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High Functioning: Compliant. Useful for production. Worth keeping. Low Functioning: Difficult to control. Useless to Nazi Germany. Acceptable to take away and murder in Aktion T4 program. Hans Asperger did not create these terms with the best intentions. Don't use them.
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"Low functioning" downplays what an autistic person is truly capable of; "high functioning" downplays our struggles and makes it hard for people to give us help when we need it, because they don't think we need it. AKA, don't use these labels. They're harmful and wrong.
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What terms would you prefer to describe the thing he's trying to describe?
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Oh, oh, could you please clarify what sort of non-autistic you are? Are you a high functioning non-autistic? If so, your opinion on anything doesn't count because your life is definitely super easy. In fact, are you even a non-autistic? My mum is one, and she's nothing like you.
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That's a terrible fcukin article.
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There is no such thing. My son was speaking at 13 months old & fluent in two languages at the age of 4. He is 11 & still can’t use cutlery. The “spectrum” means a range in competences that are impacted. There isn’t a high end and low end.
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I hope that was the point. I hope they were showing the ridiculousness of this trash.
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Not so much "affects Vs doesn't affect" but autism that's co-experienced with intellectual Disability. The two are discrete diagnoses; so in modern parlance autism with/ without ID. Similarly to autism WITH mild/ moderate or severe functional language difficulties.
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