Have you been asked point-blank "do you have Aspergers&

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With the increasing knowledge of Asperger Syndrome among the general population, I wonder if more people with AS have been asked point-blank "Ummm...do you have Aspergers Syndrome?" Obviously, this query would be prompted by an Aspie manifesting typical symptoms, such as asking someone to clarify an indirect point made out of politeness.

I can't say it's happened to me. What I DID get more than once was "do you have ADHD?" but not recently. I guess there's still that archaic perception that not correctly interpreting someone's message is due to lack of concentration.

About once a year, I've also gotten "are you, like, Rainman"? (or C3PO, or Mr. Spock) after making a pedantic comment.
Back in my youth in the 1990s, I had several people ask me "are you gay?" which I realize now was prompted by odd nonverbal communication, tendency to stare, walking funny, all added up could create that perception.

And the last one I remember, which had me laughing, was a female co-worker asked me laughingly "are you a Virgo??" I had no idea that zodiac signs had anything to do with Aspie manifestations, but apparently the Virgo sign is known for liking structure and low tolerance for ambiguity, which is totally me.

But, still, nobody to this day has asked me "do you have Aspergers?" - although I'm sure somebody else got that...

I got that 3 years ago by one of my professors. She was very aware of those on the spectrum, she claimed to have friends on the spectrum. Since the last few years my aspergers has become less and less noticeable.

Once by someone I used to talk to who had Asperger's, again by someone I met briefly in person after chatting with them online (different person) and once or twice by one of my support workers. And someone else gave me the link to this site because they thought I might find it useful.

I've been asked if I had ADD because I'm really hyper and figety. When I tell people I have Aspergers, they're like "You don't have that." I think they don't realize there are varying degrees of it and I'm on the mild/subtle side (but still enough to drastically affect my life.

No but I have been asked if I had ADHD or if I was autistic.

I have been asked if I was ret*d
I have also been asked if I was learning disabled
But never autistic

I was asked once. I think I could pinpoint the reason I was asked. Wasn't a good experience for me.

i posted a link on facebook to an article about famous people who might have had AS. a friend commented that he thought i must have that. i didn't deny it.

I've been asked if I was autistic many times. I am.

Visited my brother a few years ago and the visit just started turning sour. He was getting irritated and asked if I thought I was "Normal". Then said "Do you have Aspergers Syndrome". I wish he wasn't being so aggressive because it made me defensive. He seemed to think I was being extremely Passive Aggressive. I'm not sure if I was. It seemed like a missed opportunity to talk about it but he seemed mad at me.

Also I was frankly surprised he had even heard the term before. Later though I remembered he liked the show Boston Legal and I think one of those characters has AS.

Strange to think I was diagnosed by a Sitcom.

I've been asked if I am ret*d or autistic. ret*d was more often and I have only been asked three times if I was autistic. But there was someone online who I didn't know and he said I must be autistic because I act like it.

ADHD has been mentioned too but I was never asked if I had it but I think it was implied that she thought I did because she mentioned her grand son having it and said he does what I do, pacing around.
My aspie mate I knew, he thought I had ADHD and I don't know how he got that idea when I wasn't even hyper. He was the one with it.

I was asked one time by a police officer if I have a learning disability after he arrested me because some dumb store owner thought I took something without paying. Honestly I didn't know then If I had one or not so I couldn't answer yes or no.

Ya, my old roommate. told me I was. " you have ass bugers" joking, then told me about it more.I still don't know how he knows so much about it never asked.
other then that, alot of things being just being weird over the years

I havent been asked ive been told.
People with aspergian family members or Aspies in general will often come up to me and say "you have Aspergers!" or "do you realise you may have aspergers?"
this is usually because in a conversation im absorbed into i have a big goofy smile on my face and I wave, or flap my hands around. and they pick up on this and usually ask me if i know im doing it.

the first time i was like "um i have what?" and they explained "I have aspergers syndrome a form of autism.... and you display aspergian traits"

Now i just reply with "yeah i know, Im hopefully getting a diagnosis early next year."

No, nobody asked me if I had aspergers, but a friend who has it and was diagnosed at a very young age mentioned that he's pretty damn sure I had it about 5 years ago, apparently. I don't remember this at all, though. I've tried to tell a few people though. One who knows nothing about it and never even heard of it made his decision that I can't possibly be because I'm not "ret*d." He read a wiki for like 5 minutes, now apparently he's an expert, and he knows exactly how my brain works... whatever.

I have been accused of being gay back in highschool(i guess cuz I didn't hit on everything that moves or constantly say things like "check out the tits on her!"), and I was also accused of being a pothead(probably because I tend to have a blank expression on my face and I space out sometimes. That, and I have really small eyes) in highschool.

Now I don't know for sure if I have it, but I know I sure as hell have SOMETHING. I can't relate to everything on this forum, but I can definitely relate to a lot of it, and I've always felt different. People confuse the hell out of me. I can't understand what makes them tick at all, what drives their decisions and thought processes. I'm not even sure they think about things at all sometimes. Advertisements don't really affect me Like I'll see the ad, and I'll know about the product then, but it's usually something stupid because it solves a problem that never existed in the first place(meaning there's about a billion other cheaper and easier ways to do something that they're trying to sell a product for). I don't ever see an ad on TV or anywhere really and think "wow, I need that." And everytime I see something being sold using sex or scantily clad women, it disgusts me. I'm not disgusted by the woman or the fact that she's scantily clad. I'm fine with that. What I'm disgusted with is the fact that they use this to sell s**t to people, and even more disgusting, is the fact that it works because people are dumb enough to actually believe "if I buy this product, hot girls will have sex with me." Things aren't that simple, but people never seem to learn. I don't feel like I'm part of the human race. I feel like Jane Goodall in the jungle living with apes, trying to understand their social structure...

People always seemed to ask if I have ADD or ADHD, and people always used to think/ask if I was high when I wasn't, and I've only smoked weed one time in my entire life.