Comments on: LFA and HFA http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:37:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Melody http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/comment-page-1/#comment-556128 Melody Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:45:52 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/lfa-and-hfa/#comment-556128 Hmm, yeah. I'm quite high-functioning in math, chemistry, and physics, whereas I'm high to middle to low functioning (depending on what time you see me) in auditory processing, laundry, food preparation, speech, dealing with change, navigating bureaucracy (aren't we all!), etc. However, in areas of physics, calculus, and chemistry, the special services staff were mostly quite low-functioning. Those poor, poor soles ;-) However, when it comes to auditory processing and movement initiation, they are astonishingly high-functioning. Splinter skills, anyone? Hmm, yeah. I’m quite high-functioning in math, chemistry, and physics, whereas I’m high to middle to low functioning (depending on what time you see me) in auditory processing, laundry, food preparation, speech, dealing with change, navigating bureaucracy (aren’t we all!), etc.

However, in areas of physics, calculus, and chemistry, the special services staff were mostly quite low-functioning. Those poor, poor soles ;-)

However, when it comes to auditory processing and movement initiation, they are astonishingly high-functioning. Splinter skills, anyone?

]]> By: ATM http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/comment-page-1/#comment-556113 ATM Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:14:35 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/lfa-and-hfa/#comment-556113 B"H I would be classified as HFA. However, there are times when I doubt that classification. I agree with the lady who stated that she was verbal,yet that in "cooking/cleaning/paying bills on time? HA! In their dreams!" This describes my situation perfectly. Is it against the definition of "LFA" to have existential angst? ATM B”H

I would be classified as HFA. However, there are times when I doubt that classification. I agree with the lady who stated that she was verbal,yet that in “cooking/cleaning/paying bills on time? HA! In their dreams!” This describes my situation perfectly. Is it against the definition of “LFA” to have existential angst?

ATM

]]> By: High and Low http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/comment-page-1/#comment-548522 High and Low Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:05:18 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/lfa-and-hfa/#comment-548522 [...] was some discussion yesterday about bring “high” or “low” or “middle” “functioning.” Charlie’s experience learning to play [...] [...] was some discussion yesterday about bring “high” or “low” or “middle” “functioning.” Charlie’s experience learning to play [...]

]]> By: MFA http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/comment-page-1/#comment-548633 MFA Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:38:16 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/lfa-and-hfa/#comment-548633 [...] am not comfortable with, not think it accurate, to describe Charlie as “LFA” or “HFA,” most of all because what I gather to be the commonly used meanings of these terms does not truly [...] [...] am not comfortable with, not think it accurate, to describe Charlie as “LFA” or “HFA,” most of all because what I gather to be the commonly used meanings of these terms does not truly [...]

]]> By: Autism Vox » The ‘head-spinning heterogeneity’ of the autism spectrum http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/comment-page-1/#comment-529321 Autism Vox » The ‘head-spinning heterogeneity’ of the autism spectrum Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:48:23 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/lfa-and-hfa/#comment-529321 [...] You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Related Posts: A Really Big Windmill...Dangerous and Misleading: On cure,lfa, hfa, and autism...Unathletic…….not!...No Single Explanation for Autism?...6 Facts You Need to Know About Autism?...Why I Worry About Charlie on the Bus...Welcome to Teenage and Adult Autism... [...] [...] You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Related Posts: A Really Big Windmill…Dangerous and Misleading: On cure,lfa, hfa, and autism…Unathletic…….not!…No Single Explanation for Autism?…6 Facts You Need to Know About Autism?…Why I Worry About Charlie on the Bus…Welcome to Teenage and Adult Autism… [...]

]]> By: Autism Vox » Dangerous and Misleading: Alison Singer on cure, lfa, hfa, and autism http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/comment-page-1/#comment-528597 Autism Vox » Dangerous and Misleading: Alison Singer on cure, lfa, hfa, and autism Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:47:05 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/lfa-and-hfa/#comment-528597 [...] Singer makes a distinction between those who are “lower-functioning” and “higher-functioning”—-terms that I think (see this earlier post) are not only inaccurate, but highly, and dangerously, misleading (see what Mom-NOS writes about this subject and also Ballastexistenz). [...] [...] Singer makes a distinction between those who are “lower-functioning” and “higher-functioning”—-terms that I think (see this earlier post) are not only inaccurate, but highly, and dangerously, misleading (see what Mom-NOS writes about this subject and also Ballastexistenz). [...]

]]> By: Autism Vox http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/comment-page-1/#comment-527888 Autism Vox Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:29:37 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/lfa-and-hfa/#comment-527888 [...] Nazeer does not use terms like “high-functioning” or “low-functioning” in writing about his former classmates, though not all have been able to “achieve” the “success” of Craig and André, and of Nazeer himself. What Send In the Idiots: Stories from the other side of autism shows is how, however many academic skills one has acquired, however many social skills one has been trained in, the difference of autism remains. Randall is a bike messenger in Chicago and the only one of the former classmates to be involved in a romantic relationship (which ends when Randall discovers that his partner, Mike, has been cheating on him—and that Mike thought that Randall would be unaware of this). Elizabeth struggled to learn to take the bus to the library by herself, lived with her parents, and gave piano lessons. She committed suicide at the age of 26 in 2002 by swallowing “the contents of most of her bottles and jars, even the nutritional supplements” (p. 173) and climbing into the swimming pool. [...] [...] Nazeer does not use terms like “high-functioning” or “low-functioning” in writing about his former classmates, though not all have been able to “achieve” the “success” of Craig and André, and of Nazeer himself. What Send In the Idiots: Stories from the other side of autism shows is how, however many academic skills one has acquired, however many social skills one has been trained in, the difference of autism remains. Randall is a bike messenger in Chicago and the only one of the former classmates to be involved in a romantic relationship (which ends when Randall discovers that his partner, Mike, has been cheating on him—and that Mike thought that Randall would be unaware of this). Elizabeth struggled to learn to take the bus to the library by herself, lived with her parents, and gave piano lessons. She committed suicide at the age of 26 in 2002 by swallowing “the contents of most of her bottles and jars, even the nutritional supplements” (p. 173) and climbing into the swimming pool. [...]

]]> By: Kristina Chew, PhD http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/comment-page-1/#comment-527805 Kristina Chew, PhD Sun, 23 Jul 2006 02:10:29 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/lfa-and-hfa/#comment-527805 Thanks Shawn for your insights---they are a start to move on from, indeed! Thanks Shawn for your insights—they are a start to move on from, indeed!

]]> By: Shawn http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/comment-page-1/#comment-527801 Shawn Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:10:18 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/lfa-and-hfa/#comment-527801 My thinking on this topic is very much along the lines of Ballastexistenz. When HFA and LFA are used the turn autism into a one dimensional spectrum. The terms are useless in this context. HF and LF can be very useful to communicate about particular skills (and as Ballastexistenz said, at particular points in time). The other issues is that the terms define autism in only two shades: HF, and LF. Even when we talk about particular skills, the terms are not specific or descriptive. Maybe they are useful as a start, but only as a start. My thinking on this topic is very much along the lines of Ballastexistenz. When HFA and LFA are used the turn autism into a one dimensional spectrum. The terms are useless in this context. HF and LF can be very useful to communicate about particular skills (and as Ballastexistenz said, at particular points in time).

The other issues is that the terms define autism in only two shades: HF, and LF. Even when we talk about particular skills, the terms are not specific or descriptive. Maybe they are useful as a start, but only as a start.

]]> By: Ashley Morgan http://www.blisstree.com/articles/lfa-and-hfa/comment-page-1/#comment-527778 Ashley Morgan Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:57:28 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/lfa-and-hfa/#comment-527778 I'm not implying anything. I’m not implying anything.

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