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What is your level of Autism?

High-functioning. Sometimes I facetiously say "hyper-functioning" because, good gracious, I sometimes wish my brain would just stop for 5 minutes and give me some peace!
 
Well, my diagnostic report states 'moderate Asperger's disorder', but now Asperger's is no longer in the DSM and I suppose that would translate to ASD level 1. But that's too simple. Actually, my level of autism depends on:

How stressed I am
How tired/overloaded I am
How anxious I am
How depressed I am.
(edit) My environment.
 
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my TR a I TS become obvious when I'm very stressed apart from that I'm very high functioning
 
I'm honestly not sure. Seems too easy to shout "I'm high-functioning!" A term many of us kick around a lot here. Yet our individual traits and behaviors apart from types of autism remain on a spectrum based on those that exist and at varying amplitudes plus or minus.

I have very high degrees of executive functioning and a relatively high IQ. I also have OCD, clinical depression and struggled with social anxiety in the past. I cannot adequately process sarcasm. I can be empathetic, though I may not project it in ways others can readily acknowledge. I lack any sense of envy and jealousy. I live entirely on my own without any support financially or socially. And I have failed in all my romantic relationships with NT women. Social interactions with people in general aren't easy even at times when they should be.

So...does all this truly make me "high functioning" ? You tell me. :confused:

Personally I'd prefer a more tangible "benchmark" of sorts to accurately use such a term. Otherwise I'm forced to say I consider myself a jumble of higher and lower forms of "functioning", whatever that truly means. Frankly I'd prefer to think in more pragmatic circumstances where it comes mostly down to independent living. That you either have it or you don't. But that's just my opinion.
 
Nervous Rex said:
The Real Autism In The System?
Three Red Ants In The Shower?
Those Ridiculous Acronyms I Teach Students?
Tiny Rotating Acrobats Ingesting Tremendous Slurpees?
Twist-Reflecting Axles Incur Torsional Stress?
These Axons Are Incessantly Tired, Sleepy?
Or just "traits"?
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traits that's how iPad speak to text spells the aforementioned word
 
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hahahahahaha
jk. it's below 9000.
 
mild Asperger's, classed as high functioning.

Contrary to popular belief I'm NOT daft.
 
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And like with all seemingly simple questions my brain went into overdrive trying to process all of the possible meanings and answers... (What's the scale? When? Now? Overall? Which traits included? Under what kind of pressure? During which part of the day? From which point of view? Etc. Etc. Etc.)

Grey area, I'd say. Which shade exactly, I cannot decide.
 
I am Asperger's and some days I can hyper function but then other days I need to decompress again.
 
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