Outrageous asperger myths and stereotypes

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That ''all Aspies are always doing something odd in public''.

Childlike, immature, unmotivated, creepers, hypersensitive, overdramatic, must have had a spiked drink, been in some terrible accident, parents were druggies or commited incest

The few people I regularly interact with have a more enlightened understanding, 1 aspie mom spotted me accurately from across a room. The select people I've 'outed' myself to have been supportive without much awkwardness I can read, and the IDing of my barriers to normal expression has been a relief to the closest ones

My mom can act like a curebie at times (I don't eat the right foods and broadcasting 'lfa' moments)
but will usually mention aspies from the TV like James on 'Idol" and the "Parenthood" kid.

That we aren't really human....we're aliens.
(Yes, I have seen that one).

Then your teacher says:
Well, I didn't notice anything abnormal.....

Or another teacher:
Are you sure it's not just anxiety? Cause I wouldn't want you to have a label....

Sigh.

I know--I'm actually the person who stops and picks up every bug I see on the sidewalk, to move them to the other side so they don't get stepped on. I stop when I see a dead possum on the side of the road, to check to see if it has living babies in it's pouch because I would be racked with guilt of the babies died because I didn't check. Yet sometimes, I don't feel the need to cry at funerals--or know what to say to someone who is crying, but it's not because I don't have empathy. I don't really know if I have AS though, but still--I know I have empathy and a lot of symptoms of mild AS.

Autistic people are more logical than everyone else. This one seems to be perpetuated by autistic people themselves. Sure you are...