The phrase "as a high functioning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who operates effectively despite certain challenges, often in the context of mental health or neurodiversity.
Example: "As a high functioning individual on the autism spectrum, she excels in her career while managing her unique challenges."
Alternatives: "as a highly capable" or "as a well-functioning".
Dreamland has long been a fascination of mine because it's precisely what you hope to fall into as a teenage misfit: a high functioning carnival of artists, outlaws, losers and freaks who somehow get it together enough to make really cool shit that is about something.
A reflexively arrogant individual who refers to himself as a "high-functioning sociopath," Holmes now takes Watson's role.
While on the subject, the 34-year-old took the opportunity to clarify what he meant when he referred to himself as a "high-functioning alcoholic" in an interview with GQ in May.
Haughty and cool and willing to exploit others where his plans require it, he refers to himself as a "high-functioning sociopath," and, in an almost sentimental moment, admits that he is "dismissive of the virtuous, unaware of the beautiful and uncomprehending in the face of the happy".
In "Drinking" Ms. Knapp wrote about the disturbing incongruities of her life as what she called a "high-functioning alcoholic": she was an award-winning journalist, an Ivy League graduate from a well-to-do New England family and by all appearances a happy, healthy and successful young woman.
Punit often comments on research regarding the attributes of exceptional organizations, including the importance of a well-articulated and lived workplace "culture of purpose" as well as a high-functioning board.
An attorney for Rodger's father said Rodger was diagnosed as a high-functioning patient with Asperger's syndrome and had trouble making friends.
They become a couple — not in the way the widowed Mrs. Lovett would like, but as a high-functioning duo of serial killers.
Daniel Tammet's bestselling 2006 memoir "Born on a Blue Day" documented his life as a high-functioning autistic savant and synesthete whose extraordinary mind processes the world through patterns and numbers (he once set a record for memorizing more than twenty-two thofsand digitheof the number pi).
