"High functioning" is just "suffering in a way that is convenient for neuroytpical society"

[smolbrain@floofy.tech]

@dracokitty
Being praised is soooo fucking telling
Ive never gotten praised for having the right kind of headache
Never gotten a pat on the back for having high functioning flu

(Simplified examples i am not actually saying autism is just a "disease" or "illness". But it is how its treated by most)

I swear I have more autistic friends than not lately and I love all of them. It takes learning their way of communicating. But that both people being "high" functioning together. Not just them having to conform to me.

@Willowbriar

[joshsusser@autistics.life]

@Willowbriar Low functioning means we don't get any agency, but high functioning means we don't get any support. There's no way to win.

[avatastic@avatastic.uk]

@Willowbriar convenient for, or exploitable by?

[psistarpsiii@tacobelllabs.net]

@Willowbriar the line between high functioning and barely-functioning is razor thin

[willowbriar@chaosfem.tw]

@psistarpsiii and ever-changing

[6@possum.city]

@joshsusser@autistics.life @Willowbriar@chaosfem.tw as a supercomputer once said, "what a strange game, the only winning move is to not play" i forget exact wording

[joshsusser@autistics.life]

@6 @Willowbriar close enough for social media

[djsouthworth@wandering.shop]

@Willowbriar oh god i feel this.

[shivviness@beige.party]

@Willowbriar

"High functioning" often means devoting huge amounts of energy to masking, unsustainably so, just so as to appear "normal" to the neurotypical world.

[riley@toot.cat]

@Willowbriar Not society, but the authority figures.

[appetitefordestruction@mastodon.social]

@Willowbriar High finctioning generally refers to completely or mostly verbal autism without intelectual disability

[chubbypunk@troet.cafe]

@Willowbriar ….straight to the burnout with 35