Autistic Stereotypes You're Sick Of Hearing?
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That we are all potential mass murderers and commit every school shooting. Of course, when autistic people are targets of bullying, abuse or even murder that never makes the headlines.
That only males can be autistic.
That it's only children who are autistic. Or children are the only ones worth giving a rat's rear end about, anyway.
That we lack empathy, or have none at all.
That we have no imagination.
That we can't feel emotions or show them.
That we're all geniuses when it comes to math (I had a horrible time with math starting in grade 3)
That it's perfectly okay to talk in front of non-verbal autistic people as if they can't hear or understand what you're saying.
That it's perfectly acceptable to want to murder your autistic child.
That we have no life or future and we're nothing but a burden on our parents and society and better off dead.
Using autism as an insult for anyone perceived as weird, creepy, stupid or cringy.
That we're all furries or love My Little Pony and Sonic the Hedgehog religiously (not that there's anything wrong with that)
That people with Aspergers or high-functioning autism or whatever they call it do not have it as bad as people with "classic" autism.
Hitler supposedly was autistic. That must mean all autistic people are like Hitler. Never mind famous people like Albert Einstein or Jim Henson.
If you use interact using social media like Facebook, you can't be autistic.
People just use autism as an excuse for being rude or cringy.
That all we do is spend the day rocking while staring vacantly into space and drooling on ourselves.
That vaccines cause autism.
That children's shows like Peppa Pig or Barney cause autism. They're incredibly stupid shows, but they don't cause autism any more than a good children's show like Sesame Street or Arthur does.
That eating, sleeping, breathing, perspiring, going to the bathroom, coughing, yawning, using the microwave, using the computer, consumption of non-vegan products, playing video games, lack of religion and poor parenting cause autism.
Autism is a national health crisis and a cure desperately must be found.
I guess you could say I'm sick of *all* the stereotypes.
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The Aspergers stereotype that Aspies are super smart. It is a painful reminder that the aspie supremicists were successful in redefining the term.
That Aspergers is a fake syndrome designed to excuse wrong behavior.
That if you call yourself Aspie ot Autistic you are a non autistic wannabe, a social justice warrior, that you think of yourself as the label not as a person or all of the above.
Autistics will never have any success and will always be a burden.
That Autism is something that needs to be recovered from.
Autistic as a synonym for unfeeling, uncaring as*hole.
Related to the above is autistic meltdowns are tantrums designed to willfully manipulate others.
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All Aspies are always arrogant and inconsiderate of others around them like Sheldon Cooper is on
The Big Bang Theory.
Everyone on the Spectrum will never find true love.
All Aspies express eccentric behavior and/or have issues related to self-esteem.
Everyone on the Spectrum will never find independence at all.
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Silly NTs, I have Aspergers, and having Aspergers is gr-r-reat!
the neat and tidy, ridiculously literal, non expressive, just a little quirky stereotype. i watched The good Doctor and Atypical and i feel these characters both play to this stereotype, and amongst other characters it creates a false expectations on how autistic people act.
Autistic people CAN often be disorganized, messy and sometimes even to the point of having a very unsanitary enviroment.
taking things literal IS apart of autism and it happens but GOD they overplay it on television. this behaviour is more prevalent in autistic children (i personally remember having a really hard time with phrases like "your front door is open" and checking the front door every time, when in reality they were talking about the zipper on my pants) but the thing is i never met a autistic person who had difficulty with figurative speech and many people on the spectrum i know (who are adults) use it regularly.
im sick of this flat faced stereotype. it exists, i think all these stereotypes are based in some form of fiction but its very common to meet expressive or even overly expressive and animated autistic people.
and finally the "just a little quirky" thing, it doesnt bother me that much but again, it creates a false and somewhat romanticized idea of what autism really could manifest to be. ive heard criticisms before where people say "you dont seem autistic at all" (which i take as a compliment) and then they do a flip and say " why are you biting yourself? thats weird!" " whoa you like sonic a little TOO much! thats weird." " act your age" and to me its a little funny. of course thats just the nature of autism, no one REALLY knows what it is or what it can look like.
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That we're all either extremely good with math, technology, etc. or are very artistically gifted.
Heck, that we all have some sort of useful talent, skill, or interest. That just makes me feel worse about myself - I have no talents or skills, and my interests in Tool, Pokemon, and Hellraiser aren't ever going to get me anywhere.
That because I'm diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, I must be very high-functioning and perfectly capable of anything an NT can do - the only reason I don't succeed is because I'm not trying hard enough. And there's no way I can possibly have selective mutism - I clearly just don't want to speak.
People saying that just about anything and everything either causes or can cure autism.
That we have no empathy. I have far more empathy than the average NT can even imagine, and am also somewhat empathic - I just don't know how to show it or how to make people feel better.
How every time there's a school shooting, people say the shooter had Asperger's/autism.
That we don't feel emotions. We just don't always show them the way they expect, that doesn't mean we don't feel them.
That all females on the spectrum are excellent mimics, have more socially acceptable interests, and are much less obviously affected than males on the spectrum (none of those are true for me).
That Asperger's is just an excuse to be rude/a jerk (I actually wish people would tell me if something I say comes off that way, so I know not to make the same mistake again - I hate upsetting people in any way).
That there isn't a difference between a meltdown and a tantrum.
That after we're out of school, we no longer need any sort of support - either we're magically "cured" or we just vanish (or so they act, anyway).
That we all lack imagination and didn't enjoy imaginative play as children. I loved to play pretend, far past when most NTs "grow out of" it - heck, I'd still love to if anyone would play with me and I weren't so self-conscious about not acting a part perfectly or the other person/people thinking my ideas were stupid.
That we all lack "theory of mind" - in fact, it seems to me that NTs are more often the ones lacking in that area.
And probably a bunch more I'm not thinking of at the moment.
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I. Suck. At. Math.
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Me too. I don't think I ever got above a C in any math-related class from middle school on, and it wasn't for lack of effort. Numbers and formulae just don't stick in my mind no matter how hard I try.
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-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Outsider"
sometimes more than Non-autistics
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Me too. I don't think I ever got above a C in any math-related class from middle school on, and it wasn't for lack of effort. Numbers and formulae just don't stick in my mind no matter how hard I try.
So do I. During my high school years, I barely got average grades for homework and math tests, but now I'm actually glad no one helped me during that particular time. In fact, I'm glad I hardly had any friends during high school.
I'll take languages over math any day.
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