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I get your point but I wouldn’t consider things like not being able to show up at work “functioning at a 12 year old level”, and i don’t think society would eit

I get your point but I wouldn’t consider things like not being able to show up at work “functioning at a 12 year old level”, and i don’t think society would either. Plenty of “neurotypical” adults suck at showing up to things on time, especially at 8am. Plenty of adults throw full-on tantrums or otherwise act like children in certain situations. Plenty of college students don’t know how to do simple things like wash their clothes or cook or keep their dorm clean. Honestly a lot of people can barely function alone and keep their shit together, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that person was one of them, but we don’t look at them like 12-year olds.

codezero 5y ago
I agree - I was using a specific example but in practice I think it's a number of a class of things like this that pile on and look a lot like executive dysfunction, and the label is put on these people by NTs, not by themselves. I had no problem showing up to work every day at 11am, fwiw, and was lucky enough to have a lot of jobs that didn't think too hard about schedules, but for folks not so lucky, not fitting the average in a number of ways will get you very crude labels. Those labels are to give their caretakers power over them in the eyes of society/legally.