Funniest questions people have asked you about AS

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I've gotten "Oh I'm so sorry" "I feel sorry for you." "I feel bad for you."

Not questions, just pity. It used to surprise me but not anymore. But I don't understand why people would feel bad for me having it. Like they caused me to have it

But these things are rare because I rarely tell people.

"That's no excuse. You know, they DO have treatments for autism. You aren't the only one who has it"

Soon after i was diagnosed, one person i told about it said that i should get a second opinion... Because apparently she had taken a psychology class at some point, and couldn't have AS because people with AS don't care about others and have problems with speech. I can kind of understand how someone might jump to the "don't care about others" conclusion from the whole "lacking empathy" thing... But i'd never associated speech problems with AS at all.. Most aspies seem to speak really well. Sure, there can be issues with tone of voice, volume, pauses, etc., but she seemed to be talking more about speech impediments than problems with the social use of speech.. because I said that the only speech problems i knew of were things like not knowing what to say or going on about the same thing for too long, and she said that she was talking about the actual speech itself. So, uh, yeah.
I told one person i know recently about my AS, and that it's a form of autism and all of that... And she said that i seemed fine and that she didn't understand how a professional could diagnose me with any kind of autism.. because an autistic kid goes to her church, or something like that, and i don't act like that person. And that was kind of funny, because this person who was saying this seems to have quite a few spectrum-y traits herself.

they ask me "how come i dont have a helmet on and druling all over the place?''

apparently people with aspergers have super strength :S

When we did baron cohen in psychology a boy asked the teacher if autistic people communicate with eachother telepathically. *Facepalm* I said nothing though.
One girl asked if autsitics have emotions, I said "I heard that they often have very intense emotions" I said they because I didn't want them to know, when really it was an anecdote in disguise.
I once spoke to a girl in school who's had an on/off relationship with an aspie and knows another who's my best friend, anyway she said that AS is when you hit people if they touch you.
My girl best friend said she watched rainman and said "wow I'd love to have a genius in my family!", atleast that was a postitive thing to say. But some time before I got rainman on DVD for my 15th(?) birthday and I told my friend's dad about the DVD's I got and stuff, and my friend asked "what's rainman about" and her dad said something along the lines of, "it's about this div... etc" I know Rainman is a fictional character (and a pretty bad portrayal at that) but I couldn't help but think "charmin!" at the word div, only I can use div thank you very much.

@ blackmetal, really? If anything we're wimps XD

"So you count your clothes before you leave the house?"

I don't have anything funny to share here, because, being kind of not-quite-maybe-sort-of-I-don't-know on the spectrum, I've never told anyone I'm autistic.

But I just wanted to say something in defense of the people who say all those silly things. People, in general, don't know anything about autism except what one or two tiny little things they happened to see. In all fairness, you really can't expect people to know any better. Why would they?

I have a vague memory of seeing a movie about autism in school. This would have been in the mid-seventies. I remember that they showed a little boy who was alone in an empty room. He was sitting on the floor, doing some kind of rocking stim. The voice-over talked about how a kid like that was completely isolate from the rest of the world. No one could ever get in and he could never get out. (I'm sure he was thrilled about the camera crew in his house.)

Years later, I saw "Rainman," and was introduced to the idea that some autistic people could talk.

So, at that point, the one constant was that "ALL" autistic people stimmed and didn't look at you. I saw a guy rocking back and forth on the bus, and concluded he must be autistic, but other than that, I never encountered anyone who I would have guessed was autistic.

Decades later, when my own son (who could talk perfectly, looked me in the eye, and didn't rock) was diagnosed with a form of autism, I learned that it's a spectrum with many colors. If I didn't have my son, I'd still be thinking that autism is defined by that narrow definition that I had before. And if I would have heard of asperger's by now, I'd probably just think it was a "diagnosis du jour", and not even bother to learn more. I would have no particular reason to think otherwise.