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Me and my friend at school went on strike for being patronised by teachers (we skived off a lesson) when a teacher found us we joked about being the "spazmos" and crazy people of the school and she said, "nah, you're just extra special!"
I could have punched her right there and then.

"You can't have AS because you don't play with fire, torture helpless animals, or wet the bed." -- My former GP.

I would post my brother but it's quite hard to do that.

He says things like "all autistic people do this and are like this and need to be treated like this, and he once said that someone couldn't have been autistic "because autistic people don't like loud noises", as this guy listened to lots of loud music.

And when that autistic dancer boy appeared on Britain's Got Talent a few months ago, I said they shouldn't have made such a big deal out of the fact he has autism, just to get sympathy votes, and it wasn't fair on him as they should have judged him by his talent alone, my brother was like "Why not? That boy obviously lives to just dance. He can only be happy when he dances as he has nothing else." And then he just came out with a load of cliché BS like he usually does and prejudged and stereotyped everyone with an ASD.

He thinks he knows everything about autism because he has read some things in books (he works with people with learning disabilities etc and some of them are severely autistic) but he doesn't see it right in front of him.

And he just generally talks down at me and treats me like a ret*d, even when he's being nice to me, he treats me like I have the mental age of a poisoned foetus. I've given up with him now after an argument last month. I don't need him and don't miss him.

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Oh god. So many examples from my life.

Most examples revolve around me receiving treatment as an incompetent child would. You know how parents talk to infants, with the inflection at the end of every sentence, the slow pronunciation of words, the use of a 'cuteness' lexicon, and referring to them with cutie and hun and sweetie and the like? That's how 75% or more of people communicate to me.

Not to mention I am a fascination to people, sometimes even a fixation, in terms of how I perform and go about the world. Maybe it's because of the fact that I look young, act socially different, yet seem to be so intelligent; they treat me as if I were prodigy material and am heroic to them in some way.
People also act adored around me and seem to only want to converse with me because I look innocent (and therefore possibly dumb). Perhaps I represent someone they can supposedly trust as an outlet for venting frustration or bad actions on their part, or confide within me their secrets, because I won't understand (hell as yea I will and I will end them with those shared secrets).
This has occurred with to many college professors, other students, and even close friends.

Whatever it is, I have seen over half of my friendships really become a situation of mild exploitation on part of my differences in this manner, and I don't see true friendship in them anymore. It is beyond awful when one's human being-ness becomes a fetish for someone else.

Told to me (NT spouse) about ASD husband

GP 1: Your husband is the strangest person I have ever met. Mind you, this doctor worked at the state forensic psychiatric hospital that handled criminally insane prisoners. Fabulous!

GP 2: You'd lose 80 pounds of stress weight if you would divorce him.

Pediatrician: Who's your kid's real father? She's too well adjusted to he his.

ER doctor 1: What's he on? The drug urine test came back clean. We are doing a blood screen because his affect is totally off. He looks high.

Neurologist: He's too old to have Aspergers. He just has OCD and narcissism.

Numerous people: Why does he always look stoned? Why does he stumble around? Why doesn't he smile? Why doesn't he shut up? Why does he run away like a kicked dog when you don't agree with him 100%? (My husband panics and it's to avoid a king size meltdown down). Why are you still married to him? Martyr complex much?

They NEVER say anything to HIM. I'm the one who has to hear all their complaints. They just ignore him and move on.

"You're the one who put this label on yourself" my mom to me a last year about my AS diagnoses even though I never even self diagnosed and I was diagnosed with it without my consent because I was 12. Maybe she means me trying to be normal is what gave me this label. That sounds better.

A woman at my old art psychotherapy group and her reaction when I summoned the courage to tell them I'd been diagnosed with ASD. She seemed annoyed and said some very childish and stupid things about how 'I couldn't have it'. I felt like I must have inadvertently walked into some 'who has the most issues' contest. I suppose I should have told her I didn't give a crap about her wounded, drug-addled ego.

So many astonishing stories of professional incompetence here.

The worst I've heard was when we took in our son for AS diagnosis and I mentioned that I was one too. The doctor glanced at me and said, "Yes, clearly."

I was a rather uncoordinated 3 year old, and my teacher said to me:
"You're so slow. I should call you Turtle from now on."
"You're even slower than a turtle. I should call you Snail from now on."
"You're even slower than a snail. I don't even know what to call you anymore."

I didn't think much of it at the time because I didn't know better. Now that I look back, I realise it's not normal teacher behaviour.

How about sexist?

I was taking welbutrin for depression and I told the psychiatrist that I couldn't orgasm and I wanted to switch to something else. (Note that I had previously told him that I was not having sex with anyone.) So he asks me if maybe it's my partner...?

I had to wonder, if a dude said he couldn't orgasm, would you take him at his word or ask if it was his partner? But, because women don't masturbate they can't know this about themselves?

I didn't remind him that I wasn't having sex with anyone. I just said no. And switched drugs.

I seen a psychologist for depression and anxiety when I was about 20. I told him I had trouble making friends and would describe events. He never brought up ASD. Instead, he tried to turn me to god. After hearing his recommendations I abruptly quit seeing this wacko. 1. I'm atheist. 2. I came to him for serious help.

When I was pregnant and went to the ER the nurse seen a mark on my arm and thought I was shooting up. Turns out it was a freckle. I was just really anti social and depressed at the time so she was suspicious. I hate all health care workers. They all look at me strangely and suspiciously. I hate having to prove myself through drug tests. I don't do drugs.

"Plenty of people with aspergers (not he did not use "Autism") are talented! You are just depressed right now"

He said it in a way that invalidated my struggle and pain from my disorder. Ideas like these spread like wildfire. If you keep convincing people you are your illness, that it is a part of your vital character, they won't have sympathy.