are most aspies high or low functioning? and the differences

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it seems the majority of other aspies i met have been low functioning: i think this for several reasons... here is a chart of the differences between me and other aspies i have known, it is not based on research or anything just personal experience. please tell me if you think you are high or low functioning and then explain what the difference means to you.


high functioning : low functioning : has not many friends, no awareness of social
rules,cues and structure, makes inappropriate
comments


cannot obtain employment
normal social skills
maybe minor awkwardness noticeably different from others,may have

grooming difficulties...
at times,has friends and
aquaintances and a relatively
active social life

able to attain and retain a job
minor learning difficulties

...

I don't think that that is very fair. By your standards I'm not high-functioning, which I don't think is true. Asperger's, by defintion, is high-functioning autism.

I seem to be high and low.

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I want to be known as CockneyRebel, Shelby or Mick Avory. I don't want to be falsely known as a level of functioning. More so, if I'm falsely pegged as low functioning, by another member. That's in the past, though. That happened 4 years ago. I don't see what the big deal about presumed functioning is. I have my good days, and my bad days. We all have our good days and bad days. If we could focus on the things that form each others personalities, instead of pegging one another with functioning levels, I think that everybody would be happier both on and off the Internet.

Yes. I think the majority of us would be "both high and low functioning". There's just too much difference from skill to skill and person to person to group Aspies (or autistics in general) into functioning categories.

You can probably group us into "support levels" (by the amount of help we need in daily life), but that doesn't say anything about specific skills. Using academics as an example, it's not all that unusual to have somebody capable of getting a postgraduate degree who also needs intensive/pervasive support, or have someone living without help altogether who'd still fail the sixth grade. So even then, you can't apply any of the assumptions involved with "functioning level".

Asperger's ≠ LFA