advances of others. Individuals will often experience the following behaviors:

Inflexibility of behavior
Difficulty coping with change
Restricted/repetitive behaviors which are obvious to the causal observer and interfere with functioning in a variety of contexts
Some distress/difficulty in changing focus or action

Level 2 also.

Rise of the Level 2s (think Star Wars: The Clone Wars).

[...just kidding]

Diagnosed level 1 for fluent speech. "Social deficts apparent even with supports in place...
experience reduced or abnormal responses to social advances of others."

I experience regularly:
Behavior inflexibility
Restricted/repetitive behaviors are obvious to the causal observer


My 'combined' severity of autism is moderate-severe or borderline severe.

I was never given a level, but I'd probably be level 1.

I'm assuming you're going off the scale that goes from 1 to 3, right? There's also one that goes from 1 to 5. I'm level 1 on both.