Did anybody ever talk to you like your deaf or ret*d b4?

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After you told somebody you were autistic, did they ever talk to you like you were deaf or something? Or talk to you reallll slow like you have down syndrom? I was on cafepress.com and saw this

and it just made me think of how many people talked like that to me! Like screamed or talked real loud like I was deaf or something! Anybody else have similiar experiences?

Actually yes. When I was younger (single digits in age), the doctors thought I was def, before they ran an audio test. I remember being incorrectly diagnosed until they finally found out I had Aspergers Syndrome, and even then, they thought I was plain old Autistic, only a couple years later they said "oh, you got aspergers!".

Mainly, I didn't respond to words, because I was still trying to processes the words. These days, I respond very fast, but not so when I was a little kid.

Yea my family thought i was deaf, every year I got at least 3 hearing tests, and now have a dx of CAPD(central auditory processing disorder) which is like too good of a hearing.

Yes...people do this to me.

My mother does this to me when trying to explain something to me. She talks slow, I have no idea why people do this. It gets irritating though.

YEP! If you say something that sounds contrary to public belief, ask a question where others think it is OBVIOUS, etc... They may start talking down to you. This has happened to me a number of times, and over 80% of the time, the OTHER guy ends up being an idiot!

I am the kind of guy that can walk in, have a couple people figure I am an idiot that knows nothing about computers, and they end up getting thrown out, and I leave a hero, with people thinking I am some sort of genius. Of course, it usually isn't THAT obvious, but it has been at times.

TOO many times I have to listen to DRECK simply because it was political or I figured it would take less time than asking them to stop.

Of course, there HAVE been a LOT of times where someone talks down to me, figures I don't know much, struggles with something for weeks/months, and I take care of it in a few hours or less. I once even did that by ACCIDENT! A routine ran slow for at least many MONTHS! It bothered me, and I made it go well over 20 times as fast. I was later asked to speed it up, and found out it was that program. I said OH, I just did that!

Intelligence is pretty hard to quantify.

When a female talks to me normal because she understands Im not actually stupid, I get the idea that shes coming on to me only because shes being genually nice and not faking it.. And it gets frustrating after a while Im so used to people talking extra loud to me or moking me.

It sucks, it annoys the hell out of me when people do this, but I do it to others sometimes too if I'm looking for an immediate response. Maybe from being raised with that going on, or maybe because I don't talk a ton to most people as it is, but once I get comfortable I need an answer to questions before I forgot what I have asked, so I tend to yell if no one flat out says "hold on a second, I'm thinking about it".

I don't talk normal like this to people though, I just have pretty much no sense of how loud I am actually talking.

This has never happened to me, though people have explained too much to me before and insulted my intelligence (intentionally or not).

On another forum I was just called a ret*d because I confessed I have difficulty learning from a book, rather than proper instruction.

Of course, this is coming from a fellow who thinks smuggling beer into sporting events is the coolest thing ever.

My mum has something called Meniere's disease which makes her have dizzy spells. Once she had one in Tesco. The first aider was called and all sorts of commotion started. The first aider took us aside and (shudder) touched my arm, then in a high pitched voice comparable to that one would use on a two year old explained that 'your mummy will be okay...' I knew she would, she has had this illness since I was three!

HECK, that is apparently COMMON for people with AS. Hey, I CAN/HAVE learn/ed a LOT from books. Don't get me wrong, but DOING is far better.

Does that mean we're ret*d? NO WAY! Hey, how can THEY learn? Sometimes, I wonder if any really do.

I have been called a GOOD teacher. I can explain things pretty well. Still, I have this amazing power(sarc). With some people I can show them certain information is wrong, explain why, and have them STILL ask endlessly if it is any good. Sometimes I am dumbfounded that they can even WALK!

I have noticed that a lot of people who cast aspersions on other people's intelligence are usually pretty dumb themselves, just like the people who think smuggling beer into a sporting event constitutes "coolness."

I do well at my job and got good grades in school, but ridiculously little things can defeat me several times a day. It makes me feel stupid.

Once, a flight attendant ignored me because she knew I was in a wheelchair.

Regardless of disability, we should be treated with respect!

Girls did it to me in high school, but the way I acted around them gave them reasonable suspicion.