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i'm a bit confused on this.

I've heard people say that they have mild Asperger's, but never seen anyone say they have moderate Asperger's or low-functioning Asperger's. Why is this and what would be considered moderate, for instance?

I think that it basically means that their symptoms are very controllable and don't negatively affect their everyday life. Their symptoms are within their control enough to just ignore most of the time.

If they are like me they are people that down-play themselves to a fault so that when we have a migraine bad enough to make us queasy we just try to ignore it and go on with life.

I am not diagnosed, but my child is. IF I have it, I know i have some traits, it would not be worth diagnosing because I feel I can get by with my everyday life decent enough by ignoring some minor issues.

Make sense?

I heard lot of aspies are mild.


Moderate would probably be someone who doesn't function as normal as mild aspies do and it's more obvious they have it than the mild ones.

I don't know. I consider myself to be somewhat moderate.
Can't work. Can't talk to most strangers (selective mutism + social anxiety). Stim a lot (even in public.). Can't use a phone 99% of the time. Talk to myself a lot. Frequent meltdowns. Other various things that may or may not be autism related. Ect ect.

Hmm. I'm thinking I'm moderate to mild then. I'm also selectively mute along with social anxiety, stim in public. Can't attend public school without lots of accommodations, was told I probably can't work.

I'm going to assume someone with low would be like the character in Dog In The Night-Time.

^I dropped out of high school. I was supposed to have accommodations, but they never acted on them. Plus a lot of other sh** the school pulled on me the last year....

I would be considered a so-high-I'm-barely-recognizable-as-a-person-with-Asperger's functioning kinda person.
If it weren't for the damned stimming, inability to keep a job for longer then 6 months and other attributes than can easily be mistaken for sheer prickery...

Wouldn't that be considered an oxymoron?

I'm sorry that happened. I kind of left highschool, was sent to an alternative school-- didn't work out either. So I'm being homeschooled temporarily trying to get back into highschool with accommodations and such. Hopefully it'll work out for me.

Don't be sorry. It was probably one of the best choices I've ever made/ever will make.
I wish you luck on that.

I don't know. I couldn't think of another way to put it. Obviously some people with Asperger's are more severe or mild than others.

I don't see how it's an oxymoron.

Agreed.

I was diagnosed with severe Asperger's. I don't stim, but I have most of the other traits. I have problems keeping my place clean when I live alone. I have gone months eating the same things three meals a day. Hygiene is usually an issue with me. I have never been in a serious relationship for more than three months. Verbal communication skills are lacking.

The terms are vague.

I'm considered 'utmost hf AS' by professionals. That is equated to mild impairment... which is stupid, but whatever.

I don't think I'm mildly impaired, it's just that I'm awesome enough to be hf despite my impairments. Others are milder than me and do not function as great as me.

Anyway, I often feel I'm a lot more impaired in some areas than many people on WP.

So where does that put them or me on a scale of severity?

I also have very mild/non-impaired abilities and some that I have only so far seen as being labelled as severe or/and part of HF classical autism. Does that make me good moderate? I seriously think not, as I think that you can't calculate the mean out of the number of abilities and impairments.

I can't keep my room "clean" (people'd definitions of the word "clean" tend to vary from mine, so...). I have issues with hygiene. I'm in a "serious relationship" but it's an online one, and I have no idea what things would be like in RL. I currently don't know how to cook. I'm not sure I could do anything but the basics anyhow. I don't live on my own, and I don't think I'll ever live all by myself. I don't know what you mean by "verbal communication skills".