Hybrid
February 21, 2017, 11:33pm
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There’s a good few posts in this thread which I think nail the whole high / low functioning discussion: I don't understand this low functioning high functioning business
These two being my favourites though, as I certainly believe that it is relative to the individual and what specific area of life we are talking about functioning within.
Person A might be good at functioning at X and poor at functioning at Y.
Person B might be poor at functioning at X and good at functioning at Y.
It varies from person to person and within domains. For me social functioning is the worst.
Low functioning or high functioning is somewhat on a continuum; a continuum that over laps. Functioning or recovering is not a black & white thing, and the level of functioning can fluctuate. as the years progress. We have weird minds and coping skills so we can do certain things well and not other things. In a way, some of us are like idiot -savants almost. Doing impossibly hard activities well, while we are totally lost in certain other easy areas. Every schizophrenic is a mixed bag of tricks with their strengths and weaknesses.
High-functioning can be relative. The first year I got sick I was leaving my weekly support group and when I told the woman who runs it that I was catching a b…
This definitely isn’t a clearly defined matter. I also agree with what @Cj56 said too.
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