Stories about how you told someone you have Aspergers

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I have an intresting story about this. Over the summer I worked at a sleepaway summer camp in the office. The office manager who worked there also worked part time as a secretary for a doctor who specialized in kids with autistic spectrum disorders. one day it was a few days before the summer camp actually started ( it was staff training week at the time she was telling me how once camp started i couldnt go on myspace anymore on the computers because if someone from outside the camp came into the office it would look like i wasnt doing any work. I decided tis was the time to tell her i had aspergers. I actually told her by saying telling her " Ok Ill just go on wrongplanet.net instead because not many people reconize the site by the webpage or even know of the site, though some people at her other job might. I then explained that my use on myspace was mainly for support groups about aspergers and such and how wrongplanet.net was a site for those with aspergers

I was asked what website I was on while I was monkeying around on WP....by a guy who was doing some electrical work..and I told him...He had never heard of Aspergers....I didn't say i have Aspergers, I just explained how I was neurologicly kinda "different", and I identify with people who are on the autistic spectrum, and WP is a site for people who are on the autistic spectrum.

I decided to tell a (at the time) close friend that it was possible that I had AS. I asked if I could speak to her and we set a time (we work together so it was at work). So I told her - my voice came out completely expressionless because I was nervous at her reaction. I have heard her being sympathetic to friends about simple things such as backache, so I expected that she wouldnt treat me badly. Anyway, she basically said to me that nothing was wrong with me, that I was just choosing to not be social with people and she didnt see why I couldnt be friendly to other people if i managed it with her. I was so shocked by what she said (I thought she was a nice person) that I started crying and after that she started accusing me of wanting to spend too much time with her (well I did because before this conversation I felt that she accepted me, which most people did not and I liked time spent with her). Our friendship was never the same after that. I ended up shouting at her (at another time) because she did something that really hurt me and after that she stopped talking to me. So through trying to tell her something that was really important to me I ended up losing her as a friend. Now a year later (we still work together) she completely ignores me and never speaks to me at all. I have no idea what she thinks about me, but obviously she hates me for shouting at her.

I have another incident, but I have brought it up too many times and now I feel whiny.

I've told some teachers I was autistic, and they were largely understanding, but when I tell people online, they sometimes suggest I'm using my autism as an excuse for doing bad things, even when I don't...

The only time it really came up importantly, was when I had to explain it to my girlfriend- and she showed the wikipedia entry to her mom. To get my sweetheart to further understand it, I read her that thread "You Might be an Aspie if". She thought it was quite funny, and might've understood it a little better, because of that.

i tell always when i am on boards i got as so people will know i am very unpridicable of writting something i didnt mean or want to hurt people without knowing i hurt someone because my social problems (hurting people feelings)

so if i hurt someone feelings here , it is prolly because i have as :p