Ever been bullied because you have AS/Autism?

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Basically earlier for some reason I can remember being bullied by the 2 girls one day when I was at the park... The two girls came up to me because they had a crush on me, but what my brother did was say I was autistic... The next I know is they suddenly started making fun of the way I was, it was so horrible, calling me disabled and ret*d and all sorts of names to deliberately hurt me...

I came home and ran to the toilet and started crying because of it, I wish I could forget it but unfortunelately i just can't get it out of my head since it was so bad.

Then another kid made fun of the way I was in the class and made me so angry so mnany times that I wouldn't of been happy at all... He bullied me, he was so competitive that I would try and avoid PE or try and bunk off.
He thought I was a crazy guy because of the way I was.
Since then I was depressed and never wanted to live again.

Has anyone else been through a similar experience before?

I voted yes because I was bullied for being different. Kids may not have known about my condition but they knew I was different and teased me for it and thought badly of me.

I've been bullied for my traits by another aspie online because I take things literal. Ironic huh?

Another forum, an aspie who claims he's recovered from it liked getting on my back about my condition and takes my posts out of context and accuses me of bullshitting about myself. I have never ever said I was unable to learn things and it's not all black and white about my traits, sheesh. I think he just likes starting s**t with me or he really is that stupid.

I voted "yes" simply because I have been bullied. Nobody knew about AS/HFA until after I had been around for a little over 30 years, but some people still took (and some people even still take) advantage of some of my natural vulnerabilities.

I didn't vote because I don't know. I never paid much attention to what people said to me when I was in school. They pulled pranks on me, but they did that with eachother aswell. I only once got into a "fight" which was just some guy punching me in the face, after which I just went back to listening to music.

So, yeah, I could've been picked on but it didn't affect me in the least.

most definetly yes....! !! ! from nursery until now and i am almost 28.

I got picked on some for being overly quiet. I remember some kids used to come up to me and say "what's up" or buddy up to me in an insincere way because they knew I was too shy to respond. I only talked with my friends.

Yes.

I was treated unfairly by my peers, because I was different from the time I started kindergarden, until I graduated from college. It seemed that either they hated me, or they thought that it was funny to pick on vulnerable people.

I have always been bullied for being different, but never for being an aspie. I keep that to myself, because most people don't understand it. If I ahd told my peers, mt experiences would have been 1000 times worse, and they were already hell.


I'm sorry that happened to you. I can see why they'd have a crush on you though, if that is you in your avatar. You look very handsome.

I only found out I was aspie a couple of years back. Before that I was bullied all the time for my aspie characteristics, and it still affects me even now. But since I found out, and I've been telling people, the reaction has been fairly positive. If anything, the worst I've experienced is being patronised in a gooey sickly sweet way (which I hate!) I guess I'm around older people a lot, and the town where I live is kind of a new-age, alternative thinking type place, so I'm lucky. I've found a niche for myself where my aspie status works in a way to give me a twisted form of social kudos. Maybe that's morally wrong somehow... but I'll take what I can get!

Iwas bullied in school as well. I always had the feeling I was watching TV and the kids and other people were in it. I didn't know how to reach them or how to behave. I had only a few friends which I grew up with.

I've been bullied by my mother, but never because of autism, so I voted no.

It seems people in general are often keen to make a good impression on me, and don't want to be judged negatively by me. I don't know why, because I'm not judgemental at all. Maybe it's because I make so many conscious decisions all the time.

(Or maybe it's just because they think I'm posh totty. )

As a kid I was never popular but never bullied. It might have helped that I grew up in a very sheltered area where people didn't really get bullied and there was no violence at all that I was aware of.

Yes that is me in my avatar however I was 12 when that happened and it still unfortunelately in my head and I wish to get rid of that negative feeling about that event... Since then, i've kept it to myself because where I used to live, they won't really accept anyone being who they are.... no chance... Once your diffrent, you are bullied until the end....

Glad I moved out of that area now, moved to another quieter area, but the only problem is that my next door neighrbout doesn't like me and they have been bullying me for the same reason too and also stalking that girl which I kept getting accused of... I find it scary to leave the house when they are about because I know for a start they will start picking on me.

Had a recent facebook argument with them and it was so horrible, again, they accused me of stalking to her sister, but I wasn't this time because somebody had made an imposter of her... again they accused me automatically because i was autistic and they thought that I would take it too far... I didn't have any idea what they was talking about, the next thing you know, anotherr friend of mine who suddenly turned his back against me was also bullying me... It was so horrible that I wanted to just give up... not a very good experience.

Only my family knows about my AS. I only get bullied by my younger sister - She is an NT. I have a very hard time with social interaction, and anytime I see my sister at school and her friends are around, she'll say things like "Oh, my sister can't love, because she is an aspie". So, it gets a bit out of hand there.

Yes i was bullied at school because i was different secondly it was due to my race but nothing to do with my asperger's syndrome as i never tolded anybody about it as they wouldn't have a clue about it.

Yeah, there's a real pack mentality, especially with younger guys. I don't know if it helps, but I definitely found it got less like that when I got into my mid-twenties. I've always found it tough in neighbourhood situations, cos there's basically no choice in who is around you. But as I started to get more of a social network outside of that, to do with my work and my interests, it kind of made it easier.

The better question would be:

If you have an ASD, have you actually never been bullied?