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Oooh - yeah - I hate to be told how to think - that sort of 'Oh, you are one of those, that must be so sad for you . . .' mentality . . .
The other thing that goes along with that is being treated as I say 'like a ret*d 2 year old' - I'm 30 and I almost have a Ph.D. but I'm on six medications for my bi-polar and my pharmacist talks to me like I have just one brain cell left . . . you know, 'Now don't take these two together because they can cause bad things to happen . . .' so I say 'Yeah, those are both heavy metals which means they could cause cirriosis in only a few doses, isn't that right?' and he says, very quietly, like I had just gotten that by chance 'Yes - now with these tranquilzers if you take more than the recomended dose you could die, so try not to do that . . .'
Sometimes I think it would be hysterically funny to yell at him and see if he passes out or something . . .
Lord, who knows what he would do if I told him I have a form of autism, too!

Right - ok - I see - I get that, too - when I tell people I just got diagnosed with HFA/AS they say 'You can't be autistic . . .' like I'm making this up and really enjoying the fact that I've been bombarded with images like Rainman all my life when I think of autism and I'm enjoying the idea that I have a form of that disease . . .

I hate it when people think of autism as a disease!

I am amused when people think autism is a disease.
Someone says something about autism being a disease.
Me: "Yes, Autism is a disease, and i have it, i could open my wrist and take out every Motherf***er in this place."

I hate people thinking of AS as a disease. I think of it as evolution.