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Edit: Score around 60

Last edited by alba on 26 Mar 2009, 6:45 pm, edited 1 time in total.

The last time I had it done, it was 60. But that was 2 1/2 years ago. Since then, I have found a medication (Anafranil) that works for me, so I'd say that my GAF would now be around 70.
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ive gotten scores from 40 to 55.

31 to 33, as of Callista's second link.

I've been around that level for the past 10 years, with it dipping to 21 and lower in some bad periods (psychiatric hospitalization).

I read that most people with HFA/AS score below 50.

None of you have ever seen a GAF rating chart have you? . If a person scores below 40 they are considered unsafe to have loose in society and at a certain level its a legal requirement to lock them up in a psychiatric ward. In the 20-30's range is I believe where feces smearing is a requirement as well as hallucinations. Below 40 includes impairment in communication so none of you that posted a reply are in the 40's or below or else you couldn't write anything that made sense. Anything below 50 is seriously bad where you can have freedoms taken away. You actually don't want a GAF below 55 unless you want to go to the state hospital and be drugged and possibly beaten and raped. Some of you are pathetic trying to seek attention by wanting or claiming super low GAF scores. If you're GAF is that low you can't even be an Aspie and would have to be Kanners or even ret*d or psychotic.

Ticker, mine is based on:

Doesn't say anything about being unable to communicate. I have Kanner's, of course. This is probably a normal level for someone with HFA; as I said, most people with AS or HFA are under 50.

I think I'd be 51-60.
It's hard to know because I don't work, so how would I know how much difficulty I'd have with it? I did have a lot of problems with keeping up with school work though. I don't have many close friends.
I have some serious mood swings too.

HAHA. A post on GAF. I love it.

My GAF goes way up and down, depending.

Lowest in hospital was 30 something, not 20 because they use like mearing feces as the 20's and I never did that! But my friend who has an IQ of over 170 did, so smart peple can get stressed and do s**t like that. No pun intended.

A single suicide attempt will put you in the 1 to 10 category at that time.

That can simply be from clinical depression. There's a lot to it.

I don't think I'm normal enough to fit that. I would meet:

2 of 81 - 100, 1 of 61 - 70, 2 (sometimes 3) of 41 - 50, if not the 3rd of 41 - 50, then sometimes 1 of 51 - 60, 1 of 21 - 30, 1 of 11 - 20

Which is probably impossible to rate I think.

It is a rating based on the moment... I am steadily in the 40-60 range.

My GAF was done by a nurse practitioner. I think whoever wrote about feces smearing and nonverbal behavior was thinking about a different scale, because I have looked at the GAF and there is nothing in it about either. Maybe the person had GAF confused with IQ or something?

IQ has nothing to do with smearing either, I happen to know someone with a high IQ whose parents claim he did that once when he was younger.

I don't see impairment in communication at all on the second link Callista gave us.

That impairment is implied by other things listed.

You don't have to be impaired in ALL those areas. Just some. And some things will automatically put your score at some maximum.

For example, someone who is completely socially isolated--that is, has absolutely no friends--and has no other impairments gets an automatic maximum score of 50. (Which would be me, at the moment. Despite the fact that I'm functioning way better than I was when I was scored at 55!)

When I was in the hospital, most likely they put me at 21, because I was suicidal and had made a plan to carry out suicide that would most likely have been deadly. I don't know if they were using the "modified" scale, but it was definitely in the 20s. If you're suicidal--not just toying with the idea like you might be with moderate depression--but actually preoccupied or making plans, then that's where they'll rate you, even if you're functioning very well in all other areas. (You won't be, most likely.) They could have put me at below 20, actually, because I also had already hurt myself thanks to SIBs I was trying to use to control overload. But I don't think they would have, because like I said, it's subjective, and the injuries only required minor medical care.

Actually, being unable to communicate gives you an automatic 21, too. Most non-verbal autistics would score at this level, unless they had some way around it to use some other kind of symbolic communication, and use it efficiently--writing, sign, etc.--and thus would function much like a Deaf autistic. Undependable or extremely slow use of sign or a communication device would still qualify for severe impairment in communication.

Inability to live independently usually starts somewhere in the 30s, but "not independent" doesn't mean "institutionalization necessary"; help from family, an aide, or a spouse is often quite enough to help people with problems at that level.

One important thing to remember about GAF scores is that they are based on your area of greatest impairment. They don't say a thing about what you're best at. If you're talented in academics, it is quite possible to, for example, go to college with a GAF in the 30s. You would just need help with things.