Silly/Stupid Questions/Statements on ASD?

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What have you heard or have said to you?

Mine: "Asperger's? That's like Epilepsy, right?"

"aspergers? thats where if i told you to pick up a chair and take it over there you would do it."

still cant get over that one. where does somebody get that idea from? if somebody asked me to move a chair then i would do it out of common decency, not because i have a condition. idiots.

"So are you, like, ret*d?"
Makes me want to facepalm so badly when people say that.
Oh, and another little piece of ignorance from people:
"Huh, Autistic? But... you can speak."
And then there's something I can't really blame people for not quite understanding, but it annoys me when people don't get it after I've explained it several times:
"But if you're intelligent, why can't you do (insert activity here)?"
I can't seem to get people to understand that my understanding of things isn't equal across all areas. Just because I write excellent essays, it doesn't mean I'm going to be brilliant at crossing roads or realise that not all things are suitable for being put in my mouth. I have moments where I just don't really understand basic things, but trying to get people to understand that is really hard.

My husband: "I wanted to look up Asperger's because I wanted to make sure you wouldn't be chasing me with a knife."

Ironically that actually happened in Chicago and that was how that 15 year old kid got shot and he had Asperger's. He charged after the officer with a knife in his hand.

That statement shocked me because I wondered why my husband thought it was some sort of psychotic condition. He said he didn't know what it was and he wanted to make sure I wouldn't be doing that to him. But I found it hilarious and it was funny until that incident in Chicago. Now my husband is going to think he was correct. I better not let him know about it.

Three years after my official diagnosis of AS my mom said she thought I had Oppositional Defiant Disorder instead of Asperger's.
She also says that I have Asperger's as much as my brother. Her only reasoning is that my brother and I are very stubborn.
My grandma thinks that I can outgrow my AS.
My Biology teacher seems to think that Asperger's is synonymous with ret*d and disruptive.

and people think we have issues

My dad's cousin once said to me that I would be a better person if I had better parents. (as if she thinks AS is caused by poor parenting)

Oh God, I know what you feel.

A friend asked me ''If you're autistic how come you're not in a special needs class?''

I am leery of getting a formal diagnosis because of stuff like this. I haven't told people about it, except my sister, because she figured out on her own that I have Asperger's and I told her then that I had researched it and taken one of the online tests, which confirmed my self diagnosis. I also did tell my father once, but it bothered him, so I dropped the matter. But I don't feel comfortable sharing this with others, as I had to deal with a lot of nasty labels when I was a kid, including ret*d. I knew I wasn't ret*d because my IQ was actually a little above average even back then, but I knew I was slower to process stuff mentally. Finding out about my Asperger's was a big relief, but too many people still don't understand what it is, so I feel it's best to keep that on a need to know basis. I recently looked up Avoidant Personality Disorder, and based on what I read, I have that, too. I have every symptom mentioned in the article, Although a couple of them are less strong now that I am older. I am not a hypochondriac, and don't enjoy being ill, so I know I am not just hunting for an illness to "have". I happened to look up several other disorders that day, and the only one that fit me along with my Asperger's was AvPD. I have looked up other disorders at other times, and none of them really fit me, except that sometimes they had a few symptoms in common with the Asperger's, but were still not a fit.

I don't think we should be too upset when NTs are confused about the spectrum, as even we are sometimes confused about it.