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I may have misunderstood your point here, but I do not think the author intended to suggest that her situation was in any way a worst case, or to minimize the d
by mannykannot 5y ago
I may have misunderstood your point here, but I do not think the author intended to suggest that her situation was in any way a worst case, or to minimize the difficulties faced by others. On the other hand, I do think she was pointing out that terms like high or low functioning are not categories of the spectrum, and nor are they the sort of issue it is intended to differentiate between.
- emodendroket 5y agoI took the point of the piece to be that thinking about it in terms of "best" or "worst" cases was itself wrongheaded, and that there's no meaningful distinction you could make between "high" or "low" function. Assuming that's what she meant, I don't agree.
- mannykannot 5y agoI feel that it is implicit in the passage I quoted that the author sees such a distinction, but that her doctor was mistaken in assuming that it is determined by the spectrum diagnosis.