Just curious to meet fellow autistics
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Im level one i believe. I hqvent been diagnosed yet but in pretty sure
Damn. There’s levels to this stuff?
I would like to be lvl 99
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level 3 means severe autism
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Maybe wrong place for that. Wonder how many here are diagnosed and given levels at that?
Yeah probably. Sorry
i was diagnosed with ASD but they never said a level though, at least i don’t think so.
Asperger’s, now lamely known as Level 1 autism over here.
My formal diagnosis is Asperger’s Syndrome, high functioning.
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I was semi diagnosed with Autistic traits. it didn’t go much past there. I know people with Aspergers (now ASD) who are very intelligent but couldn’t function in every day settings especial around social interaction and they can be quite intense.
I AM NOT INTENSE.
Well, not all the time.
Oops.
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I’m in the UK… We don’t have levels. My social communication was classical autism level and my social interaction Asperger’s level. In that situation you’re dxed with Asperger’s.
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They keep changing how it’s classified I guess. People don’t like the terms severe vs mild (which i can understand, an experience may not seem mild to the person having it at all even if it may be comparitively to someone else), or high functioning vs low functioning (i genuinely don’t understand why people find that one offensive) so now theyre using levels. All different terminology for the same stuff. Sigh.
I’ve pondered on and off if I’m autistic. I do have a lot of autistic traits. But honestly i think it is more due to my mental illness than due to something like autism, as there is some overlap.
I think people with Asperger’s aren’t necessarily ”high functioning” even when their IQ is above average
To me the levels make more sense because they are about support needed
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In the UK they don’t like using low/high functioning for people with SZA/SZ too.
Well for me I’m pretty much stable with the SZA. I’ll continue to have support from intellectual dsiability services and community nurse for the Attachment Disorder as they want me to remain stable so I won’t lose that support or my 21 hours one-to-one support a week I’m provided. Even if I continue to go on holidays abroad, its about keeping and maintaining me stable. My community nurse said this.
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IQ has nothing to do with functioning though. If you can hold a job, live independently, and are able to communicate your needs, you are high functioning. That’s how it is discussed in my profession anyhow.
I fail to see how a person who can live on their own and provide for themselves and communicate their needs (ie say when you are hungry, thirsty, in pain, I’m not just talking about being charismatic) is on the same level as someone who cannot communicate or has extreme difficulty to the point where even people very close to them may have trouble understanding or they even self harm out of frustration, have miminal control over their behavior to where they could never live safely independently or hold a job, etc. I don’t know I am very open to hearing the other side of that argument.
High functioning originally meant autism with an IQ over 70 and low functioning under 70.
Ah I see that’s interesting. From personal experience though I have seen dumb people that function perfectly fine and very smart people who can hardly function so I think that’s a ridiculous way to classify functioning. I am not a fan of IQ in general though I think it is quite a flawed measurement.
I must be low functioning. I don’t live independently as I’m in a 24/7 staffed group home with other people with disabilities. No control over my finances or what medication I take. My IQ is tested at 69. I do feel hight functioning though, more than some people I attend the day centre with who are blowing raspberries in the corner head banging, At the day centre it pees me off when its said people at that level of functioning are my peers as I attend the day centre with them.
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