What is "high-functioning?"

Dec 05

Claiming Disability

“You are probably the most high-funct- “

“NO.”

This from people who once said I would always be mentally retarded and could never function.  Why say the opposite?  Because I was saying I qualify for disability benefits.

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    Eeyup.
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    The double-edged sword of ableism, right?
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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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