100 Ways to Annoy Somebody With Asperger's Syndrome

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- Call their name from another room and instantly say the message while they are yelling "What?" and cannot hear you.
- Take them to a shop "just for a few minutes" and spend 1,5h there. Ignoring their messages about having a headache from sensory overload due to the loud environment.
- Ask them random questions such as "What do you want for dinner?" when they are in shutdown state after the sensory overload.
- Ignore your the phone ringing while discussing with them about how to help them avoid sensory overload.
- Say "Stop that. You are clearly manipulating me but I won't give up so it's pointless!" when they are having sensory overload and stim badly to stay sane.
- Say "In 2 hours." when they ask you "Can we go home?" due to sensory overload. When they answer "Not in 2 hours, sooner." say "In 3 hours in that case.".

- Hide behind a position of authority to act in a hostile manner toward Aspies.

- Act in a hostile manner toward Aspies, and then blame them for causing the hostility.

- Fail to explain why you're acting hostile toward Aspies, and even deny that your actions are hostile.

Just remind us yet again that
1. Aspergers does not exist
2. Aspergers never existed
3. It does not exist anymore/DSM 5 (I imagine unless you are first learning about ASD's, 2 years after the change a vast majority of us have heard about the DSM 5 elimination of the Aspergers Disorder diagnosis)
4. Insist how we identify is wrong or just identifying at all is wrong

Invalidation thread - Wrong Planet

Insist that just because they don't have a diagnosis from a doctor, they're not Autistic.

"You can go back to your not-NT-but-not-Autistic life now with the comfort that there's still a lot wrong with you, but at least you're not one of those non-verbal kids who sits in the corner flapping their hands!"

Interrupting me when I'm already busy with some activity is really my main annoyance. Rare life-threatening emergencies are one thing but if it gets to the point where the dumb-ass is careless enough to always be getting himself into trouble & interrupting me so that I have to save his ass & baby-sit him all day then that kind of annoyance is deserving of an ass-whopping !

1. Assume that you know all about autism and can tell me how things are for me, what I can 'get over,' what I 'just need to tolerate,' what I 'don't need to do,' and what 'isn't important/isn't a big deal.'

2. Dismiss my solutions to problems and offer alternatives that aren't as good or as comfortable but that are less obvious or appear more normal.

3. Be supportive, but then get embarrassed when I do something/want to do something/want not to do something that is outside the behavior of a 'normal' person my age and gender. Say you understand that I'm different when I talk to you, but then expect me to act like everyone else.

One that's not specific to autism but that bothers me about people: say that you are open-minded and that people should be free to express themselves in unique ways but then criticize, ostracize and ridicule anyone you see who does so.

Tell the person "This is a very low priority project. It is complicated, and it has to be done by tomorrow." Then tell them "Here is another project. It is a high priority project. All other projects take a back seat to this. It has to be done in two months. I want you to get started on it immediately."

Where is the emoticon with the exploding head?

^ TBH I think it's about who comes up with the suggestion, where in the pecking order they are.

Has happened to me too.
I also know the perfect way to make everyone unenthusiastic about someone's idea. All it takes is me being fired up about it. That will make even the person who suggested it lose interest or at least enthusiasm.
Of course, I found that out the hard way.

Write me up over an obscure subrule of the company dresscode (as if Autists were known for our fashion sense) all the while ignoring Allists who commit blatant violations of basic workplace ethics like not using the company computers for personal business on company time--even submitting job applications (I thought Autists were the ones who have trouble comprehending boundaries).

I may have mentioned this before but dumping on the Autists for not intuiting the social structure and hierarchy of the company. I try, honest I do, but I guess wrong every time when I try to figure out who's in charge of what unless they have obvious titles (like the C.F.O. is in charge of finances--corporate FINANCE officer, see the clue?).

Have a forum where there's a link at the bottom of individual thread pages allowing you to jump to next page, but not one on the "thread listing" pages, requiring users to scroll back to the top in order to be able to jump to next page. (Hopefully that makes sense...)

Tell them to deal with real world problems, such as a broken down car, like a man instead of a baby/coward.