smokeyrutilequartz:

uponflagstaffroad:

“But I met another person with autism, and he was very high functioning, but you’re so much higher functioning than him! If he’s high functioning, then by comparison, you can’t be autistic at all!”

Maybe you should step back for a moment and consider the fact that functioning labels are not an accurate measurement for autistic people, since they are completely arbitrary and not meaningfully based on any actual diagnostic criteria, and are instead entirely a means to segregate autistic people into who is considered useful under capitalism and who is considered a useless burden on society.