AS generalizations that you've heard people talk about

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I once heard a woman in the resource room at my school in grade 9 or 10 saying that kids with Asperger's Syndrome are selfish/self centered.

What a b***h.
Anyway I havent heard anyone talk about AS in much of any way, because pretty much no one knows what it is still. Well, the NTs basically dont anyway.

c**t!! !

I've seen lots of people say that people with AS are just making excuses and they are "lazy"... not sure if that is what you were lookin for though.

*autistics are just like rainman,they have these amazing gifts yet need looking after
*all autistics are mentally ret*d,it's impossible to be autistic and not mentally ret*d [said by someone who really should know better as a care worker for autistics for years]
*people with aspergers are computer experts.

what, dont you care for others feelings?

People with asperger's are compulsively neat and hyper-organized..

I definitely give lie to that. Although I always make my messes in exactly the same way....

I've heard some really ignorant assumptions, unfortunately:

* people with AS are the ones who commit school shootings
* people with AS are horrible writers
* people with AS are often mistaken as being mentally ret*d

Yeah, these are the sentiments I've heard before.

Since I'm sure I'm probably considered an NT here or much closer to an NT than any of you all , I find all this pretty sad.

I've never thought that about folks I've met that behave differently than me. Maybe it's because of my ADD/HD and all the social stuff I'm weird about.
There is someone at work who I have never had a problem relating with who may be AS, but there are people who walk away from dealing with this person and they always say the same things... "She is so rude", "She won't look you in the eye", etc.

I could never understand how they could so totally mis-read this person. Like I've said, I never found any problem relating to her.
Sure, I noticed the eye-thing, and the direct comments, but heck, she's way more interesting than most anyone else at work because she doesn't pretend to be who she's not and she isn't trying to impress anyone.
I find her the LEAST annoying person there. Everyone else has this "Me first, Me always right, It's all about ME" attitude that sometimes gets on my nerves, but she doesn't(actually she isn't even the least annoying because I can't think of anything she does that is truly annoying on any long-term scale).

I find the folks here at WP to be interesting and entertaining. Should I wish to work more with folks like you all instead of the people I do work with?

How do I arrange that?

Maybe I could get a bunch of you to move here and get jobs. I just have to figure out how to time things so the current batch of people (but not the one I mentioned), leave at the same time you all get their jobs.

Give me some time to work this out... okay?

Some others don't have feelings to care for, e.g. our detractors.

That was just someone too stupid to realize that most autistics that don't appear to be ret*d don't need that help!

Autistic DOES mean into oneself, so there is the appearance of being selfish, etc... Then again, I was even accused of interrupting when the OTHER person interrupted

* being orderly to the point of an obsessive compulsive disorder
* not being able to communicate
* absolutely self-absorbed
* can't live without constant care
* can't discuss topics with other people in an attentive and objective way
* don't understand abstract topics at all
* there's a real person behind the autism
* autism is always mental retardation
* having AS makes you like a geek or nerd
* that autistic people have a strange, distorted appearance
* autistic people don't realise what is going on around them

I got all of the above from people. I tried to quote them from memory.

My mother talks down on it. She has told me they don't care about other people's feelings and they think "So sad" when they hurt someone's feelings because they think it isn't their problem and it's the person's problem who is hurt and the aspie doesn't give a care. She has also said they don't care about other people and they only care about themselves.


My last boyfriend said most aspies are like that, talking about the aspie hubbies on aspie partners sight where NTs b***h and moan about their spouses.

"It's some kind of disease that makes you smart but really bad social skills."

This said by some moron sophomore in describing a friend of mine. I actually had not realized he was an Aspie, as he managed to pass for more or less normal. But, looking back, it did kinda explain the two of us getting into arguements over which way knights should be facing on the chessboard...
That way of characterizing AS really annoyed me though. It's not a disease, and it is nowhere near as simplistic as this kid made it out to be.

I've never heard anyone speak about AS besides me, outside of the internet. The first time I heard about it was on the TV show House, when it was suggested that Dr. House had Aspergers. The show left me with a false impression that Aspies were all confrontational, rude, and indifferent to being accepted by others, even though they finally decide that House isn't one. I remember telling my dad after that episode that I thought I had something similar to Aspergers, but that I couldn't actually have AS because I felt emotionally upset when I fought with people.

I think MADDuck may have made the generalization that everyone with AS either is on antidepressants or should be on them.