New here and very interested. I will admit to feeling guilty when I initially read this. I was diagnosed level 1 (with ADHD) at age 46. My younger brother however would likely be a level 2, so I do know there are differences that “certain days” cannot pertain to.
I’m sure there is much ableism, even in an autistic community. For me, I feel like defining my low needs days and high needs days isn’t me changing my diagnosis level, but explaining the level of my personal need level. I don’t know that I’ve used the terms in the way discussed in this post, but I will be more aware going forward because I can see how it would be inappropriate.
Thank you for sharing your feelings and it didn’t feel like a rant :). I felt it was very enlightening!
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The ability to hyper focus on one of my (many) special interests. For example, I’m currently working on two christmas quilts at the same time, one uses a pattern and one is a crazy crumb quilt. I sew pieces from one and then chain piece both one after another. For those outside the quilt world, chain piecing is sewing multiple pieces, one after another, in a production line.