What level of ASD do you have?

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As others have said on here, there are no levels given in the UK now.

I was diagnosed at 41 and have a good job, long term partner (of 23 years) and child. I don't have any friends other than family and work colleagues. I've always struggled socially and have been drained by social interaction. My partner always suspected I was autistic but I have always just "coped" thinking that's what every other person does, blissfully unaware as I always have been!

Guess I would be level one as I wouldn't be able to cope very well without my amazingly supportive partner.

I think that I am generally "moderate-functioning", not truly high-functioning. I received ruling of moderate level of disability (first time in 2015) and have care allowance thanks to it. I also have social pension thanks to ruling of total incapability of work from Social Insurance Institution, also since 2015. I think that people who received social pension due to mental disorders cannot be named "high-functioning", I would even say that I am closer to low-functioning individuals than to high-functioning ones. I have no job and in some way I do not have an idea about my employment, I did not plan my occupational career. I have no friends (and have never had), since about 11 years I have no colleagues. It does not pain so much, wifelessness is much worse for my mental well-being.

A priest said (in 2014?) that care allowance is due to me (Polish: należy mi się zasiłek pielęgnacyjny) and that it is very possible that I will be not able to marry to the end of my life. He also said that it is very possible that I (or person like I) can not commit sacrilege. Another priest, who was my quite regular confessor, said that I am too ill to commit grave sin (it means that I can not commit mortal sin). It sounds like low-functioning...

I have pretty severe aucorigia. I consider my OCD as a symptom of complex developmental disorder, which I named "polymixia". I do not have disability level 1, but 2. I think that ASD level 1 may be larger disability than associated with Polish ruling of mild level of disability. I think that American system of classifying autism and similar disorders is flawed. I think that people with autism spectrum level 0 also have autism, they may have much larger risk of having offspring with clinical AS than general population. AS level 0 is for me a sort of "(very) high-functioning aucorigia (polymixia)". I think that truly high-functioning autistics are those with subclinical syndromes, not those with ASD level 1 (which could or even should be considered moderate). I think that demarcation between high and moderate functioning aucorigia can be quite fuzzy.

Life is tough being on the spectrum but I don't need support.
So I selected: "0"

What do you mean by: "support"?

I wouldn't want yearly evaluations.

Level 2.

I don't really understand the poll options. What the hell is "level 3"? I've never heard of anything but levels 1 and 2 and I'm still pretty hazy on what each of them mean. I'm an aspie so I'm technically high functioning, but since I can't hold down a job, I'm on public assistance (for rent, food, cash assistance and public health insurance) and I'm in the process of applying for SSI which I should eventually get. I've apparently qualified for other services, but I'm not sure what's out there nor if any of them would be useful at all since I don't need help at home nor w/shopping or anything like that.

Level 1 was high
Level 2 was moderate
Level 3 was severe

None of them really mean much honestly.
I was diagnosed as an aspie but am level 2.

I think that "support" (in adult life) is especially associated with job and running a household.

I was relatively good (sometimes even very good) in school but really poor in occupational life.

I would say that I have rather autism level 2 than 1. I have never had close friend (and did not feel special need to have him), I live with parents, have no driving licence, no wife and offspring, I have never been in romantic relationship. I have no job now, I had job with contract for about 6 months in my life when I was about 26 - 27 years old, but it was thanks to certificate of disability, not on open job market. I had also very short (8 days, 1 hour each day) job without any contract. I found offers about these jobs during meetings with employment agent in association which helps people with disabilities.

I would like to think I'm either Level 0 or Level 1, requiring no support other than that of family and friends I have made through my various activities. I wish to keep it that way. I don't want an evaluation because I may be forced to accept that I could be in a lower category requiring more significant supports. I don't want those types of "support." For me, that would be a major step backwards and part of a downward spiral, sort of like being told I had a degenerative disease. I would hope that, if I did get a diagnosis, I don't find a professional who treated me that way. Any time I ever got an evaluation, I had to accept less in my life and never got an objective inventory of my strengths and weaknesses, with advice on how to maximize my strengths and shore up my weak areas.

There is no level on my diagnosis (because my diagnosis was before the DSM-V came out), and I think these "levels" are a load of crap. Autistics are autistics, nothing more and nothing less. True some of us need more support than others, and that's the beauty of our diversity. Just the medical community trying to divide us by some contrived number to make it harder for us to advocate for our community as a whole. When I was a child I probably would've been considered a level 2, as my original PDD diagnosis would indicate, but nowadays, at the brink of graduating from university, I would definitely be considered level 0/1.

I'm diagnosed but they didn't give me a level.

They were for the special schooling.

You are doing it tough.
It's not easy being on the spectrum.



I never heard of these rankings in Australia.

I think in the UK, the "Level" may depend on the reference used by the person doing the diagnosis, which might be ICD 10, or it might be DSM5. If they use the DSM they ought to be making an informed estimate of the support needs, to assign a level, vis
Level 1 - requires some support
Level 2 - requires substantial support
Level 3 - requires very substantial support.

StarTrekker's thread elsewhere shows that a diagnosis may miss informal supports already in place from family or the persons life circumstances at the time of diagnosis and underestimate the level of support needed.

Also, the DSM has a second function which is a gatekeeper to statutory assistance, insurance based benefits, workplace accommodations or protection under laws such as the UK "Equality Act 2010" "Disability Discromination Act", the US "Americans With Disabilities Act" and equivalent laws in other countries. The compilers of the current edition have not included a severity level 0, which might be expressed as having the ability to work out their own means of support given confirmation that their profile is autistic, which at present seems to be where I fit.

However, like Startrekker, I have a lot of informal supports in place which would not be immediately obvious in a diagnostic assessment, namely, I have worked for a long time for a large organisation with a somewhat paternalistic tradition, in a field where there are many with profiles similar to mine, I live alone, meaning I have freedom to stim, have lots of down time and low non work social demands, meaning any stressed from work dissipate in controlled manners which others don't see. Also, while not married, I have a friend with the closeness of an honorary big sister, and I am part of a poly arrangement which seems to give all concerned the right balance of intimicy, confiding and personal space, and who knows, if all that were taken away and I was then re-assrssed a year later, the result night be a severity level one or even severity two.

At my own assessment, my autistic profile came out without question, a spread of 15 out of the 18 points ( the threshold with that tool is 10) but advised that because I was employed long term, I had found relationships which seemed to match my needs, there was no evidence of having been disabled in any way, as would be required to match all the criteria for clinical diagnosis; in fact the report noted I had made good use of all the strong parts in my Autistic profile to good effect to avoid being significantly impaired by it, which is something in which I take pride ( for as long as those fortunate combinations of circumstances remain).

I was diagnosed with level 2 and I need support 24/7 but I can talk and communicate (using nods or shaking my head and pecs cars) so I wouldn't be anywhere near level 3.