"He's like a big kid." Is this how people think of us?

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"people" sounds like seven billion, but means two or more


A disproportionate number of autistics have no friends or job or spouse

Yes it's what alot of people think of us. When you have a president who likes to make fun of disabled people and now wants to spy on us on social media to weed us out of benefits programs alot of us need to survive, why should this be at all surprising? Especially in the workplace where, frankly, it's generally as if not more competitive than in society at large (speaking only about the US). Saying we're like big children is probably one of the milder things she could've said and one of the milder things alot of NTs think.

In those situations I say,

"Well, I quite like him/her".

Not delivered in a confrontational way, just in passing.

It's usually enough to stop people from gossiping and won't lead to a confrontation.

Reporting your colleague could backfire on you.

I think I'm sometimes like a big kid or sometimes like an old man who just wants a simple life and to be left alone. I always seem to act older or younger than my age.

I like to be seen as a person people can rely upon.

I am not often seen in this light.

I am seen as somebody who would buckle under pressure, and who is a "lightweight" in general.

I've made some stupid mistakes----and I'm still making them.

At least now I can see the mistakes, and try to rectify them.

My mother doesn't really think I'm "solid." She thinks I'm sort of the type that doesn't assert himself. And that I assert myself in the wrong places.