What is "high-functioning?"

Dec 06

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http://nostereotypeshere.blogspot.com/2011/12/functioning-labels-and-meaning.html

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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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