Is your community accepting of AS?

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My community is very accepting of AS. FSU's CARD (Center for Autistic Research & Development) draws families with autistic children to the community. My co-workers find me interesting and amusing for my off-the-wall comments. People I work with know they can rely on me to say what I really think as opposed to what they want to hear. Supervisory staff recognizes that I'm "special," as they like to put it, so they try not to impose on me too much. I am allowed to be mostly self-supervising. Of course it helps that I'm extremely reliable and productive, I pay close attention to details, and I provide a level of internal and external customer service which exceeds everyone's expectations. Nevertheless, I established myself as a very valuable employee before I disclosed and asked for minor accomodations, like a regular schedule.

Not really, I think I was the only one in school with AS, and because that set me apart from the other kids, I was looked down a lot and was considerd insunificant... and people wonderd why I spent most of my time in the woods.

am meaning all autisms,developmental,physical etc disabilities in general here,rather than only as,but the area am live in is called urmston-a part of manchester.
it is very disability friendly [apart from when it affects senses],as for many years, it has been home to a big institution and the only respite unit in manchester [am used to live in the secure unit there till it was all closed down],and many residential homes run by different organisations like the council or scope,for people with all sorts of disabilities.
the police here are very disability friendly [as in all disabilities],so are the locals,the neighbours actually look out for am,the school children are less abusive towards difference here,whether are disabled [in any form] or not,its all 'normal' here.
this is the sort of place am would say to live in if--do not have major sensory problems with noise.
the main problem with it is it's a busy place,it's full of bars/pubs/clubs,its the main part used for ambulances as they have a station based here so there are often sirens going,theres the noise of the train stations and those lights that beep,there are loads of schools and not only that they knocked down the whole precinct and council buildings and are currently building a new precinct,studio flats and a sainsburys on its own,and this is all going on till late next year am think.
still,if are not affected by any of that stuff,and want a decent understanding place to live,try urmston.

There is no one single level of acceptance in a community, I think. I've experienced the whole range, from extreme prejudice, dismissiveness and denial, through to cheery good humour and active help and acceptance.

As the National Autistic Society said the other week, only 3 out of every 10 people have any knowledge at all of autism, other than recognising the word itself. No wonder they may have really silly things to say. Sheer ignorance.

I live in Mexico. And I think that I'm the first Mexican realizing about this mater.

I don't think my community has never ever heard of stuff like AS (I seem to be the only in my town who actually knows about it).

Everyone seems to be ok at the moment with me having AS luckily.

No. In the minds of most NTs around here I'm a lazy, undisciplined slacker who makes up excuses for my problems and that I can be made "normal" through willpower and punishment. This more then any other is why I have nothing but utter hatred towards the notion of "free will" and the central lie of right-wing individualism that "you can do anything and get anywhere if you try hard enough." How those two notions influence people's beliefs has caused me more suffering then anything else.

I'm not ashamed of AS.

To tell the truth, the reason I don't want to tell most people about my AS is that I just don't want to keep telling the same story over and over again. I am a secretive person by nature. My Dad was the exact same way. We don't have anything to hide, we just kind of loathe being forthcoming about our personal details. And being an Aspie is one of those not really that special things I need to keep telling people over and over again.

Only in a situation where I HAVE to admit to being an Aspie in order to clarify something that went wrong because of my AS will I admit to being an Aspie. I'd rather take a little egg on the face than have to sit and tell an unbelieving world about something that isn't very apperant to see at first glance. It really irks me that people do not believe what I say. What do you say to someone who calls you a liar after telling them you have AS?

I live in the bible belts of Ky, where if your not the same as them your the devil. My community only slightly accepts AS, most just think its a 'freak disease'

Here in New Jersey, we live in mental apartheid.

Some people I know, accept and love me unconditionally, whereas some people treat me like an idiot and a infant.

So it's basically the Group Areas Act, the NT's live here, the Auties here, the anorexics over there, the bipolar people here.

I wish it would end, but I am tired of playing Desmond Tutu.