I dont like functioning labels.

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I hate functioning labels. They make me feel sad for some reason. Im moderate to high functioning according to people. Its weird. Like im apparently not quite high functioning. I have always wanted to have Aspergers or something else instead. Maybe my speech and language skills would be better. I feel very high functioning on some days and some days I have very bad days. For me it seems like I go forward and backwards then forward again. I just want to know what its like to be neurotypical. For one day maybe. I want to not get anxiety from speaking and I want to stop having meltdowns. I want to be able to be completely independent. Sometimes it depresses me

Functioning labels seem inaccurate to me anyway.

I'm right on the edge of high functioning and moderately functioning, some days I seem far more one than the other.
Unlike you, I think I would rather be seen as moderate because i feel I would be taken more seriously.

When I talk about my issues a lot of people act like I'm being over dramatic, unless they are seeing me near meltdown.

I'm currently diagnosed aspergers, but will get reevaluated soon and whether I end up level 1 or level 2 with likely depend on the day.

I don't like them either; they tend to group autistic people into neat categories, when really it's more complicated and everyone is different.

I agree with that. Im a human not a box.

It annoyed me too much trying to neatly box my autism in ways that hindered my thinking of myself, so I keep pushing not to do that. There is a fair chance that I can be independent (with roommates) one day. There are so many more variables to me than functioning.

Yeah, I feel the same way. I want to be accepted for who I am. I want to be able to live fully independently but it might not be a possibility. I get overstimulated and anxious most days and I have a respite worker who comes every Friday. Shes nice.

So then don't use them. They've been scrapped by some definitions, anyways. That's why we now have a catch-all umbrella term of "ASD." And everyone's functioning levels fluctuate some - over the short run, over the long run. I doubt there are very many of us that could say we've always had ~the same functioning level our entire lives, so it's normal to have good days and bad.

In time, through advances in knowledge of medicine, there will be a lot more higher functioning days for a lot more of us. In the meantime, do the things that work to keep you functioning as highly as you can - or at least the things that help you cope & keep calm.

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