I believe we are communicating with high-functioning savants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bachmann: Bill Clinton Is Trying To ‘Celebrate’ The Oklahoma City Bombing And ‘Take [Me] Out’] Reference

My elder son is high-functioning autistic, now in his mid-forties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Re: Autism] Reference

But John, the way you describe it, he was not always high-functioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making The World Work For Adults With Autism] Reference

It ` s really an inspiration for a nation of high-functioning alcoholics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2007] Reference

Zeke suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Margot Livesey about Banishing Verona] Reference

Cigarettes, on the other hand, is the insidious addiction of the high-functioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [make that TWO sea breezes] Reference

Many heavy drinkers are very high-functioning -- until they can't function anymore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are You an Alcoholic?] Reference

The hero has Aspergers Syndrome - which is considered to be high-functioning autism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inaugral Friday Book Club] Reference

He is a high-functioning moron, and that is what Congress treats him as, both parties.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2008] Reference

This was among the most high-functioning of campaign offices or organizations I've seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Silberman: 350 Global Day of Action: A New Bright Line for Digital Organizing] Reference

And some people call it high-functioning Asperger's, I guess, or high-functioning autism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making The World Work For Adults With Autism] Reference

Bob has developmental delays, but is fairly high-functioning; he has a job and drives a car.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Senator: Sex Offender- The Label Lasts a Lifetime] Reference

It turned out that he was a smart, high-functioning heroin and methadone addict who hid it well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mortgage and Marriage Modification] Reference

Ne'eman was diagnosed at 12 with Asperger's syndrome, a high-functioning subgroup of the spectrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysteries and Complications] Reference

I don't think somebody like -- a high-level, high-functioning professional would take that option.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2003] Reference

We want to balance our focus and be able to help everyone, including high-functioning individuals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvaro Fernandez: How "Saying Thanks" Will Make You Happier] Reference

Is there any possibility you could achieve the intellectual level of high-functioning lowland ape?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Profiles in “Courage”] Reference

And if you're not reading a book about being a single, high-functioning member of society ... you should.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandon Snider: Dear Jon...Gosselin] Reference

Recently, a family friend updated my wife about her young adult son who has relatively high-functioning autism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Major Obstacles for Adults with Autism] Reference

But I can't help wondering if a high-functioning autistic could find the cure for cancer or solve global warming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Magazine] Reference

Whatever playbook you're currently reading about being a single, high-functioning member of society ... is wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandon Snider: Dear Jon...Gosselin] Reference

But more important, though your article was about autistic adults, you didn't interview any high-functioning ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to the Magazine] Reference

Of course, loving life isn't always a bad thing: sensation seekers are often high-energy, high-functioning people.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Cheating Brain] Reference

At 43, Gary has lived with an until recently undiagnosed case of high-functioning autism known as Asperger's Syndrome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denis Campbell: The Curious Incident of a US Extradition in the Night-Time] Reference

A successful, high-functioning working mother had come in complaining of short-term memory loss and persistent anxiety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Girls Will Be Girls] Reference

Mr. DONVAN: No. I mean, at the beginning - people talk in terms of high-functioning, low-functioning and classic autism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making The World Work For Adults With Autism] Reference

Ari Ne'eman is 21 years old and has Asperger syndrome, a high-functioning diag-nosis on the wide-ranging autism spectrum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erasing Autism] Reference

E. ASNE.: And by "high-functioning," he is in many ways, shapes and forms brilliant intellectually -- in physics, mathematics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2007] Reference

Her father is what she calls "an amazingly high-functioning alcoholic" who runs a successful heavy equipment leasing business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Drexler: Lost and Found: Don't Give Up on Dad] Reference

Alex Barton is a 5-year-old boy in the process of being diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a high-functioning type of autism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Barton Thrown Out of Class by 5-Year-Old Peers] Reference

Before our generation's high-functioning denial set down its roots in American soil, confidence was a much less complex affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carol Orsborn: How Confident are Boomer Consumers?] Reference

Two weeks ago, on Anderson Cooper's show on CNN, Paul Begala called the president of the United States "a high-functioning moron.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Not Much Dubya in Stone’s ‘W.’] Reference

So, the thing is that my dad was a very high-functioning alcoholic -- he was an advertising executive, but nevertheless an alcoholic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2009] Reference

I mean, my son, even though he's high-functioning, he has skills that are different than Donald's, but at the same time sort of quirky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making The World Work For Adults With Autism] Reference

Look at Rush Limbaugh, a high-functioning individual who was being treated for pain who, unfortunately, went down this particular path.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2003] Reference

Behold the land of hyperfocus and high-functioning drive punctuated by immediate distraction when the next bright shiny toy comes along.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Your Novel Isn’t Written Yet] Reference

Self-Medicated is a film about Andrew Ericksen (played by Monty Lapica), a high-functioning but troubled 17-year-old living in Las Vegas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Film on adolescent addiction raises question regarding drug rehab and mental health] Reference