Being rude?

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Has anyone ever been called rude because they pointed out obvious things to someone. I pointed out to a girl that she was being idiotic in a statement she made, she then tried to attack me. The teacher told me I was being very rude. I was confused because it was obvious she was wrong. Has this ever happened to anyone else?
Might it be a characteristic of Aspergers?

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Yes, I am 14.

All the time. if you state the obvious, and someone doesn't like it, they'll go for your throat. You have to be careful to avoid "trigger" words - it's like calling someone stupid. You can say, "no, that's not true" or "that's not accurate". But you can't say "that was stupid" or "you're being stupid" even if it is or they are.

Yes, I had a recent incident that had a very very negative effect on me. I made friends with a staff worker at asda here and would talk to her every evening when she worked. She seemed okay with me though sometimes I am sure she looked as if she didn't want me standing around which did hurt.Anyway, some 5 months after first talking to her, I was talking about issues getting work and said that I considered this store to be part of the rat race...I then said that I didn't feel I would be able to work there as I am so creative and would get bored. She took such offence and got all angry and I walked off and went for my usual walk. When I went to talk to her next day, she said she hoped I wasn't going to be rude again, and said how I had offended her fellow staff members etc, I tried to explain I hadnt said it to be rude and just sometimes spoke my thoughts, but no, she wouldn't listen and told me to clear off, and I was so damn angry and upset. I wanted to smash something in front of her...all logic flew out the window. She then went and told a few other staff, and a girl I was talking to a week or so later told me she had been told on her radio that I am a menace. I cannot describe how much that hurt me. Since then, I have made no efforts to get to know anyone else and stopped speaking to the other staff member I got on ok with. I hate people sometimes and their pathetic egos. She clearly felt uncomfortable with her job or she wouldn't have reacted as she did. These places are part of the rat race, everything mostly is, if you look at it.

I try not to be rude or blunt because I absolutely can't stand it when people act like that toward me. And I mean I really can't stand it.

Politeness is really about lying. It doesn't matter if the person is being idiotic. That's irrelevant. What is relevant is that you will get into trouble if you say it. Yes, you can say, I don't think that is correct, but it would be better if you actually said, I'm not sure that's correct. It doesn't matter if it's obvious. It doesn't matter if it's true. NTs live by rules where they do not tell each other the truth, pure and simple. They "lie" under the guise that they don't want to hurt each other's feelings. If you tell them it's lying, that will upset them also, but it is lying pure and simple. That's what they do. You need to learn to do it as well.


Work being part of the rat race also falls into that. It doesn't matter whether it's true or what you meant. They will read it as you are looking down on them. You may be, but you need to lie. Not only will these people get mad at you, many of them will tell your boss you said you couldn't work there because you are too creative and suggest that you are looking. The next thing you know, you'll be out of a job.

So, whether this is school or work, you need to practice your lying, errr politeness, skills. Learn not to tell the truth at all costs. The cost may be too great to pay and what you said will be hardly worth the price.

Well, I think it performs a function. I like not being told "you make me uncomfortable," or "wow, you're really a mental freak, aren't you?" daily.

Actually, if the people who thought that did say it, I'd probably have an easier time of it... Less so stuff like "you are very ugly and pale;" that would get old after a while.

It IS an aspie trait. That is one thing I used to do that I don't anymore. In fact, I go OVERBOARD not to do it. But EVERYONE here probably did it at some point.

Steve

Most people hate me....

-what's worse is when your pionting out what is only obvious to you... pionting out the obvious as per seen by everyone else you may get away with (especially with long term friends) but pionting out the extreme is something I still have trouble controlling,,, and even my long term friends just hate listening to the extreme.

-luckily pionting out comical stuff can be an advanctage.

I try so hard not to come across as rude but it happens anyway. It is so exhausting to try and keep up an NT front all of the time. I really hate it when people try to not be rude to me because I find it very confusing. I often just can't grasp the subleties of NT communication. I wish people would be more brutally honest with me even with the bad stuff. When people are honest with me I usually thank them for their honesty. The funny thing is the NT's get confused when I say that.