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cyberdad
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20 Jan 2018, 5:42 am

B19 wrote:
The attacks on the "high functioning" are driven at the deepest level by envy and resentment and a lot of misunderstanding about the challenges that confront all members of the spectrum.

Fair enough. There probably are some parents in these groups who have lost the plot



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22 Jan 2018, 11:05 am

--& i think, it is worth emphasizing (what most of us already know) that the range of (lower- to higher-) functioning differs in the same person depending on time, surroundings, & circumstance-- which, if it is not the very criterion of AS, certainly one thing in which there is a much wider range than in most neurotypicals.


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