My friend is different, so what?

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Here's something I really hate: how those kids pick on my friend (who has AS) at school on a daily basis. He can sometimes blurt out random stuff and some other stuff like that and I always feel sorry for him everyday

PS: If you wanna know how my class is like, my friend described it like "a mix of autism people and jail people (I'll probably explain that later)".

Stand up for him then if he is your friend.

My friend Patrick stood up for me once when I was in dumps in NJROTC early senior year.

Uhhhh...I don't know how.

Well don't what those kids first off.

Second, you tell them to stop and talk to them about how they will feel if they were pick on for something odd they do.

Thats what I suggest but its foolproof.

Any other WP members have suggestions?

You could try defeating their petty name-calling with far more eloquent rebuttals. Granted, if they're the type that hate these as well and continue to say you're an idiot, than ignore them. It can be tough, but that really is the best course of action (for me at least). Their lack of concern will bite them back sooner or later.

Speak the truth about your friend and how good of a friend he is. And say how it really upsets you that these close minded people are ridiculing him.

I agree, stand up for him if you can do so without compromising your safety. When I was in 5th grade, another kid stood up for me against some of the kids that were always mean to me. I still remember it-- and I'm almost 24!

That will give them more of a reason to pick on him, Face.

I know that personally because there an jerk on my college who mocks for my former nasally voice, he still does it and it only proves he became stupid for it. My AS didn't helped much in my case but I don't personally know what the guy thinks of me now.

Even people in NJROTC teased for it a bit but I took their punches and prove them all wrong that I rise to the challenge to earn my rank of ensign.

There was a situation like this when I was at school. I was in a class for "behaviorally and socially challenged" students when I was 12 and there was a few AS in the class including myself [which I didn't know I was at the time anyway].
I used to talk to this girl named Jenna at breaks who obviously had something "off" with her. We weren't friends but I think she liked talking to me because I was nice to her and everyone else was mean to her. One day I didn't see her sitting where she usually sits at breaks and I decided to go into class and get my bag to get my drink bottle and have a drink. I opened the class door and this other girl named Valu [also a member of my class] grabbed Jenna and slammed her head into the corner of the computer desk and it was bleeding afterwards. I ran in the class to get Jenna and take her to the first aid office and told Valu to get outside [in which she to my surprise listened!].
This was obviously at the extreme end of bullying...but it's an example of something I hate which is non acceptance.

Just tell them what there doing isnt nice and there the ones with the problem if they are mean to somebody just because there different from them.

you can't be reasonable with them and you surely can't tell them something in the lines of: how would you feel if someone were to pick on you?
they'll only laugh at your pathetic attempts

you have to find their weak points and crush the bastards so that they'll cry at nights for years to come.

easier said than done but they won't stop it unless it's made horribly unplesant for them