Do people treat you like a baby?

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I go to high school. my whole schooling career people have been treating me like im slow or im like a little baby. When they say hi to me they talk to me like a toddler or a ret*d kid that barely understands what their saying , especially the girls. they are super polite to me, like they think im some cute puppy dog and dont play around or flirt with me like the other guys. nobody takes what i say seriously, when i say something theyll all be like "awww, did you her what he said. hee hee that was nice". i know aspies have social problems,i have trouble socializing, but i just dont get it. do they think im dumb or socially naive or someting?

Yes, typically they do, especially my grandparents, or they just act conspicuously overly nice, with most other people Im either given the cold shoulder or an insult.

And to answer your question, yes chances are they dont realize that your not stupid. Its the worst feeling in the world.

I'm exacty the same way. Except my grandparents are all dead.

I envy you, I cant stand having to care about people who supposidly love you but never take you seriously and always treat you like your something less than human.

Yes! I just ahd an IEP because i'm switching schools. the school districts therapist/whatever had to be there. thery talk like i'm so little. baby talk. yuck.

get used to it,

I have total strangers treat me like I am a child... and I have been a adult for 40 years.

There is something to my face. ..maybe it is because I don't do the 'face dance' of non verbal communication that suggests to them that I have childlike qualities.
This is a double edged sword, as it keeps us looking very young, with fewer wrinkles until well into your later years.

Unless you've happened to look at least 3 years older than you really are since you were 11. Welcome to my world.

Though I'm not consistently treated like a child; I'm just as likely to get a look that suggests I've demonstrated insanity, even though I've just said something logical and not done anything out of the social norm that I'm aware of.

And other times, I come across so convincingly mature that people are shocked to learn that I'm 10 years younger than they thought.

Or that I'm a sales floor grunt instead of a manager.

Or that despite my height and "handsomeness" I've never even kissed a girl and once got so frustrated with my incelness that I sealed the deal to save my virginity for the grave with an impulsive castration attempt.

Of course, I've never told anyone about that last one in person.

And I MIGHT be able to fix that if I can get some good health insurance. Or win the lottery. Or get reincarnated.


Maybe some people can just smell my giant Transformer collection on me.

I really should have changed my avatar to something other than Soundwave for this post. I'm not worthy.

Whats your avatar of anyway? It looks neat.

Whose, mine?

It's a screencap from the Transformers episode: "Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2". I got it off Razormoon's site.

The Decepticons were winning over humanity with a PR campaign, which included about 10 seconds of Soundwave and his cassettebots (his children, presumably)attending some high school dance.

I chose it because a 30 foot tall robot with a metal jaguar and two condors that can randomly pop out of his chest, crouching down to make small talk with human teenagers sums up how awkward I feel at any party or large gathering.

Sorry you have squint to see it.

no, more like a clumsy basketball player

I'm a banquet waiter, and my "customers" seem to be very nice to me, but I think that's because they believe I'm so young. I've had people think I'm 12 years old, even though I'm too tall for someone that age, and I'm 19! I do feel like I'm being treated like a little kid sometimes, but I probably bring it upon myself. I don't exactly like to act all professional. I like to keep my individuality.

People are like that with me. I'm 25 years old but people think I'm 15. It drives me nuts at work since everyone wants to treat me like crap and belittle me.

I make myself stay out of the parent's discussion because they don't wanna talk to me! I post on other boards of autistic or asperger's and they make polite comments but no one asks me how it is from my side of the great divide. I am astonished, then astounded that no one, not one would pull me aside and say, hey, what would have helped you?
And when I have offered the information, I got no takers. and not just on this board. In real time I have co workers that have AS children and my diagnosis is known to them and they avoid me, studiously. I used to hurt, but now I know. . .

I am not an adult in their eyes either, I am one that remembers their freak outs and their corporal punishments, their slaps and their dispair. . they can't talk to me. . .I am the rememberer.
They don't dare look me in the eyes because one always dispises whom one wrongs.

DAMN.

I mean, I can totally relate, but maybe I've actually had it relatively good...

Oh you just reminded me. I used to love trolling the parent's board just because. I don't think I've done that once since I've been back. It's by far the most NT board on here, and the parents frequently act like it and remind me of my parents.

For my birthday, Flakey's family gave me all "kids" gifts...it was sorta funny, but they also tend to talk to me like a child. I got a kid craft kit and cutsey kid stickers with my name on them and a letter "O" (my first name is olivia) that would be hung in an baby's nursery..(has a teddy bear on it)....stuff like that. (I am 32)

I have been called an "8 year old" before....And I have had people talk to me like I am a child.