What is "high-functioning?"

Dec 05

Can buy coffee

I met someone for coffee and he said “You’re the highest-functioning out of all the high-functioning autistics I’ve met.”

All he had seen me do at that point was buy coffee.

  1. mommy-cuteella reblogged this from whatishighfunctioning
  2. street-howitzer reblogged this from anglepoiselamp and added:
    I’m sorry. *offers hugs, if they are needed/wanted* That happens to my girlfriend, too.
  3. anglepoiselamp reblogged this from street-howitzer and added:
    barely… I’ve...by a psychiatrist...I can’t have...
  4. Emily submitted this to whatishighfunctioning

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.

Submit
Archive | RSS | Random

I heart Tumblr

Plaid Theme by David Kang