Was rainman low or high functioning?

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25 Jul 2011, 6:56 am

AlexWelshman wrote:

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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.

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

LOL. Unless you're being facetious, you're legitimately pissed. LOL.

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25 Jul 2011, 8:38 am

Don't do something that you know upsets another person, unless you have a compelling reason.

Anyway, back on topic, Raymond was clearly low-functioning by modern standards (but to the higher end of low-functioning). However, the movie was set before the translation of Hans Asperger's article and the 'discovery' of Asperger Syndrome, and back then, any autistic who used communicative speech was considered high functioning.

Regarding how HF/LF compares with severity of autism - I think they're correlated but not the same. I knew a sociable nonverbal 15 year old who used a lot of gestures to communicate and had obsessive interests. I'd call him mildly autistic, but low functioning. However I think severely autistic people pretty much always are medium to low functioning, even if they're quite intelligent, because their way of being so strongly clashes with our NT world.

There are many reasons why someone could be low functioning. Some of those are autism-related, some are just common comorbids. Things like mental retardation, motor apraxia, sensory issues, not being a verbal-sequential thinker, difficulty with symbols, each of those can contribute to your ability to care for yourself and/or communicate, which are the two key skills that define functioning level. Each can be seen in mild degrees among some/many high functioning people, and in severe degrees among many lower functioning people. But only some of those are part of autism severity.

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25 Jul 2011, 8:48 am

An article about LFA, HFA, AS, etc. are supposed to mean:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mak ... categories

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25 Jul 2011, 9:17 am

TPE2 wrote:

An article about LFA, HFA, AS, etc. are supposed to mean:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mak ... categories

That's interesting: thanks for posting it

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25 Jul 2011, 10:57 am

Ironically the person rainman was based on wasn't autistic at all, so yeah. Balls to that.

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25 Jul 2011, 3:38 pm

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Ironically the person rainman was based on wasn't autistic at all, so yeah. Balls to that.

He wasn't solely based on Kim Peek, nor is that irony.

Also, RIP Kim Peek. I was sad when he died.

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25 Jul 2011, 6:33 pm

high functioning by 1988 autism diagnosis.

mid functioning by today's autism diagnosis.

IMHO we really need a severity rating in the spectrum. i wish they'd do that in DSM V

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25 Jul 2011, 7:02 pm

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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..

GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD ::Deeeeeeep breath:: GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD ::Deeeep breath:: GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD GOD....

Except, the word "GOD", when used without context, is not a blasphemy nor a swear word. It's the particular use that makes it such.

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25 Jul 2011, 7:03 pm

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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).

No, the real person upon whom the character is largely based was not autistic and died in 2009. Rainman is a movie character, and didn't die. and did/does have autism.

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25 Jul 2011, 7:09 pm

Raymond Babbitt was also based on Bill Sackter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sackter

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25 Jul 2011, 7:23 pm

After I saw Sphere, I'll have to go with low functioning. What a stinker.

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25 Jul 2011, 8:36 pm

LOW.

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25 Jul 2011, 8:47 pm

High.
I have a cousin who is autistic and low-functioning. Rain Man's abilities are way ahead of hers.

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25 Jul 2011, 8:56 pm

Quote:

An article about LFA, HFA, AS, etc. are supposed to mean:

Except that there are low functioning autistics with an IQ over 70, like Sue Rubin.

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25 Jul 2011, 11:24 pm

Mysty wrote:

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..

Except, the word "GOD", when used without context, is not a blasphemy nor a swear word. It's the particular use that makes it such.

I know. It still gave me a laugh.

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26 Jul 2011, 8:42 pm

I would definately say mid- functioning.
I am high functioning. I have a cousin who is low functioning. Raymond Babbitt would definately be somewhere in between where we are... :?:

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