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Functioning Labels – Part 2 – High- Functioning

Paddy-Joe Moran — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:47:26 +0000

The terms high and low functioning are used frequently to describe people at various points of the autistic spectrum. But just how accurate and helpful are these phrases? This article will look at some issues which might arise at the use of the term high-functioning. The first thing that needs to be said is that […]

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Functioning Labels and Autism – Part 1 – Introduction

Paddy-Joe Moran — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:41:00 +0000

Occasionally people view autism itself as a label. They claim that they don’t want to get themselves or their children diagnosed because it would mean they would have to go through the rest of their lives with a label, and that people would see that label as defining who they are. But people in general […]

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