Aspies mockery at uni and college

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Un-bel-iev-eable!

I saw this advertisement earlier today at the food court noticeboard on campus is quite offensive to aspies and autism people. Its really shocking as public display.



Its not funny at all. Its severely stupid and offensive. I quickly grab this off the noticeboard as I saw it. I am going to report to the uni council and the HR people. Hope the people who did this will be shot in head!

THIS IS PURE ANSWER OF WHY ALL OF US ASPIES ARE FINDING OURSELVES DIFFICULT IS BECAUSE THE 'NORM' PEOPLE ARE GIVING US BAD LIFE! Do not kill yourself please. We definitely not making this world bad. Aspies are not disability! There are no such form disability in the world. The only classified disability is BAD ATTITUDE!! !

I died a little inside when I saw this. As an older Aspie, it's hard to imagine what young people have to go through today, with autism being in the public eye. You have the right attitude, don't let those ignorant people get you down!

There are people who are horrible in the world, and people who are mentally ill and do horrible things.

They would have written something vile about many targets so don't take it personally. They are messed up and stupid, and they would have written the same vile stuff to be anti-female, anti-gay, anti-muslim... etc etc.

Dont let this make you generalise it as NT, its sadly human. There are lots of vile, nasty, sexist, mesognistic, men in this world, but I still love the wonderful men.

Go and find a nice person to boost yourself and dont let it make you anti -NT, else the person who did this has won.

Excessive and unnecessary. The very top line was funny, but then I see the unnecessary link to autism. I'm sure there are many NT brownies.

This was likely done by someone who is quite immature and who still thinks he is in high school. Sadly though, many males do things like this and I have a theory about it. It's all about trying to prove yourself more worth of mating by dismissing other people from being worthy of mating. Just like in nature where male animals fight for dominance, so do males in human society try to beat down others so that they can prove themselves the superior animal to the females.

That's very sexist to assume it was a male. Women can be just as rude.

Yep. In fact, most of the bullying I've ever encountered was from women, even ones notably older than me in college... If you didn't fit in with their #W$%#@%#$#! !! social groups, you'd be ostracized, mocked and publicly ridiculed. The need for social grouping for them is as essential as breathing - our lack of requirement for their social circles or just being different in general is an extreme offense to them! The socialite women were definitely the ringleaders (but not the only ones) in making my college life hell. My wife (at the time) just though I "wasn't trying hard enough..." *sigh*

It carried on to the workplace too... I suspect it'll be the same when I eventually reach an old-folks' home. The world belongs to the "socialites" - even when they have no discernable skills.

At first I thought it was them defacing a poster for an AS support group. It's about My Little Pony. It's obviously somebody who hates the show. They could easily have done the same thing to a Star Trek club poster. It was pretty stupid and immature though. The only thing I could see them being able to do something to them about was the "Autism Club" they wrote on there, as being offensive to autistics.

Personally, I've never watched the show, although my daughters did, and I've bought many, many MLP toys at the store for them.

I would just try to forget it if I were you. I think that was their unsophisticated way of trying to say that fans are nerds.

I am reporting this to student council and my counsellor tomorrow. This is deadset serious issue for the uni. I am not happy. I find out why aspies like me couldn't fit in anything at uni, because of this poor demanding 'disability' attitude from NTs.

I have a feeling that people are blaming me secretly. Hence I couldn't go out and hang with people. I am initially rejected and left behind. Usually Im always the last person to be chosen. Its not nice. I have a good advice for you high schoolers rest of the world. Uni world is a lot worst than you thought! You need a gun to protect/defence yourself.

I wonder if you would've reacted as badly if the word "Autism" was replaced by "Gay"?

I think this is more against MLP than autism. I didn't see AS mentioned anywhere.

You can't make people like a show they don't like, nor can you make them not dislike or look down on it. There are shows I hate, and shows you hate. Of course neither of us would do something as stupid as what they did, but some people are idiots.

Say it was a club for people who like football, and it was defaced with things like "Neanderthal jocks!" and "brain dead beer swilling idiots". Would you have seen the problem as something that serious? If a friend of yours liked football would you feel bad for him because of the poster? I seriously think it's about the show, not about anyone personally. I also think it was probably just stupid kids doing it.

Seeing as how they also called them less than human, I think most people would. Yet, few people (other than on here) will make a fuss about laughing at autistics.

You'd think that college/uni people would be just a *little* more mature by that age....

Are you kidding?

I was up at the high school taking something to my daughter so I had to go to her locker with her. Classes were changing and the one class of special kids came out, lined up and following the teacher. Almost every kid they passed said "hey" or slapped hands with them or fist bumped them. I mentioned to my daughter that I was happy to see them not be made fun of and she said "What the hell Mom??? Who would do that? Nobody here would do that, everybody is nice to them and talks to them."

One of the boys in the group that hung out with my kids is an aspie. And my kids are actually in one of the most popular groups. Even the cheerleaders, who are (in my mind anyway) notorious for being mean, are nice to the special kids. And not in a condescending way either.

Also my kids have gay friends in their group and nobody makes fun of them, and there's a deaf kid and nobody makes fun of him. My daughter went to her prom with her fiance, but they double dated with her friend who is a lesbian and her date who is a black girl. Nobody said anything. I was worried about flack at the prom because of the same sex thing, but there wasn't.

Maybe it's backlash for how some of the parents are, but the kids down here seem to be way more accepting of everyone than they did in my generation.

That's true... kids today accept pretty much anything and everything it seems... [shrug]
20+ years ago when I was in high school, the mentally-challenged group were certainly NOT accepted as one of the other kids... nor could they even begin to function as normal person. And they were teased when out of earshot, along with anyone else not in the "cool group".

Considering how many late-teens are on here complaining they were still bullied makes me think maybe you just have an awesome (but very isolated) group.

Also, we are out in the country. It is isolated, but they are aware that stuff goes on in other places. I think it's more of an "us against them" thing with all the kids in the county. Sort of like their one big thing in common, being from here and having to live in the middle of nowhere, is more important and more of a bond than any differences. Also most have known each other all their lives. You go to kindergarden with the same people you graduate high school with and you probably went to day care or church with them too and you are kin to at least 1/4 of them.

As much as I hate it out here, there are some good things to be said for it.

You have to remember that the country status of Australia is incredibly so far behind than USA, UK, China and other fully developed nations.

I never seen anyone who being together as disabilities with non disability people during my high school and uni years. Lot of aspies and other disabled people were being bullied, harassed, discriminated and assaulted. It is less physical at the uni of course, but the verbal and immaturity still takes account on those disabilities as a big deal problem to the society. I am having trouble making friends, not like your daughter does. I am incredibly shocked that Australia education and manners is nowhere near as USA or even UK. I am fairly disappointed with lack of education about disabilities to the rest of the population.

Plenty drunk people here on campus always have direct intentions about disability or autism mockery. They never stop being like that. It is really rude to me. But I am very proud of myself I'm not like them. But still, it does not solve the problem which I am not happy with. Now, I am fearing this issue for the people who I am going to career workplace and working holiday trip. I do not have enough social status to sparkle myself as bright friend to new people because lack of acceptance of my conditions during high school and uni years are not taking consideration to improve my results for future consequences.

Postgraduate students here have fairly different attitude to most of undergraduates which I am happy with. So, I am going to take to student council and counsellors tomorrow about this issue, and I am going to ask them if I need to make a video documentary for the uni about how those autistics and other disabled people feel about lack of acceptance and respect from the rest of the university population. Hope this needed to be done and also hopefully catch up with other nations' standards.