Does Accepting Your Aspergers appear EVIL to people?

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What you have perceived from some other people is totally accurate! Thank you for reminding me why I always feel like I'm treated like a machine by people rather than another human being like them!

Also, thanks for the reminder as to why intelligence seems to feel like it's worth less as time goes by (it's because it is!)!

Do people think I'm evil for my AS characteristics? Over the years I have been called a jerk, a------ and other names and for having anti-social behavior. In truth I really didn't know what people were talking about, so increasingly I just wanted to be left alone. I suppose I was thought of as a bad person, but really I just wanted to be left alone and nothing more.

I often just got plain sick and tired of being called a jerk and all that, so I tuned out and didn't care.

Nowadays I still have many AS traits that I struggle with. That's just the way life is, but my problems have been more overcome and I'm doing better.

I just hated it, when people would pressure me to socialize. That was the worst.

Um... know = verb, to know. You really mean "no" as in the negating particle.



We are less empathetic, but that doesn't mean that we are inclined to be less concerned or helpful. Our emotions are just as complex, but they don't surface with immediacy as with others. Soulless? That's more determined by actions that feelings.



Life is a struggle for everyone, but for Aspies it is a greater struggle in some ways. Frankly one shouldn't let criticism get him or her down, but deal with things as they come up. I've had to put up with a lot of antagonism and antipathy thrown at me and told that I'm the "bad guy." F--- you came my increasing response. When I was allowed to gradually interact more with others, that changed.



No necessarily. Their problems are more obvious and can more illicit sympathy from others and can be allowed to socialize in a more regular way via gradual improvement rather than the usual chastising.



The supposedly malign behavior comes from inappropriate behavior that is not understood and from overreactions to antagonism and an increasing desire to be left alone. Been there, done that.



I have been down this road. I got sick and tired of being treated like a bad person, so I just tuned out. People then get mad at you for tuning out and considering you as bad.



I often to extra work that involves the tedious, monotonous, repetitive work that no one else is willing to do. There are up sides to AS and you can be appreciated for it.

In Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, autism (especially the high-functioning forms) is used as a metaphor for soullessness, arrogance, and flippant disregard for all things "human". A man with AS eventually destroys the human race out of his radical feelings of superiority.

That is disgusting and misinformed. One does not need to be brimming with emotion to have a healthy mind and contribute to society; one needs only a good feel for proportion, a solid sense of ethics, and the drive to put one's talents to good use. Most people with AS have robust emotional lives, but we express it much differently than NTs. And if I did not love humanity, why would I have any need for philosophy and literature?

A new and nasty stereotype of auties is emerging in books, movies, and NT-to-NT conversations: the fiercely ambitious, heartless computer geek. I have AS and I am a complete type-B personality who certainly has feelings and only uses the computer to access Wrong Planet.

Many people in my lifetime have called me 'evil' or 'demonic'. I am not evil or demonic, let me tell you. My laugh is a little weird, maybe. My eyes can sometimes seem really scary at times (If I'm in a p*ssed-off mood). My reactions to surprises my seem depraved or callous. But, I think that I, even though a lot of people remind me, am not 'evil'. I'm typically for the underdog, or those that are mistreated. I speak up for those who are treated lousy. I just think sometimes it is in vogue to coerce those who are 'unpopular'. When people joke at work and say something stupid, i usually don't react at all, because it is usually at another's expense (or I don't really realize what it means). I'm definately not down for the charade, nor am I for belittling others for righteous self-gratifying, improvization of moral supremacy or how they feel BIG towards others.

I once heard about a little girl who had AS who was sensitive to noise.
Her infant brother was crying. She threw him out of a seven story window.
Ican completly understand her state of mind and the fact she was a child.

Evil should be measured by intent. She did not intend to kill him just make the noise go away, yet I can see how people at large could interpret her as evil.

I really wish I hadn't just read that......

I've accepted my autism a long time a go and in my eyes, this meant I accepted the fact that I'm not as social as the rest, I don't go to parties and such and so on.
However, I changed fundamentally and I now have the social life of a reasonably popular NT.
And I think to reach this, accepting your Aspergers is key.
Before you can handle a problem, you need to acknowledge it.

The belief that certain traits are 'evil' is short-sighted superficialness and is NOT correct in any way.

Just because an Aspie acts passive, doesn't seem to care for people and so on, doesn't mean he's bad.
It just means you can't see his expression of emotions.
And just because there's no expression of something doesn't mean it's not there!! !

WE ARE NOT EVIL.

my family and me dont discuse mental health issues in are family. everyone has something my moms taking effexor because of me, one of my sisters is a junkie/bipolar fruitcake my grandmother f-ed a horse or sucked his peter so she defintly is mentally i'll, and one of my stepdads is a child molester

Yes it does. Many NTs claim I'm "using my AS as a crutch", "I'm lazy", "I just don't wanna try". All these claims are bulls***! Used to be only Baby Boomer NTs made claims like these. But now all majorities in humanity make claims like these. As a result I can only relate to other Aspies and the Deaf-Blind.

As for the Deaf-Blind, two organizations for the Deaf-Blind have refused to tolerate my symptoms. DBSocial ListServ and OADB (the Ohio Association of the Deaf-Blind). Now I must figure out where in the USA to move to get back with the Deaf-Blind and wait until I have the money to move there. Until then I can only relate to other Aspies .

Wise words Adrian.

A big part of the NT world is about fitting in and immature, unenlightened people can take our inability or unwillingness to conform as a direct challenge to their choice of life. The classic - if you're not with me you're against me view. A sign of deep immaturity.

There is no such thing as evil anyway. It's just another construct born from ignorance and fear.

I have learned to realize that it dosnt matter what other people think. my life used to be ruled by what other people think. Now i am not bothered by it so much.

I would say that yes i have accepted myself and my AS, if other people cant accept me and my AS thhen i would say that it is there problem, and they are ignorant in not accepting me for who i am.

I think it is a very ignorant view to believe that people with AS are evil. anybody can be evil or not evil regardless whether they have AS or not so seriously it is a very ignorant view to take.

NTs that think autistics are evil are evil.

I think the operative word is 'different'...in the sense that 'different' is evil (I hear this all the time on talk radio...but then I listen to both wings and make up my own mind...

We're not evil, we're just different. We're more a danger to ourselves than others...so I don't know where folks would be threatened by that. It's usually more contempt or ridicule. Evil implies danger, and most of us aren't that dangerous..

I don't understand where your ideas are really coming from.
I'm an artsy type, emotional and an aspie.
you are saying that aspies are viewed as evil by the artistic people, when in fact those are the type of people that have
acceepted my ideas and my artwork.
as a matter of fact I was rejected by some aspies who are the Science- nerdy type. They wouldn't get me with their narrow way of thinking.
Aspies that think Nts are evil are evil