Tell tales of when people insulted your intelligence!

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Today at work, boss goes on and on about how some of the merchandise was on Clearance, and how we would have to spend all day sorting through it to find the Clearance items. So okay, I start doing that. He gets back to me and looks like I'm an idiot... "What are you doing that for" and I said "You just told me too!" and he's like "Obviously, that would take up too much time, I just want you to scan some of it to try to pick out what's most likely to be Clearance!"
Of course that takes up too much time, even I knew that, but he still told me too! (Though apparently I was suppose to understand that was not what he really meant)

On the other hand, other people, like my former teachers, will say I'm extremely bright...

Bah, I still have an Aspie theory, reading this thread more support for it...

Oh, and I understand the menu thing too, at the Fast Food place I work at (thankfully for only a few more months, can't wait to go back into research), it's all coded and stuff, I still get it wrong sometimes, but now the managers are talking to me like I'm extremely slow "We just canceled this sale, okay, so that means you don't have to worry about going through the rest of the transaction." seriously, I know that, don't talk to me like I'm 5 because I forget to check if I have a full stock of cups sometimes

Used-car salesmen are experts at insulting someone's intelligence and making them think it's okay. Or maybe it was just me.

I blank out alot and act stupid, so playing dumb tends to reinforce people's expectations of what I do. It helps cover for my social shortcomings. If people want to think I'm simple they're free to do so. I don't really care about that.

i worked for a professor that was in the habit of explaining something, asking me if i'd understood, and if i honestly answered 'yes', explained it again, in a very condescending tone. Also, my dad sometimes insults my intelligence, like once he asked me to buy a bottle of wine, and then had a long-winded chat warning me not to buy these wines that cost thousands (i've been buying my own groceries since i was eighteen). but my grandmother is the most annoying, she treats me as if i were 5, what insults me the most is that she thinks i don't see through her adulation.

Last edited by pbcoll on 07 Nov 2007, 5:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

moron is slang for someone who is an idiot, it doesn't matter what your iq is, if you do dumb things you are a moron, quoting your test results from a test that was made by someone that is probably a moron himself does not automatically make you exempt from being a moron

Tony Atwood talks about people with Aspergers developing a bigger brain than usual. Could this be why AS people a lot of times have above average IQs?

LOL

I know I certainly have a big head to house the overdeveloped brain in!

You're not the only one.