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I've been wondering if anyone has problems with NTs associating aspies with the other mentally disabled. I have a feeling that because people know about my AS, I'm being associated with the mentally ret*d and emotionally disturbed. I'm reasonably normal, but I keep thinking that people consider me a ''special person''. I've had one guy say I should be in the Special Olympics. I then sarcastically said ''buddy do I like I got a wheelchair?'' With the academically-oriented school I'm in, I'm afraid to show people even a B, lest I be dubbed a ''ret*d''. But, they'll dub me that anyway. Sigh...

I just don't let anybody know about it. Most people have no idea what AS actually is, and they're too damn lazy to actually find out. It makes me angry because whenever somebody talks about something that I don't know about, I make damn sure that when I get home I learn everything about it that I can, so when that topic comes up again I don't look like a philistinian ret*d. But no, thats too much work for NTs, so they just throw me in with the rest of the people whose brains aren't like theirs. So I'm right there with both the mentally ret*d and the unibomber types. Woohoo, I'm ret*d and criminally insane!

Why bother with people like that?

Sad fact is that when people hear autism, they think Rainman types. Even if the word was part of a sentence along the lines of "I have Asperger's syndrom, it is a kind of really mild autism..." I'm not sure what it is that makes them only register the autism part though... stupidity probably.

Which is excatly why it is a good idea to allow people to get to know you at least a little before telling them about AS. Allow them to see that you aren't Rainman so to speak.