Is your community accepting of AS?

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Entirely typical of the victims of the real freak disease: Christianity.
It programs them in such a simplistic, backwards way.
They're just a zombie hoarde, basically.

Well, Soti again people are moved by charismatic leaders(in this case Jesus Christ) and because they are moved by him, they will do whatever he says, and excuse their behaviors under his name.

My community (local trailer park in the @#$-end of nowhere) is either too busy learning English, or too tired to care...

In my professional/social circle it's common knowledge that I'm an Aspie, but to most people it doesn't seem to mean anything, and yet I still hear second hand that they're talking s**t about my "weirdness." Well hello, maybe they could put 2 and 2 together and gain a bit of understanding?

As for those I consider friends, or trustworthy, they just kinda go with the flow and it very rarely comes up.

Regarding Christianity, I used to be a Christian, but this was back in Los Angeles (home region) rather than the Bible Belt. The other Christians, for the most part, thought I wasn't giving it over to God enough (and those were the ones who even seemed dimly understanding as to what it meant to have AS); as in, if I devoted myself enough, then my AS would magically evaporate. So they would give me grief for Aspie traits, like it was my fault that I continued to have it.

It's hard for me to say whether the community is accepting or not since I'm autistic and not able to get out there and network. My personal experience in the past is that people may be accepting in the abstract, but when it comes to giving me the personal support I need, they tend to fold. I become socially very dependent on people very quickly and it's a lot to ask of people, so I kind of understand that one. (Except when its supervisors and landlords and other people who are paid to do the right thing - that's different and there isn't enough support there.)

I have encountered hostility from people (more Americans than Canadians, but both) on the internet because I'm on welfare. I think if I were nobly disabled but not in need of public support I'd get a lot of support, but as soon as it costs the taxpayers money all bets are off.

I don't really know if my community is tolerant, or not. I'm guessing that it is. I think that my society will be even more tolerant, when its members go into the casino to gamble, and those people see me doing the janitorial work, there. That's where I'm planing to work. People are generally more tolerant of people who are employed.

No one in my community has no idea what AS is. I've tried to explain it to a few people but they always say, "Just be normal like us."

I'm from New Zealand and if I could make a bet, i'd bet that 9/10 people here wouldn't even have heard of AS, let alone know what it is.
People in NZ are generally accepting of those with "obvious" disabilities, but for those who have hidden disabilities it's quite the opposite. I've had many say to me that i'm arrogant, attention seeking, and one person even called me psychopathic. I had to laugh at that because they had no idea what "psychopathic" really meant.

I've seen people in the street quite obviously taunt a man with Autism, steal his bicycle, and throw rocks at a lady with schizophrenia.
Nevertheless, they were all adolescence with no respect and the average adult here wouldn't do that (I hope). It's still sick, regardless.

Up here in New England, I think people are pretty accepting of it. Most of my peers don't know what it is, but those who do are understanding of it. Also, many laws are passed up here in favor of those with disabilities, espescially Autism, so if the cards aren't in our favor yet then they're certainly getting there.

It's no use arguing with such people. The notion that explaining why you have trouble with something is "just an excuse" is deeply embedded in the American psyche. It's the same notion that conservatives and libertarians use to claim that all poor people are poor because they are lazy.

It's not that bad everywhere. My co-workers and supervisors are very understanding and accepting, and I don't even have an official diagnosis, though I do have a note from my doctor on file obliging them to put me on a regular schedule. (You only have to get to know me a little and read up on AS a little and it's kinda obvious.) We're all well educated (I work in an acedemic library) and that makes a big difference. Some of them think that I'm the most interesting person to talk to.

honestly, it doesn't matter to me if people don't accept
me, as long as they don't bother me.
but in my community people are sooo nosy and
annoying, there's no where else to go where
you won't be bothered by people's knowing looks
....
anyway i don't like them either, could care less if
they accept me

I guess so.

and another thing, i think it's SAFER
not letting them know, because they
could use it against you