Mild, Moderate or Severe?

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This is silly, stop trying to build boxes to put people in.
a disability is something that disables you to do certian things, many people have many different thoughts on wether they would consider themselves, disabled or not, never mind how "severe". People have problems, some people have more problems in certian areas then others.
Labeling them as having one "disorder" or the next, doesnt help anyone. Understanding specific issues, and learning to treat a person as a whole, while at the same time helping with their "problem" is a better solution. Stop thinking of things in such black and white terms.

the things that work for you, work for you. Its a delusion to think that just because something works for you, that it will work for everyone else.
Autism is a spectrum for a reason, because People are. The problem happens when you start taking apart the rainbow, and putting the purple people next to the blue people, and the red people next to the yellow people...what your left with is an empty box. Everyone is one color or another, and some people are mulitple. Thats just the veriety of humanity. It should be celibrated, not catagorized.

Mild enough for me to adapt to the NT world. Severe enough to mark me as a "weirdo" when I was a kid.

ruveyn

Why is it important to have a car, for? I'd much rather take the bus, being that busses are one of my special interests. Other than that, I have a decent job, and I'm living on my own.

I am " quite far along on the spectrum" I was told by a doctor. Never
even knew any thing about autism till only a little over a year and a half ago.
I just thought I was not trying hard enough in life, some how this did not seem
right tho. I am baseing where I fall on the spectrum by what the profesionals have
reported. My family is supposidly not normal and that is what most people use
to define "normal" hard to go against ideals ingrained from a early age.

About your list of possesions
I live in the wifes house I know I would not be able to have a place of my own
Have owned many cars in the past (hundreds) but most were junkers. Cars
have been my special interest.
My job is a dirty relitivly low paying job but falls into my special interest kind of

The reason I post here/ come here is that I fall between the cracks
I find support here. The thing is I have to compete with the NT world
I have a lot of pride I am lucky too, feel if not for luck in things like the wife
I would be in serious trouble .

Your question hits home. Good to get honest with myself tho.

Dxed with Dyslexia & Asd

Well its no suprise to see people downplaying their condition and considering themselves to be "mild" sadly we tend to make poor judges on how we come across to others.

At the end of the day wether we conciously engage in it or not we all want to fit in or belong in our day to day lives. Unless your problems are such that you are accutely aware on a day to day basis that you have problems with day to day interaction you are going to want to downplay the problems you have. Thats not a bad thing or something to pass judgement on it's just part of human nature.

It's no differnt then people who are on the borderline level of IQ that would qualify them as having moderate learning disabilities. Such people will strife to make out they are not unusual or differnt in anyway in a bid to belong, even at the expense of other people with learning disabilities. I've even seen such behaviour amongst a group of young adolescents with downs syndrome trying to make out they are more "on the normal level" and the rest are a bit below them.

Like some others here I find this thread very insulting. Temple Grandin had a car early in her life---I guess she was mild? I don't think so. Yeah, I drive, but I get lost in unfamiliar places and once there I can't find my way out. I even get turned around in shopping centers. I have sensory issues that are not mild. My special intense interests are not mild. I have stimmed my way into chronic skin conditions. I have no friends. I focus on the positives because I it is better than focusing on the negatives. When I was more depressed in life (when I was young) I self-harmed. Call that mild??? I don't think so.

My problem with this thread is when we are told what we probably are---that person does not know us. It sounds trolling to me. From my analysis of my AS I am moderate. When I was diagnosed professionally by an expert, I was told I might be HFA more than AS. If anyone questions my diagnosis, you can talk to my clinic.

Some of us don't live in America where a car is vital to get from A to B.

I've seen plenty of people on buses carrying shopping shite before. Using public transport isn't exclusive to just the ret*ds.

Another thing, why do so many people get free bus passes when they aren't old or have a physical disability? This goes to the AS people too. Pay like I do, you cu nts.

I should have added this to my previous post. But I find it incredibly insulting that the thread implies that a more challenged autistic individual would not be able to present well here---since they probably wouldn't be here in the first place. Most of us know that the way the thread implies is NOT accurate on this.

I was told to have mild, but... while I do have a car-:

- I can't seem to get a job for the life of me
- I'm not living on campus in college next year (still at home with parents)
- What friends?

I'm more convinced I'm moderate, with just a few missing symptoms... I don't get meltdowns that much. I can recall a few incidents, but I'm relatively calm now. Or... I'm just good at coping with anxiety, even if I'm exploding inside.

As for the "severe" part of the post, it sounds kind of sketchy. I've heard others here state their Asperger's was severe - more than likely, you're explaining Low-Functioning Autism, not any form of Asperger's.