My experience with being perceived as “high-functioning” is so negative because it primarily comes from the sacrifices I make at the cost of my health in order to keep up with social expectations
I have to actively choose between taking care of myself and fulfilling responsibilities because I don’t have energy for both (I usually wouldn’t even call it a choice given that adult life especially isn’t the most forgiving)
Anybody else?
I do experience this but it is especially egregious for people to consider me high-functioning because my diagnosis is explicitly not high-functioning, which is used to refer to Level 1 ASD. So they are not just making assumptions about my functioning but they are also objectively wrong.