Yup. Assimilation and masking scores top of the charts. Suppressing a constant state of discomfort and anxiety. Turns out when you repeatedly abuse an autistic kid, they learn to be like everyone else to survive.
High functioning and low functioning doesn’t describe a person, it describes how much help you need. You can be high functioning on one day and low functioning on another.
That’s what it should be. In reality it’s how much neurotypicals are bothered by noticing your neurodivergence. ‘high functioning’ often means ‘suffers in silence by themselves, as they should’.
High functioning is the autism version of “one of the good ones”
High functioning = people saying “oh, you’re not really autistic”
And you can be high functioning while being visibly autistic.
Living alone and completing the basic tasks required for survival, does not actually require eye contact, pitch perfect voice modulation, neurotypical social behaviour or body language, subjecting oneself to stressful stimuli without appearing stressed, etc.
true story.
Just that no one really thinks i’m normal, and i don’t get anything done. and I also don’t go anywhere where i have to socialize.
but other than that. same.
Very acute description
