Are you ever mistaken for being stupid and/or crazy?

Page 1 of 3 [ 36 posts ] Go to page 1, 2, 3 Next

Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 9

15 May 2007, 1:30 pm

My therapist told me that it's common for people with Aspergers who make an attempt to lead a normal life to be mistaken as either crazy or stupid. Have any of you had any experience with this?

I post on a prominent message board, and many of the people there think I'm crazy. Most people at my place of employment also think I'm crazy, a smaller number of them think I'm stupid. People who know me personally know that this is not the case.

Have others had these kind of misperceptions about them?

Kilroy
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 24 Apr 2007
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Posts: 11,549
Location: Beyond the Void

15 May 2007, 1:34 pm

on forums people usually hate me-and I am surprised when I am liked by everyone (it's happened like twice)
people often think I'm stupid :roll: when I'm really not

sounded
Tufted Titmouse

Joined: 24 Apr 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 37

15 May 2007, 1:40 pm

Mistaken?

Never.

_________________
"But what if everybody else thought the same way you did?"

"Then I'd be a damned fool to think any different."

Kosmonaut
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 14 Sep 2006
Gender: Male
Posts: 2,253

15 May 2007, 1:42 pm

I tend to keep to myself nowadays.
But, people have thought me to be 'simple' in the past. I mean, everything is either black or white, it's a simple attitude; i think it's quite zen-like.
Either that or a weirdo; i been thinking lately that i may appear to people to be more f****d up than i realise.
Not that i care :lol:

Avian
Deinonychus

Joined: 2 Apr 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 383

15 May 2007, 1:45 pm

Ferretball wrote:

My therapist told me that it's common for people with Aspergers who make an attempt to lead a normal life to be mistaken as either crazy or stupid.

She knows what she's talking about.

Quote:

I post on a prominent message board, and many of the people there think I'm crazy. Most people at my place of employment also think I'm crazy, a smaller number of them think I'm stupid.

I can relate thoroughly.

Quote:

People who know me personally know that this is not the case.

I'm jealous.

_________________
░░▒▒▓▓██▓▓▒▒░░

ChrissandraChrissamba
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 31 Mar 2007
Age: 101
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,256

15 May 2007, 2:24 pm

Oh yes. People do often think I am either stupid or crazy. Unfortunately for me, I think the latter might actually be true.

Last edited by ChrissandraChrissamba on 15 May 2007, 11:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Sopho
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 3 Apr 2007
Gender: Female
Posts: 10,859

15 May 2007, 2:26 pm

Yes, all through school and sometimes still.

Raph522
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 4 May 2006
Gender: Female
Posts: 13,717

15 May 2007, 2:29 pm

I am mistaken for both

sounded wrote:

Mistaken?

Never.

Haha

_________________
snowcone

phenomenon
Pileated woodpecker

Joined: 5 Apr 2007
Gender: Female
Posts: 196

15 May 2007, 2:55 pm

Whenever I'm outgoing and outspoken (especially in my younger years), people called me "Crazy Liz". When I'm quiet and say things only occasionally (without further elaborating or explaining my reasoning, or without people being familiar enough with me to understand the context), I'm considered stupid and taken advantage of.

iceb
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 26 Apr 2007
Age: 67
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,562
Location: London UK

15 May 2007, 2:55 pm

Often!

People who take the time to know me usually learn I'm not.

_________________
Wisdom must be gathered, it cannot be given.

RadiationHazard
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 9 Apr 2007
Gender: Male
Posts: 521
Location: Florida

15 May 2007, 3:21 pm

Stupid? No.
Crazy? No.

Stupid AND Crazy? Yup.

_________________
Dr. House: I assume 'minimal at best' is your stiff upper lip British way of saying "no chance in hell."

Dr. Chase: I'm Australian.

Dr. House: You put the Queen on your money, you're British.

scrulie
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Age: 56
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,738
Location: Kent, UK

15 May 2007, 3:22 pm

Oh yes. Both, at different times.

_________________
*it's been lovely but I have to scream now*

girl7000
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 10 Mar 2007
Gender: Female
Posts: 659
Location: Somewhere in the Atlantic

15 May 2007, 3:27 pm

Ferretball wrote:

I've had this happen a lot! It's like people just can't cope with behaviour that is 'different' or that they don't understand or are not used to.

I often get spoken to like a 5 year old by people - either that or they are rude because they don't count AS as a 'legitimate' disability.

Sedaka
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 16 Jul 2006
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Posts: 4,597
Location: In the recesses of my mind

15 May 2007, 3:43 pm

i get mistaken for tired or austere...aloof

they're prolly right more often than not if they say crazy and/or stupid lol

_________________
Neuroscience PhD student

got free science papers?

www.pubmed.gov
www.sciencedirect.com
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

Mitch8817
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 3 Apr 2006
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,881
Location: Victoria, Australia

15 May 2007, 3:44 pm

I ask stupid questions and do crazy things on occasion, but I wouldn't be defined by them.

_________________
"Pray...NOW!" -Auron, before Bushido attack

Starbuline
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 25 Sep 2006
Gender: Female
Posts: 7,577
Location: .....Russia

15 May 2007, 3:45 pm

People think I'm stupid and crazy.

Page 1 of 3 [ 36 posts ] Go to page 1, 2, 3 Next

Jump to:

Are you ever mistaken for being stupid and/or crazy? Post Reply New Topic

Are you ever mistaken for being stupid and/or crazy?