Was rainman low or high functioning?

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24 Jul 2011, 5:12 pm

SuperTrouper wrote:

In the movie it says that he is "fairly high functioning," when the brother first meets him and the caretaker is explaining Rainman to the brother.

God, then what's low functioning?

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24 Jul 2011, 5:20 pm

CaptainTrips222 wrote:

SuperTrouper wrote:

In the movie it says that he is "fairly high functioning," when the brother first meets him and the caretaker is explaining Rainman to the brother.

God, then what's low functioning?

Go to YouTube and search for "low functioning autism."

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24 Jul 2011, 6:10 pm

I heard in a documentary that Rain Man was not autistic but had a severed corpus callosum among other neurological abnormalities. He also died in 2009 (RIP).

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24 Jul 2011, 6:22 pm

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littlelily613 wrote:

According to the article: http://www.duke.edu/~jds31/Papers/autism.html and several other sources I found by briefly googling (I haven't seen the movie yet), he is high-functioning.

Keep in mind (for people who automatically consider him low-functioning) that HFA does not mean mild.

What does HF mean then?

Autism without mental retardation (at least, I think the label "HFA" was created with this meaning in mind).

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24 Jul 2011, 6:53 pm

Low functioning savant. But what is low functioning anyway? I don't like that term very much. Some savants make formidable drawings and paintings, others are great musicians and so forth.

Dustin Hoffmann did a great job and the movie was kinda nice but Rainman is one of the worst things that could ever have happened to autistic people in general.

It's still going to take years before NT's start to realise that the autistic guy that was portrayed in Rainman is actually a cliche and that the majority of people with autism don't behave like that . And just to make things clear: a lot of us do not have the same calculating skills either. You are going to be disappointed if you think otherwise.

So for the NT's on this forum: don't take somebody with autism to a casino and expect him (or her) to win a lot of cash for you.

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24 Jul 2011, 7:22 pm

He was high-functioning, because that's what they said multiple times in the movie.

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24 Jul 2011, 7:50 pm

He was high functioning according to the standards of 1988. He's moderate according to today's standards.

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24 Jul 2011, 9:46 pm

AlexWelshman wrote:

littlelily613 wrote:

What does HF mean then?

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

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24 Jul 2011, 9:51 pm

That was a great movie! But I always thought he was LF, but the shrink said he was HF, so IDK. I found something on youtube that mentions him in it and it`s all of the 5 ASD. It said he has Kanners.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSVRCConi0A[/youtube]

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25 Jul 2011, 1:40 am

CaptainTrips222 wrote:

SuperTrouper wrote:

In the movie it says that he is "fairly high functioning," when the brother first meets him and the caretaker is explaining Rainman to the brother.

God, then what's low functioning?

Keep any blasphemies or swearwords off my things please..

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25 Jul 2011, 4:06 am

AlexWelshman wrote:

CaptainTrips222 wrote:

SuperTrouper wrote:

In the movie it says that he is "fairly high functioning," when the brother first meets him and the caretaker is explaining Rainman to the brother.

God, then what's low functioning?

Keep any blasphemies or swearwords off my things please..

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25 Jul 2011, 5:52 am

Low-functioning in the sense that he definitely wasn't high-functioning, but in ways he was more high-functioning than the average population; he just had to pay the price for that extreme ability by means of not having some of the most basic skills society takes for granted.

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25 Jul 2011, 6:01 am

SuperTrouper wrote:

In the movie it says that he is "fairly high functioning," when the brother first meets him and the caretaker is explaining Rainman to the brother.

That's because of the fact that it was in the late 80s, when AS was practically unknown in North America and therefore there wasn't anything much more high-functioning than an autistic person who can merely speak. Didn't matter what they said; as long as they could speak, they were considered much more "high-functioning" than those who could not. Today, however, Raymond would be considered an autistic savant (like in the movie) but he isn't as high-functioning as someone such as, say, Daniel Tammet. (Tammet's case is one in a trillion, though.)

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25 Jul 2011, 6:17 am

CaptainTrips222 wrote:

AlexWelshman wrote:

CaptainTrips222 wrote:

SuperTrouper wrote:

In the movie it says that he is "fairly high functioning," when the brother first meets him and the caretaker is explaining Rainman to the brother.

God, then what's low functioning?

Keep any blasphemies or swearwords off my things please..

Please stop!! ! OR I'LL BLOCK YOU!

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25 Jul 2011, 6:19 am

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OR I'LL BLOCK YOU!

WP has no such feature.
Also, getting visibly angry over the internet will just make the person making you angry do more stuff to... make you angry.

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25 Jul 2011, 6:21 am

jmnixon95 wrote:

AlexWelshman wrote:

OR I'LL BLOCK YOU!

WP has no such feature.
Also, getting visibly angry over the internet will just make the person making you angry do more stuff to... make you angry.

Thanks, but it really is a pitty there aint a delete button.

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