Functioning labels are
useless

F
O
R

the autistic
person.

We don’t wake up every morning and think:
“I am so
low-functioning,

I feel
so sorry
for myself,

I
am
too needy

and I don’t
really
have a chance to be
valued”.

We wake up
and face the life
we have,
being the best
we can be.

If we have any hidden
abilities, they will remain
hidden.

Or we might show some special talent
but if we still look weird
or too different from our peers, we are
still pitied,
as if we are under constant
suffering.

And we don’t wake up
every morning and think:
“I am so high-functioning,
I look almost normal

. Today I will try to be normal,
like my peers.
I want to be just like them,
indistinguishable from them”.

We wake up
and face the life we have,
being the best
we can be.