Ever been told you're ugly?

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I got this a few times in the my teen years, a few times as an adult as well. I've also been told I'm cute during both phases of my life: I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder I wonder how often this happens to Autists, not so much that we actually are ugly, but maybe because of our behaviours, our eyes, our possible lack of style, or eccentricities, etc.

when i was a kid i sometimes was told i looked like a monkey.

Man, using that kind of terminology annoys me.

Yep.

Yep. I have to say I never said that to anyone else, pretty mean and uncalled for if you ask me.

Only once that I can recall and it was from bitter chick on IRC (we were at a time FB friends). I've received the "cute" compliment several times throughout my life. I was also called a "pretty boy" once. The compliments either came the internet or from someone who recently met me. For the latter, it tends to be from flamboyant gay men.

I'm currently trying to improve my appearance to see if anything changes. I've grown out my hair, losing weight and improved my sense of style. I have noticed more smiles, so I think I'm heading in the right direction.

I believe so...if I correctly remember, it was by one of my old Secondary school bullies.

people have often said that I could be pretty if I would just smile. Not a too small little weird smile like this like I always do, but showing my teeth like this I tried it for a while but it feels too fake.

I think the 'ugly' word is often used to convey general dislike as much as specific dislike of how a person looks. It's used to hurt a person as looks are seen as very important to most people.
I think a lot of people with Aspergers/autism look vulnerable so NTs with a predisposition to bully others will often see us as an easy target as we can look different to the norm and we often look very placid hence not likely to answer back. Thus we can get used as target practice by these nasty types. They will be being nasty about all sorts of other people for all different reasons as well though ie they have an unfortunate character type and are best ignored, avoided and forgotten as to get upset from anything they say is giving them what they want.

I've always thought life is very unfair in this respect as it's often the most vulnerable who get targeted the most ie those least equipped to deal with it whereas the stronger ones aren't targeted so get stronger. Therefore I reason that a vulnerable person who withstands and survives bullying is far stronger than someone never bullied as they have never been tested and that if these 'stronger' people were to experience the same level of disrespect and bullying they would soon become less strong ie these people are strong through good fortune, not skill.

I've been called ugly when I was being bullied, but I think she was just trying to say anything she could to insult me. When I asked her why they didn't want me hanging out with them, she said, ''because you're ugly'', and I yelled, ''thanks!'', but then she said, ''well you're ugly if you fancy ugly old men!'' I do fancy older men and I suppose are ugly to them, but I can't help it if it's my taste. Her boyfriend wasn't all that appealing himself.

Also I got hinted that I'm ugly, once. A girl who used to be my best friend said to me to put on a bit of make-up. Then I brought up a woman we knew who didn't ever wear make-up and stated that she doesn't wear any make-up but is still attractive, and then my friend said, ''yer but she's pretty anyway....'' and I had this feeling that she hinted I wasn't very pretty and needed make-up to make me look pretty otherwise I'll never be pretty.

The only people who have stared at me and smiled or have called me beautiful are men. Women seem to look at me in a different light.

Several times as I remember, excluding indirect insults about my physical appereance.

If I include indirect insults like ''you look like an elephant'', then I have to replace ''several'' with ''many''.

I was told that when I was a kid.

When I was 10, this horrible girl, who everyone hated, expect her few friends, asked me if I had a hair parting, I said no, she asked why, and I said I didn't think I looked good with one, then she said "You don't look so good without one".
When I was 11, there were these 3 best-friends, one of them said to me "Do you think we could be friends?", then the other 2 girls said to her "We don't want to be her friend, she's so ugly".
There were also some times, around that age range, when people acted as if I was telling the truth, when I said I didn't look nice.