Board index › General Discussion › General Autism Discussion

Labeled HF, no severity

Page 1 of 1 [ 3 posts ] 

Previous topic | Next topic

Lumi
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 7 Sep 2012
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,513
Location: Positive-minded

15 Dec 2013, 6:43 pm

My assessment has been updated. HF means 'high functioning'.
From my past academic history and the fact that I am verbal (more than not) one professional and some people who see me (even once)

[to unknown person watching me] "she's autistic."
reply "she seems high functioning"
reply to person [pause] "in some ways"...even when I've made no eye contact, minimally verbal, and was obviously stimming. 8O

I know high functioning has no set definition except clinically.


_________________
Slytherin/Thunderbird


Last edited by Lumi on 16 Dec 2013, 9:29 pm, edited 5 times in total.

animalcrackers
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 26 Feb 2011
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,207
Location: Somewhere

15 Dec 2013, 6:53 pm

I don't understand functioning labels.....Everyone seems to have their own idea of what "[high/low/moderate]-functioning" means.


_________________
"Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving." -- Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Love transcends all.


btbnnyr
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 18 May 2011
Gender: Female
Posts: 7,359
Location: Lost Angleles Carmen Santiago

15 Dec 2013, 7:04 pm

They are probably using the no intellectual disability criterion (based on IQ tests and/or academics) and their general impression of your behaviors to label you as high functioning autistic.


_________________
Drain and plane and grain and blain your brain, and then again,
Propane and butane out of the gas main, your blain shall sustain!