Explaining Asperger's

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Here's what I'm doing.

Say you're doing a survey and ask "Do you know what Asperger's is?"

If they say yes, ask a question or two about AS just to make sure they know what they are saying yes to. If they no, briefly describe it.

Now, if they ask why you are saying that, if you're good friends with them, you may say that you have it. If you just aren't comfortable with admitting it, just say a close family friend has it.

You could talk to your health teacher after school and ask him/her to explain that you have Asperger's Syndrome. If he doesn't know what Asperger's Syndrome is, tell him that it's a disability that affects social skills. Tell him some things that people with Asperger's Syndrome might do (like not look at people when they talk to them or change the subject of a conversation randomly).

To be honest i wouldn't because of my experiences, i told one class and they didn't believe me. I asked a teacher next time and they spent a period describing aspergers syndrome and talking about it and then they just left the class and hoped they would put two and two together. Some of them did, one boy made fun of me and kept asking me if i was 'special' -_- ,another boy stuck up for me and told people to 'leave me alone, she can't help it' this boy used to bully me but he apologised and now were friends!. My little brother just told his class and got the teacher to explain it, they were all cool with it but he got some hassle that year.
Also, you might find some people are resentful at the fact you can be so 'rude' (hah!) and get away with it, some people might say your making it up. But if you have good friends, a supportive class and your ready to tell them go for it!.

My son did something simular when he started at a new school. He would of been about 8 or 9 and his teacher thought he would be helpful for him to explain is conditions and how he feels to the class. the other kids asked questions and he felt it helped quite a bit

I've only tried to explain to my friends, so it went like this:
"You know how I have no social skills?"
"Yeah, we all know."
"Turns out it's a real thing."
"Oh. *promptly forgets*"

Sorry, I didn't read that you needed to explain it to your English (not health) class. You could do the same thing, except that you'd do it to your English teacher.

The reason I believe people with Asperger's get bullied is because all the kids at school, Don't know "what" you are... Under the assumption that you act very different to the other students. NT (for some reason...) ALWAYS get into other people business and want to know pointless and irrelevant information about people and there live, Now when meeting other people in the NT mind they think about you, they say "holding a book = nerd",Neat hand writing, Cute, ect... But when they see you, they are confused and loss. That like giving Abraham Lincoln an Iphone and saying call me.
Now one of the most common thing that they will notice is you don't show much emotion, some people will just for some reason want to make you laugh, some scared and others anger. To better understand you.

I could write more but non of this is real fact, Just what I have learned and thought of observation.

tell you maybe weird but their ugly to their core and shallow and totally just carbon copies of a pathetic loser that's always going to be to boring to ever be noticed for the rest of their lives and if they don't like you that they could at least try a little bit harder or at least some f*****g respect but you always hate every last 1 of them and always be real hateful cruel and snide to them and laugh in their faces about their worst qualities and never even acknowledge any of their good 1s

the old saying is good to: you laugh because I'm different, I laugh because your all the same. a lot of aggression and hostility packed into those words, will really be hurtful and make them feel like total s**t.

as you can probably tell I don't have anything but cruelty and hatred for enemies.

You have to make it seem like a "cool" thing. What's something that you can do really well, possibly better than most NT's? Make that the main focus of your explanation, and people will see you as "that cool kid who can do that cool thing" instead of "that special ed kid who is stupid".

Like when I had to explain my AS to my class in 5th grade, I pointed out the fact that I have perfect pitch (the ability to tell you what a note is without a reference note) and talked about that a lot, and how it contributes to my atypical musical ability. I also told them how if people actually got to know me, they would probably like me. It worked for almost everyone (of course, you'll always have the kids whose goal is to bully ANYONE for ANYTHING, so just ignore them).

The point is: Make them remember you for something awesome about you, rather than something "bad" about you (likely it's not bad at all, but kids at that age will pick on anything they can find in someone just to make themselves feel better about themselves).

if you feel like you absolutely would have to tell everyone (which you may feel like idk) just try to put it in YOUR words.

for instance.. if i were about to do this , instead of telling them "blah blah blah it is a mental disorder etc etc" (i think most NT's instantly would classify you into the "crazies"), i would just tell everyone how *I* view it -- "hello i have aspergers :3, i view everything from a very strange perspective that you arent likely to understand,"

first thing first...is it really easy for others to tell that you are different???
if no, then i suggest you dont tell anyone about it..with me not many people can tell that i have aspeger they just think i am strange,so i dont tell them.

If the answer is yes, then the best way i explane it is in pictures. ask your teacher if you can use the white board. The best way i can explain aspeger is that it is a social disoder where the people who have it have a different view on the world to others. I wrote this whole long speach on it that i had to present to a univercity class. i was in a support group of high school students and we went to uni's and talked to the students.

well let me know how it goes