Anyone did not believe you have asperger?

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I've had a few people who have at least passing familiarity with the spectrum and who are friends of mine spot me "in the field", so to speak, unprompted. Most who I tell believe me, and I've had a couple of "OMG there's nothing wrong with you!" - generally from people who don't actually know what they're talking about.

Yeah, a few. Most recently, a GP I was seeing specifically for mental health issues. She never even bothered to ask me a few questions about it and find out how the AS affects my depression (it does affect it a lot!). She just chose to ignore it. As I said to my psychologist at the time, it's like doing blood tests and choosing to ignore certain abnormal results while trying to treat others. Just doesn't work that way.

I found it insulting, more so because it was a professional who should have known better. It's like a huge part of who I am was being dismissed. The opinions of laypeople don't bother me.

i told my sister i was autistic and her reation was "but you're not stupid like matises brother" and upon telling her it affected communication not intellect she replied "you're not autistic, you're just shy!". my dad didn't accept it till this year.

Nobody at my school believes me when I tell them because I seem so normal. Most of the time they think I'm kidding. There's a few other kids at my school who have aspergers, and I literally act nothing like them.

lots of people don't believe me. my parents and sisters didn't accept it, one psychiatrist refused to even consider it, and my friends or acquaintances are sometimes surprised.

but my daughter and former husband believed me, as did most mental health professionals (including the shrink who did my official diagnostic testing). in my aspie support group, my fellow attendees had NO doubts, and the group leader was going to suggest a second opinion if my diagnosis came back negative.

so i'd say that the people who know and understand me the best can see it, but the people who don't know me as well or who don't want to believe i am "different" have some troubles with it. my sisters have come around since the official diagnosis.

I have the same reaction, generally people think I'm bullshiting then I tell them it, though I usually don't tell people. I don't act like other Aspies I know I'm very much able to hide it. I think some of us "grow out" of the majority of the symptoms of Aspergers. The others I've met with Aspergers tend to have a hard time interacting with people period. They interrupt, always try to move the topic back to their obsession, make strange body movement, and all overall just weird. There was a kid who had very severe Aspergers at my community college who would throw fits at the drop of a hat. He once through a tantrum because he got a D on a test and yelled and screamed about how unfair it was that he worked 2 hours on a math test and only got a d. And there was also this Indian kid who had Aspergers who would follow me around, and would completely weird me and my friends out.

Nobody believes I have AS. Well, I don't tell them, and that is why. Once I told someone, and she said, ''no, to have that you'd be really shy and mute'', and I said, ''no that's not quite how it works'', and she said, ''no, you don't have that. I know somebody who's got a child with it, and she's really bad'', and I said, ''yer but it's a mild form of Autism. It's not like classic Autism, it's just a spectrum'', and she still wouldn't have it.