Nor are there many support groups or research studies for high-functioning patients.

The study focused on children with a high-functioning form of autism.

Of course, high-functioning people on the spectrum have long attended college.

She had landed herself, once again, in a high-functioning little theatrical family.

You were saying not long ago, your son was diagnosed with high-functioning autism.

I'm very high-functioning and I hope to do medical research and rock music.

When does a glass or two at the end of the day spill over into high-functioning alcoholism?

He said Sandusky was too high-functioning to have the disorder.

Eastern Market was lucky, but the city is filled with other high-functioning basket cases.

While I am high-functioning, my life has been full of enormous ups and downs.

However, among those with high-functioning autism, he notes, it is easier to make this case.

But she soon found that even the "high-functioning professionals" among her patients were turning anxious.

No single effective intervention exists for individuals with high-functioning autism.

A large proportion of these people are likely to be suffering from high-functioning alcoholism.

Without the drugs, psychiatrists believe, many high-functioning patients would find themselves in institutions or jail.

His mother said last year that Crawford has been diagnosed with high-functioning autism.

Recently, a family friend updated my wife about her young adult son who has relatively high-functioning autism.

In 2009 he revealed his son had high-functioning autism.

Haley's case is on the high-functioning side of the autism spectrum.

"These are high-functioning women who have never seen a psychiatrist before," says Gonsalves.

And that figure doesn't include cases of high-functioning autism or Asperger's.

But some families with reasonably high-functioning family members may not want to tap those benefits, or even make sure they are eligible.

But a difference in the high-functioning alcoholic, Benton said, is the power of the denial.

But these high-functioning children face a host of new problems as they approach adolescence, when social interactions become more complicated.

However when it came to communication and behavioral problems, there were similarities to the high-functioning subjects.