#highfunctioningmeans

Patterns for Success: #HighFunctioningMeans Career Challenges

For those of you who are active on Twitter, you may have witnessed an uprising of tweets from actually autistic people over the last week with three very poignant hashtags:

#LowFunctioningMeans

#HighFunctioningMeans

#FunctioningLabelsMean

The gist of this movement was to express the damage that functioning labels have done to many autistic people in setting certain expectations of ability or…