what do you hate hearing the most from NTs?

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"You should try to get on disability." (I've mentioned my gripes about that on here before, so I'll just say that people don't seem to get it when I explain why that's not really an option for me)

Asperger's is overdiagnosed (implying I don't have it)

Every time I get asked this when I'm just looking around I just reply with "No, I'm beyond help".

That provides me with endless amusement because they don't have a stock reply for it so they just slowly walk away with a really confused look on their face.

Lies

How come you don't you have a girlfriend? You're a good-looking lad...

Anything's better than nothing (in regards to women, and no, it's not)

Smile, it might never happen

Are you okay?

You know what they say about men with big feet?.....

Calm down, I'm just playing wit ya (usually after deliberately p***ing me off)

No you're don't/but you seem normal though/what's that? (when I tell them that I have Asperger Syndrome)

There's a bunch of others but I think most of them have already been mentioned or I can't remember them.

So many memories over a liftime come flooding back when reading through this post.


My mother's favorite was, "when are you going to get yourself a girl friend?". Usualy followed by "Just go out and meet some someone". Um, sure thing, where mum?

"Do you have children?". No I don't. "Are you married?". No I'm not. "Why not?". This is the hardest question, and it usualy upsets me a lot.

"I heard that everybody has some autistic traits". It might be true, but that's a long way from living the life.

"How's your day going?", asked way too often by shop assistance, and food stores.

^5 I actually was about to post "Will the defendant please rise?"

"Maybe if you quit using [drugs] you'd feel better"

said to me in more or less the same words by multiple people, usually authority figures. Annoying because it started around when I was 12, and I'm not a druggie, and people seem to assume I'm a drug addict from the start until I say/prove otherwise (still not sure if they believe me after that point).

+1 to the "everyone is a little autistic" answer

I like your answer. Would never dare to say that myself, though.

I told an NT the other day that I have Asperger's and she gave ma a condescending look and said, "Aren't you too old? Don't people just grow out of that?"

LOL!! !! I'm going to say that the next time I get asked that question!

There was a phase where whenever I went to the one nightclub in the nearest town I would get searched for drugs, the bouncer would always say that someone had told him I was carrying drugs and then proceeded to tell me that I looked like I was on something.
After 3 occasions of this happening (and me telling them that between having Asperger's, being in a crowded place and drinking 1ltr of vodka with 4 cans of Monster before I came out that I was bound to be a tad wide-eyed and twitchy) they figured to just let me get on with it.
It's not as if I ever cause any trouble when I'm out, I detest violence but luckily I'm big enough so that people think twice about giving me hassle but not so big that I become a fight magnet for groups of drunk soldiers.