What have you been mistaken for?

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As someone who has Asperger's, or in my case may have it, what have people assumed was 'wrong with you?' This included both insults and well-intended conjecture.

for someone who gives a f***

people usually assume I didn't hear them and keep repeating their question or their assault or whatever when if fact I'm just ignoring them.

stand-offish, rude, shy, nuts....

rude, anti-social, angry at the person... that I don't like people, which is not true for all of them!

OCD, brattiness, shyness, being "too smart", or being nerdy. Also the generic "weird", which is quite true

Eccentric, weird, lazy, rude, selfish, bad attitude, shy, introverted, perfectionist, extremely thorough, detail-oriented, difficult to work with, immature, "need to have your head examined" (heard that one a lot from my mother), "just like your father" (Mom again), brusque, "ants in the pants", disruptive, aloof, loner, procrastinator...

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'll probably remember more later, though.

EDIT: Corrected wrong possessive pronoun in Mom's quote--she'd never forgive me otherwise!

Weird, scary, a freak, schizophrenic, shy, crazy, a loser...

gay, foreign, on drugs, arrogant, a good listener, & just plain odd.

schizophrenic, psycho, psychopath, sick b***h, tormenter, split personality and a ret*d
so not true. i am not a ret*d. People who go through lots of trauma there mind shuts down. Same with people with depression.

Discriminate against me as*holes. They regret
am yes so sweet and innocent I come across. Wouldnt hurt no one until people get on the wrong side of me I am a different person. I even scare myself. Its so funny for some one to act like a smartass, walking aroung thinking they real good and then your temper shows and they so s**t scared. You loser. you really f****d with the wrong person

Crazy, ret*d, gifted (with any and all social and communication problems being said to stem from that), willfully strange (maybe she'll stop if we stop giving her attention), dumb, easy target, etc. Several different flavors of crazy among those who did their speculation officially rather than unofficially.

What have I been mistaken for?

Most notably, a narcotics cop. I've even received death threats from people whose friends and relatives have gone to prison for drug dealing.

Otherwise, I've often been mistaken for someone who cares.

Poor fnord. You are different than me and I think 'what's he garna post next' but i only been a lil bit wary cause I think you are very intelligent.
I mean, I dont really know you, I just think you are very smart person and you seem like you can be very self controlled.

OCD (I am nothing like OCD!), crazy, either really imtelligent or really stupid (I have average intelligence), immature, brat...

Gay mainly. Everyone is convinced I'm gay. Yeah, I'm as camp as hell, but not gay.

When I was younger, people who didn't know me would ask if I was a grad student.

Since my hair has turned gray, in most situations where people don't know me they might ask if I'm school teacher

but when I'm being interviewed by medical staff I've never met before they ask if I'm a nurse.