Has anyone taken you less seriously because thye knew you ha

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I have some acquaintances who sorta figured it out and now they sorta treat me with kid gloves....In some ways it is good, because for one thing, they have stopped always insisting on hugging me because they now understand why/how it makes me uncomfortable...
On the other hand...they can be a little unneccesarily cautious about things around me

I try to avoid telling people because I am not diagnosed, but sometimes it might slip out.
I don't say "I Have Aspergers"....I say I identify with or have alot of things in common people who are on the autistic spectrum....

And sometimes I feel the need to explain something...especially when I get particularly melty or overly anxious/spazzy and people don't know what is going on with me.

i have gotten some positive responses from some aquaintances because they now knew why I sometimes act strange and distant, and in many cases not even recognise them....There is one in particular who I am referring to who has AS friends...and he said he even suspected that there might be something like that going on with me...so it was nice to have some understanding on the matter.

Then there was the time when this other acquaintance laughed in my face when I brought it up and it really hurt my feelings....She had been talking about her schitzophrenia...and I mentioned possibly being on the spectrum...big mistake...

They could demand to see your medical records here in the U.S., but some medical professionals are quite reticent to opening up their patient's records without consent from the patient.

I don't believe it as simple as just demanding to see the records.

My former wife requested my medical records from a couple of medical professionals that have worked with me.
They all called me to alert me to that fact, and they all said they did not want to open my records to my wife or her lawyer.
My lawyer jumped on this right away and the whole issue was dropped.

I know some medical records have been brought up in court before, but I also know that some doctors would fight to not give up that information, for the sake of not only that particular patient, but for their other patients as well.

I double-checked the definition of 'condescending', and it appears that you mean to say that your friends were treatingyou as if you were superior. When I read your post, I thought you meant to say that they were treating you inferior, which made more sense to me.

I've read all of the posts in this thread, and...

...I am once again reminded why I never tell people that I have AS.
I'm in High School, and every teacher who has and/or will teach me is aware of it, but I don't tell other students, not even my friends...

No, it hasn't. Usually people won't guess I have Aspergers until I tell them, and they have their own opinions about me before that. Teachers are different though, and I could rant on about this one teacher who was pure evil, but I'll save that for another day

Call me a spammer or a ret*d or at risk of getting banned or just plain developmentally delayed, but I still need to be reassured, like a little kid that sees monsters under the bed, that nobody's going to come get me in a paddywagon, nobody's goiong to put me in a forced "euthanasia" program or send me to a concentration camp or gas me, I'm not going to be declared incompetent to even testify in court because "she's mentally disabled and doesn't know what she's talking about", everything I say will be taken with a grain of salt because "she has AS and therefore doesn't understand what she's talking about" or "She has AS and therefore thinks it's socially appropriate to make up things to get attention".

Same here. Some people think I'm just playing odd, but i can never bring myself to tell them that I have AS. Still, some people think my quicks are funny.

I find people don't care at all. People don't want to hear about it. These same people ask me questions about my behavior being rude and unusual... and I'm like... "hey remember those times I tried to explain about Aspergers?"

Grrr... it pisses me off.

My best mate is HF autistic .. he loves flashing lights and shinny objects. I know for a good 6 months i did think less of him. Then I learned more and more about it and now i take him very seriously. I do my best to protect him against himself in social situation. He really can nto tell when people are taking the piss out of him.

I would never let anyone know but my family and closest mates that I am (MAYBE) an Aspie

I think you misunderstood the definition, or my wording.

To be honest, I have been treated about the same from people I have told that I have AS. If anything, most of these people stereotype the spectrum of autism as causing brilliance in certain areas like memory and talent. I know that most people are uninformed about the spectrum, but I haven't met any negative comments yet about mine. I am taken as seriously as I was before people knew I had AS.

the lady I worked with for a couple of years started talking very simply and slowly to me. I took it for a couple of hours and then I just said "oh, hell, Lauri! I do the same job you do, how stupid could I be?" and she just laughed and it was ok.

Merle

I don't remember if I specifically said I was autistic, but on a phone call with campus police I got hung up on abruptly, and I was talked to in a condescending tone after he learned that i don't know my address and phone number.

Regardless of what the cop knows about AS, I can't imagine the cop knowing the person has an AS diagnosis. I can't imagine a scenario where that would be the case.

Well, I guess if one lives in a small town. But for most of us, seems to me there's no way the cop would know that, no matter how open and verbal one is about their diagnosis.