"High Functioning" Means Useful To Capitalism
What gets called functioning is usually just convenience, measured from outside you. Week 4/4 Built To Disappear, Masking Series.
When someone calls you high functioning, they are not describing your nervous system. They are describing how convenient you are to live alongside.
This is the final piece of the masking puzzle, and it might be the most uncomfortable one. We have spent three weeks looking at how masking was installed, why the diagnostic pipeline missed so many of us, and what the daily labour of masking actually costs. This week is about the language used to make all of that sound acceptable.
