People who don't understand say hurtful things. Examples are

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"Really your autistic? But it doesn't seem like anythings wrong with your cognitive functioning."
Someone actually said this to me last weekend.

"You are mentally insane." I am just sitting and reading my AP Biology textbook, while you're the one screaming at the top of your lungs and flailing your arms. And who is the insane one?

"You are stupid and ret*d and not fit to live in the same house as your normal little brother." If I'm so stupid, how come I'm in all advanced classes AND I make A's and B's?! Hmmmm?

"You think you are so superior to everyone else." You say that, but you can never explain why you think that I do. Because I certainly do not think I am superior to everyone else.

"The world doesn't revolve around you, you know." Of course not, and I never said that it did. I just want some time alone, please!

"You're not autistic, you're just lazy and wierd." Uhh, maybe you should do a little more research...

"You should be isolated from all of society." And why do you think that? Because I think differently than you do?

"You sound like a robot." I believe there is no point in raising my voice and making all these useless intonations when you are standing right in front of me and you can hear and understand my words.

"There's no point in applying for a job, because nobody is going to hire you." And yet, I got hired the very next day! Now what?

"You'll never amount to anything." I make high grades AND I won a photography contest and I got accepted into two colleges. Hmmm...

"No wonder you have no friends; you're too quirky." Little do you know, I have a close knit group of a few friends who understand me. But you wouldn't know that, because you've never even tried to understand.


All of the above quotes were said by my mom. And she is still says hurtful things up to this day. The quotes are followed by my reponses in my mind. Some of which I have actually said to her out loud, others I have kept in my head.
I plan to move in with my boyfriend as soon as I turn 18, just to get away from her. My boyfriend is also AS, but less so than me. Yet he understands me perfectly, and we love each other very much.

Most common from co-workers/roommates:

"You are sooo WEIRD." (very common)
"You should see a shrink"
"You are the exception that breaks all the rules" (I'm still not entirely sure what that one means, but 3 different people who don't know each other have said that to me)

I get the selfish, offensive, weird a lot.

"There is definitely something wrong with you, but I don't think it's Asperger's Syndrome"
possibly true, but still frustrating to hear

and

"You just have Low Self Esteem"
Also true...but what is the cause??..and seriously that is not my only issue

I heard so many in school that I eventually got numb to it. If someone insulted me, and the insult was funny I'd laugh along with everyone else. Later I got the habit of making a self-deprecating remark before anyone else could, thus robbing them of their fun. I've since given that up, because now that I'm an adult, people don't insult me to my face. If they make comments behind my back, that's fine.