debunking the myths of the aspergers and autism

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I was doing some research today and came across this link. I don't know about you but the myths [even though the link serves to debunk them] make me furious!! I guess it just proves how misunderstood and crazy society thinks we are...... oh how distressing

http://autism.about.com/od/whatisautism/tp/topmyths.htm

Well hopefull that site will educate people.

I still can't believe that some people think autism comes from Rain Man.

In my B&J fanfictions, my OC hates Rain Man because too many people use it as their diagnoses for autism and say her son doesn't have it or they assume he has some savant skills and then act all shocked that he doesn't have any and question how can he have it if he can't do the calculations in his head or count cards.

My neighbor(who's a nice guy btw) said-"People with autism are all kind of like into themselves aren't they?"

That list missed the biggest myth that I've encountered-- that autism is synonymous with mental retardation. That's the biggest problem, why such a ridiculously huge number of people don't get diagnosed. I think some states with separate mental health and mental retardation systems deal with autism exclusively in the mental retardation system.
Also of course, the myth that only boys can be autistic.