What is your level of functioning?
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Maybe you are in-between some of the options, comment your situation.
Based on those examples I would say low. I don’t feel comfortable around others and if I do too much one day (like this Tuesday I had an appointment and then weight-watchers meeting) and the next day I was pretty out of it…Tomorrow I’m nervous about my sewing class I have with my mom at the craft center. We’ve been going a while and I think the instructor is really nice (she’s close to my age and we have a lot in common, and she understands my illness) I missed last week though, but I really want to finish the shirt I’m making. mom finished hers last week but I was too sick to go in…I’m gonna try and go tomorrow though, like I said I really want to try and finish my shirt.
Well that’s more than me, you can be happy about that.
I said high, but I don’t have a job. I volunteer three days a week. I live with my mom, so I see her every day. I would be less well if I was alone all the time.
I would consider that high-functioning
Medium high, I have a job as a cashier part time but that’s about all I can handle anymore as far as jobs go in the real world.
Yeah I shoulda put more options. Can’t change it 
I would say Mid level.
Yeah I’m in the middle somewhere.
I have a job but it makes me very uncomfortable and I rarely go out otherwise. I get most of the basic things done that I need to do. So I would say I’m high in some ways, low in others.
I work and leave my house every day. 2 years ago I was living in my own studio apartment in an apartment complex. It was for low-income people but It was living in the community independently. I was virtually living a so -called “normal” life in my community. I went to work, I had my car, I manged my finances, I cooked, cleaned, and took care of my cat, I took online classes, I made and kept appointment myself, I ran all errands. Well, things change, I moved out and moved into a private room in someones house. Things changed again and I am now living in a board & care home. I am basically still living my old life with all the responsibility and rewards but I don’t have to shop for food or cook or clean anything and once again I am living with disabled people. Living here takes a lot of pressure off of me.
i don’t know… some days I can drive and go in stores and do the regular hows your mum crap with the normies… but some days I cannot leave the couch…
Medium - Low
If it wasn’t for my lifelongfriends, which do not give me away even if myself is not myself anymore, I would just leave my house for visit my family twice a week or so.
Low functioning. I have no social life and leaving the house terrifies me.
I’m fortunate enough to be high functioning. I’m able to work, which involves interacting with people pretty much constantly while I’m there, though I swear the one job has made me feel batshit crazy at times. I get through it, though, for the most part. Even on days off, like today, I end up leaving my apartment and doing something, which always involves some sort of interaction with people. I know I would be worse off if I stayed in all the time; if nothing else, it would worsen my paranoia.
Being a teacher is very high functioning, wish I was at that point.
Yeah, I sometimes wonder if at least some of my students can tell there’s something a little bit off about me. I once had a student write in an evaluation, “he’s a little weird, but that’s ok.” I mean, it’s kinda funny that the student wrote that about me, but also there’s truth to it, the weirdness and all.
Don’t worry about it, lots of teachers I had were weird. Those were the best ones.
A little weird is always a good thing in my book.
I didn’t know whether I should put low or medium so I put low. I see people semi-regularly for medical stuff as I am sick all the time with many things. I don’t think I’m afraid of being around people, in fact sometimes I enjoy getting groceries at walmart. But I have few friends, if any. I don’t know why for sure I don’t have the accumulated friends that some others have. But I do know that my life affords me few opportunities for socialization.
I would feel weird trying to start conversations with random people. As far as places geared towards socialization, in my rural area there are churches and bars and I’m not interested in either one.
I may or may not have one friend. At least if I friend is someone who likes you well enough to be around you when you aren’t in a group. But i haven’t seen the guy in about a year. I got him to say he’d come over when I get my own apartment. But I’m not sure he actually will.
I forgot the first thing: I don’t have a job and I’m sure i couldn’t manage at one. The hallucinations are nearly constant.
APs don’t do their job ?