Do people talk down to you?

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Yes, most of my life. With age, I have learned to just brush it off because for whatever f*d up reason, in this culture sensitivity and honesty are seen as weaknesses. My goal has been to nip it in the bud, but I really don't like making a big deal of it unless someone is being really rude/mean on purpose.

At any rate, people usually under-estimate me because I never feel the need to fill the air with talk about myself. I get a kick out of watching their jaws drop when I whip out a new bit of knowledge or talent. Just this week at work, I casually mentioned that I want to go back to school for neuroscience. In the whole year I've been there, people have never been as respectful as they have been these last few days. Ha--point for me!

Certain people talk down to almost everybody. A few seem to talk down more to me than to others.

A lot of people think I talk down to them.

Only until I started confronting them about it, "I am eighteen years old! Talk to me like an adult!" EVERYONE talked down to me as a child and teen.

Yes, people have done this to me and at times I deeply resent this because I feel when people talk down to me they went behind my back.

It seems like a lot of NTs are incapable of talking without talking down to others, yet when you call them out on it they can always deny it and claim that you're reading something that isn't there. They just want to pee on your leg and then tell you it's raining.

I didn't get a diagnosis when I went in for an evaluation, so I'm not going to tell people I have AS if I haven't been diagnosed. Anyway, I'm too well-spoken to give anyone the impression that I'm worth talking down to. I imagine I'm seen as bright, but aloof. Those moody musicians...

Yes I have experienced this many times. I have had the usual condesending smiles, people laughing in my face, stares and just general looks that say you are lesser than me. I have had conversations with me cut off mid sentince when some other perceived to be higher ranking NT walks along.
Its ironic because I know I can do so much better at a lot of things than these NTs who look down at me. To me they are stupid, and they show it all the more by the way they need to reinforce themselves by putting others down, who can perhaps do better than them. With their stock standard mass produced pack mentality they will remain ignorant to their own foolishness, while laughing in your face.

No. Usually I get yelled at to be more normal. Being talked down to would suck though.

People in positions of power like doctors and teachers have always talked down to me. I like to call it their power trip. Perhaps they do it to everyone because they're so high on the power, but I get the feeling that they do it even more to me because they think maybe I am an easier target because I have Asperger's. I despise these people even more than they despise me however. They're worth less to me than I am worth to them. That's what keeps me going, knowing that they really are lower than I am.

A lot of kids in my elementary school (I'm now a middle schooler) talked down to me. They would either talk to me like I was a baby, or they would say that I couldn't help having mental problems.

"I like to call it their power trip."

That's what it's all about. These terms (AS, NLD, ADHD, ODD, CD, BPD) exist more for the professionals then they do for the actual patients themselves. They just want to get a better reputation and advance in their field so they come up with these labels and lead parents to believe their children are disabled and that they are not capable of taking care of themselves.

This has happened before with me.They either think that they are far superior in terms of their success or just envious of what are you skilled at.
The reality is that they are no better than anyone else.

Absolutely. When I do things like receiving an object with my hands, the person say: "Great! You are a good girl!"
I really do have problems accepting to hold something in my hands, but I still consider this as talking down to me.