Functioning labels are bad and shouldn’t be used. I have given explanations about this time and time again, and written my own opinion about it. There are a lot of autistics against them. This is a masterpost collecting some of them. Besides what I have written on the subject which you can search on my blog, here are other posts.
You don’t speak for low-functioning autistics
https://lysikan.tumblr.com/post/106147681470/you-dont-speak-for-low-functioning-autistics
Please don’t use labels on me – and us
https://k-pagination.tumblr.com/post/86615316874/please-dont-use-labels-on-me-and-us
So high functioning (sarcasm)
http://www.autistichoya.com/2012/09/so-high-functioning-sarcasm.html
Don’t “aspie” me
http://wearelikeyourchild.blogspot.be/2014/01/dont-aspie-me.html
The problem with functioning labels
http://www.snagglebox.com/article/autism-functioning
A true story and a little lesson about functioning labels
http://autisticadvocacy.org/2010/05/a-true-story-and-a-little-lesson-about-functioning-level/
He’s so functional
http://autisticadvocacy.org/2008/03/hes-so-functional/
Decoding the high functioning label
Decoding the High Functioning Label
Functioning labels are bullshit
http://autisticliving.tumblr.com/post/122403647584/functioning-labels-are-bullshit
“High-functioning” is not reassuring me. It’s reassuring you.
http://autisticliving.tumblr.com/post/129172294531/high-functioning-is-not-reassuring-me-it-is
When autistics grade other autistics
https://ollibean.com/autistics-grade-autistics/
High-functioning or low-functioning?
https://ollibean.com/high-functioning-or-low-functioning/
More problems with functioning labels
https://ollibean.com/problems-functioning-labels/
Functioning labels
http://yesthattoo.blogspot.be/2012/05/functioning-labels.html
functioning labels (again!)
http://yesthattoo.blogspot.be/2013/03/functioning-labels-again.html
“But your’re so high functional! if you had other problems you’d want a cure too!”
http://timetolisten.blogspot.be/2012/06/but-youre-soooo-high-functioning-if-you.html
So you think we’re “to high-fuctioning”?
http://strangeringodzone.blogspot.be/2017/09/so-you-think-were-too-high-functioning.html
the ‘bogeyman’ of the ‘low-fuctioning’
http://strangeringodzone.blogspot.be/2017/12/the-bogeyman-of-low-functioning.html