Saying something but people don't take you seriously

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Do you ever find you say things and people don't take you seriously because of your autism, and find you sometimes get ignored.

People often don't take me seriously and ignore me without knowing about my AS.

Yep

Yes for example when I‘m telling them that I am autistic.

When I have to deal with a huge amount of stress or anxiety, people sometimes don‘t take me seriously which tends to worsen the situation.

If I may ask, can you give me an example on what occasions people don‘t take you seriously? (Sorry for my bad english btw)

Oh yes, this has happened to me throughout my life. For the 45 years before I was diagnosed, I would often try to honestly describe my perceptions of the world only for people to assume that I was joking, mocking myself, exaggerating, or high on something. I ended up either resolving to never talk about those things again, or talking in quite a flippant way about them so that, if people thought I was being self-deprecatingly funny, it would seem like a plausible explanation and I could laugh along with them while secretly cringing inside. This was sometimes how I discovered that parts of my mind didn't work like other people's (e.g. hyper-focus, dissociation, sensory sensitivities, synaesthesia.)

Yeah, it happens a lot.

That was the story of my life as a kid. My peers thought I was mentally ret*d, my teachers didn't listen to me because they thought I was a problem kid partly due to the bullies ganging up on me & blaming me, & my parents were frustrated with me because of my issues.