you say theres no severity levels with autism but

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Being so autism is a social disorder, it makes sense to base severity levels on how the person develops socially. I don't mean introversion Vs extroversion, because that's more down to personality that ranges differently from each person, applying to NTs too. But I mean the development of social skills.
Children and adults who had no speech delays as a child but still exhibit autism traits are usually diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome (or were diagnosed, since some genius decided to abolish that diagnosis). I still think they should have kept the Asperger's diagnosis but changed the name to Social Communication Sensory Disorder. I'd be more willing to tell people that rather than autism or Asperger's syndrome (being so I don't fit the criteria for autism much but still have social awkwardness but don't want to have a disorder named after a Nazi).

Lastly, people with mild autism (Asperger's syndrome) are more likely to be missed and diagnosed later on (unless you're Joe90 ) or even misdiagnosed with something else such as depression, anxiety or bipolar.

I suppose it's too hard to really explain in words where the differences lie but there are differences in everyone on the spectrum and no two people are the same. There is no binary severity levels but I believe everyone on the spectrum has their own individual severity level. If everyone on WP were all in a care home (yes, a little abstract but is just an example) would we all be receiving exactly the same care, or would some of us receive the care only catered to our needs? For example some autistic people require one of them keyboard things to communicate, some only require one sometimes, and some of us never need one. I'll never need one in my life, unless something happened where I lost my voice, or if I went completely deaf or something. But that wouldn't be related to ASD.

I have more issues related to communication and language aspects than just social... Not because I care less of it.

'Social' might be easier for me, it's just that I actually have issues with communication and language.
And that communication and language issues ends there -- no amount of practice of language and usage in interactions seem to remedy it, unless I get professional help.

My social issues do not end with just social issues -- it leads back to communication and language issues.
And a good half of my social issues are mostly executive function, interfering with how I should compensate consciously and manually learn and perform whatever's instinctively picked up for NTs.

My main issues are beyond social. Social is mostly collateral and circumstantial for me.

This is another aspect that I cannot relate to most aspies, in the same way that I cannot relate to anyone with social anxieties, in the same way I cannot relate to anyone with NVLD and saying they cannot understand nonverbal cues, in the same way that I cannot relate to alexithymics and how they thought aren't able to feel or sense in an interpersonal sense.


I'm a full blown autistic. Just functioning enough without an aide.
I'm just someone with good enough self help skills, a great social passer with more than socially appropriate social habits therefore without needing to mask (no stims to suppress, no obsessions to impulsively spilled, no need to pretend I feel neutral at best when I'm not overwhelmed to begin with thanks to high thresholds) and get away with plenty of socially reckless things.
I can relate more to 'being trapped in my own body' as a person despite not even being clumsy or have ADHD or not particularly sickly. That just rarely ever brought up.

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