high functioning and low functioning are both common medical term which are actually very harmful to use.
they're often used to measure how easy disabled people are to interact with and not actually how their disorder affects them.
when someone is labelled as high functioning, people assume they have no struggles whatsoever, so they don't look out for them. and then they might have a meltdown or burnout because they've had to push through those feelings all of the time.
and when someone is labelled as low functioning, people assume they're stupid or something along those lines, so they baby low functioning people. even when they're full-grown adults!
(when i use the term "disabled" i mean anyone who is affected by a learning disability or anything similar, if my usage of this term comes off as offensive, just know that i apologise, but i am saying all of this as a disabled person, so ofc i wouldn't use that term to purposefully harm anyone!)
they're often used to measure how easy disabled people are to interact with and not actually how their disorder affects them.
when someone is labelled as high functioning, people assume they have no struggles whatsoever, so they don't look out for them. and then they might have a meltdown or burnout because they've had to push through those feelings all of the time.
and when someone is labelled as low functioning, people assume they're stupid or something along those lines, so they baby low functioning people. even when they're full-grown adults!
(when i use the term "disabled" i mean anyone who is affected by a learning disability or anything similar, if my usage of this term comes off as offensive, just know that i apologise, but i am saying all of this as a disabled person, so ofc i wouldn't use that term to purposefully harm anyone!)
Person 1: so you have high functioning autism?
Person 2: on the outside that may be true for you, but on the inside life is very difficult for me, so i'd prefer if you didn't force functioning labels on me and just do your best to support me instead.
P1: oh crap, sorry man, thanks for explaining
Person 2: on the outside that may be true for you, but on the inside life is very difficult for me, so i'd prefer if you didn't force functioning labels on me and just do your best to support me instead.
P1: oh crap, sorry man, thanks for explaining
by eboybur June 11, 2022
Get the functioning labelsmug. A record label that isn't registered but still somewhat exists
Examples: Flex Entertainment, Billion Dollar Records, 10X Entertainment
Examples: Flex Entertainment, Billion Dollar Records, 10X Entertainment
by zicari101 October 2, 2020
Get the pseudo-record labelmug. Why are you talking shit for? You waited for me to be sick to fight me? That's how you bitch label a person.
by Death0A September 16, 2014
Get the Bitch Labelmug. An amazing women. Her orgasms flood you like a tsunami. Her name brings quivers to your knees. A beautiful Arab goddess. What a woman.
by Shdivevwh May 9, 2025
Get the Rawanda LaBellemug. by sdinaz October 23, 2023
Get the How do I buy the Singapore Fashion Label Aijek?mug. Hym "That is an apt way of putting it. It's 'a fraudulent re-labeling racket' Where you take me ideas, call them something else, and launder them out. And then, when someone questions you about it you can just re-label the person you're doing it to into a class of people who anything is justified against. A 'Neo-Nazi' and, therefore, you can ignore their rights. And when that doesn't work you can guilt by association fallacy the person defending them."
by Hym Iam January 19, 2025
Get the A fraudulent re-labeling racketmug. A dumb whore who will suck off any random hobo with a crack pipe on the streets of LA to New Jersey.
by #bestdayever April 5, 2024
Get the Labellemug.