Aspies have it as bad as blacks, gays/lesbians

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^ He didnt write that someone else did

Hmmm....

I think the problems aspies face are so vastly different from the problems other minority groups face that it isn't too constructive to try to compare them.

Most significantly, aspies are disliked as individuals, without anybody even considering that they might be part of any group.

The vast majority of the people who dislike aspies have never heard of asperger's, and I've personally been around people who were aware of asperger's who didn't like me any better than anybody else, for the same reason as everybody else.

I doubt if any of the "mental health professionals" who are supposedly knowledgeable about asperger's spend time with aspies when they're not getting paid to.

Sure, the enlightened liberals aren't any better in how they treat us, but neither are the conservatives and the libertarians any better than the liberals. Rednecks or hippies, Unitarians or Pentecostals, urban or rural, it don't matter. Nobody's on our side.

We're just individuals that other individuals don't like, don't trust, and don't consider worthy of respect.

Unfortunately, the same trait's that make aspies unappealing make us less than influential. It's difficult to imagine an aspie equivalent to Martin Luther King, or even the gay or black person that people grudgingly like, and attitudes start to change.

I wish I had some good ideas on how to make things better, but I don't.

If this is in relation to my last post I was being sarcastic

I cannot agree with the don't trust and don't respect. The reason we are generally not liked is because we can be bloody annoying, our penchant for rules and worrying about unimportant minutiae along with our failure to read facial expressions, bluntness and lack of empathy, not to mention our self absorption is it really any wonder that we get picked on. I do not think it has anything to do with physical traits, there are plenty of other disorders with far more pronounced physical traits than ours that get along fine. Why? because in general they do not annoy the s**t out of people.

Aside from my social annoyances people trust me and have respect for my abilities

That. is because they got past the annoyances and got to know you

ruveyn

Absolutely, though they still roll their eyes occasionally

dude you are totally right. unless my palm counts as a person, i am a virgin (im not talking about a palm piolet lol) and i always wondered, if black voters stopped the gay marrige thing in california earlier this year, what about gay blacks? lol.