It has nothing to do with his actual intelligence – as proven by the fact that despite scoring well below 70 on all the areas that require you to read, write and sit down to concentrate and memorise things, his verbal IQ test put him in the genius range.
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And the thing is that his inability to score well on the IQ test is because he cannot read and write, because of a combination of ADHD and sensory overload, plus severe anxiety. Do you really think that somehow his difficulties would change THAT much in that time? No, of course not. So on any given day, he might end up with an IQ low enough to be “low functioning” but on the day he was last tested, he was just high enough to be “high functioning”. A person I know scored an average of 75 on his IQ test whereas 70 is the cut off point for people still using the concept of “low functioning”. IQ can vary by 5-10 points on any given day. Also, the concept of high vs low functioning was NEVER part of the diagnostic criteria, whatsoever. Although in some cases autism can be found alongside intellectual disability, autism doesn’t CAUSE intellectual disability. It’s also based on the mistaken belief that those with autism have an intellectual disability – they don’t. They are created by non-autistic people to basically describe how much our neurology affects and inconveniences them, and is arbitrarily based on IQ – which can be skewed by any number of reasons. People who were diagnosed before then get to keep that diagnostic label but now it is understood that Asperger’s is just another presentation of Autism, period.Īlso, high and low functioning are nonsense labels. Aspergers used to be a diagnosis but was removed when the DSM-V came out in 2013. To the two people above me – you’re BOTH wrong in some ways.
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