What is "high-functioning?"

Nov 04

Not “Appearing” Mentally Disabled

When I was a child, people said I wasn’t disabled “enough” because I had an imagination and did not have Down syndrome.

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A list of different ways people use the word "high-functioning" about people with developmental disabilities; an attempt to figure out what it actually is supposed to mean.

Interested humans--people with disabilities, staff, family members, allies, and people who are more than one of those things--are invited to share different ways they have heard the term "high-functioning" be used.

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