Do Your Classmates know you have Asperger's?

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I know a friend on the bus with mild aspergers we are good friend. I know a friend in the process of getting diagnosed.

I don't think you should tell them. They might be too young to understand, and it might cause name-calling. Only my best friend knows that I have Asperger's, so it's good that only your son's friend knows.

Well when I was 7 I don't think my classmates knew I had Aspergers because it wasn't til I was 14 and 15 that they were talking about it at all with me. Telling his classmates means he might find out from them that he has it. This leads to him going through a transition stage which then becomes him being open and learning more about himself and other people. It'd be best if he started this stage when he is in double digits but that's just my opinion.

Kids are cruel. I wouldn't tell everyone your kid has it. In high school (I wasn't diagnosed until high school) I only told the teachers and a select few friends. Now that I'm in college I tell my professors, most friends (close and not close), and the people on wrong planet about it. I am much more open now because I'm not bullied in college, but I was bullied in elementary through high school and I didn't want to stand out even more. Honestly I don't believe parents should tell ANYONE other than teachers about their children's Asperger's. I believe it should be up to the kids when/who/if they tell. I didn't even let my parents have me tested until they promised not to tell anyone that I didn't give them permission to. Sorry, I know this is the kids section (I'm 19), but I saw other adults post on this thread and since I'm a student with Asperger's I thought I should give my input.

Well up to the 7th grade I was in special schools for developmentally disabled, so not an issue.
Now that I am in regular middle school it is known and I stand out because of it. My autism is
a little more on the severe side so I can't hide being so withdrawn, quiet and awkward. I have a
super great best friend since I was 9 and him and his friends look out for me, which is really
the only way I feel safe attending regular school. And it is easier in a way I guess that the kids
know I am autistic, instead of them speculating what is wrong with me, but at the same time they do not know what being autistic means. So I am just that weird kid. Some kids are nice to me cause of it and other kids avoid me like I am contagious.
But since I am so withdrawn I do not really care as long as they do not pester me. It is hard to say
for me cause I agree with the reasons for telling that a kid has AS and I agree with the reasons for not telling
he has it.

I'm NT and in 8th grade.There's a boy in my grade who has Asperger's and I think that the kids who know that are much kinder and accepting. However, it does make me wonder what that says about my peers. We are so accepting....................once we know that there's something that needs to be accepted. Also, this is my personal experience and thoughts, and I am more well informed about Asperger's than your typical NT student and live in a diverse and "accepting" place. The kid did a presentation to his science class that gave basic Asperger's knowledge, but I'm not sure if that helped prevent the laughing that seemed to occur every time he spoke.

Well my friends and I are social outcasts, so I thought " Who are they going to tell anyway " so I did and it turned out all my friends are neurologically diverse.

No, mine never found out.

I'd rather not, because I was afraid of being labeled as Autistic or the dreaded "ret*d" (Probably the stupidest, most out-dated term in history).

I would not I have had that thought in the past if I should tell someone so I told my teacher at rising star I could say they started treating me and my friend a crossed the street like we were crazy but know that I put some more thought into it they were bending over backwords for me but the printable just didn't understand like one time I talk about Jews when I didn't understand and he did not put that into thought when he said that he had friends that were Jews and that what I said was ring now I got to admit they had a really great counselor but one of the teachers in the fourth grade that was really mean that didn't understand asspergers at all staying that it was not even a form of autism so I had it pretty rough sense then but now I'm okay so I told my friend he thought that it was some kind of joke and treated me like I was ret*d but then I found my real best friend Kyle I told him and he really understood what I was going through.now I'm fine so what I say is wate till your son wants To tell someone

i've never told any of them, a few know i have 'aspergers' but mostly all of them sense i'm different or 'dumb' in some way. that i'm crazy. or a creep.

no matter how hard i try i can't hide it.

If I told anyone they wouldn't understand
#no one gets it unless your an aspie

yas only 3 of my friends coz i am scared that people mock me

3 also.