College student scares off perv by faking autism

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College student faked autism to fend off masturbating dorm invader

Add that to the list of autism's advantages

At her age I did that once in a very stressful situation - out loud, two older men in proximity (not sexual assault, but trauma nonetheless). Maybe in 20 years she'll realize she wasn't faking it.

(Now that I am aware, I did this at work recently -in my head- for relief. Worked great.)

Ironically she chose this caricature of being "autistic" to trigger some kind of stigma in the masturbator as it's hard to jerk off when the person is behaving in a repetitious/unpredictable way. Given he ran away before finishing it must have worked.

I once scared off an aspie by faking being an NT har har.

Actually sounds not far from a Dave Chappele joke except it really happened.

In this case I am totally okay with faking autism just as long as it's to get you out of dangerous situations.

Who can blame the girl....my thought was that she became irrational and panicked....while having an anxiety attack she realised the man backed away and at that point she went full "rainman mode" to push home her advantage in making him go away.

On the one hand she is entitled to use any means necessary to scare away her attacker. Self preservation. On the other hand she seems to think the autistic meltdown is the most scary thing that popped up in her memory.

Now every young woman is going to have a Dustin Hoffman lookalike to scare away would be sexual predators! even more effective than carrying mace

So...if you are a helpless victim of an attacker - the best strategy is to...pretend that you are even MORE helpless than you really are??????

Autism makes you even LESS dangerous than the average innocent NT person. Not more dangerous.

Folks say things like that. "If you get attacked by muggers...act crazy...whip out your dick and wave it around".

What she was doing was "faking insanity". Not "faking autism". And since, like most attackers, the perv guy was pumped up and scared himself, her unpredictable behavior was enough to put him over the top into panic mode. She wasn't really "faking autism". The attacker isn't going to whip out his DSM, and go through the symptoms and then conclude "this chick is autistic, level 3", and then go on to conclude that "that means she is dangerous". He just going to react to her erractic behavior by just panicking himself, and leaving the scene in fear.

You forget the context...the girl was confronted by a masturbator (not a man with a knife/gun)....his sole weapon is his seed....in her mind playing an autistic having a meltdown was the most unsexy thing she could think off....

When I read the phrase "SUFFERED from autism", I reacted in a way that would have scared most people.

Why was the man scared of her? Does he think autism is contagious? Does he see it as being like HIV, but even worse? I think it's sad that in order to protect myself in a dangerous situation, I would have to act MORE autistic, or the misconceptions of one.

I hate the whole world.

[quote="lostonearth35"]When I read the phrase "SUFFERED from autism", I reacted in a way that would have scared most people.

Why was the man scared of her? Does he think autism is contagious? Does he see it as being like HIV, but even worse? I think it's sad that in order to protect myself in a dangerous situation, I would have to act MORE autistic, or the misconceptions of one.

I hate the whole world.[/quote)


No, he was not scared of "catching autism" but because she was growing increasingly noisy with acting out other students would hear and come rushing to see what was going on.

Last edited by envirozentinel on 26 Sep 2019, 10:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.: Clarity

Do I wish the first thought that came to her mind as the scariest thing was not autistic? Of course. When you have a perv in your room and you have no idea of what he is capable of not being offensive is just not the priority.

Oh....we autistics are "unsexy". Thanks a lot. ( and like that would even matter to a perv anyway). Lol!

And how does one even "fake autism" on the fly anyway?

You could (a) kidnap the guy, falsely imprison him, and then force him to listen to you talk obsessively about trains and Star Trek so after weeks of listening to you he gets the idea that you're like Sheldon Leonard. Or you could (b) show the guy your ability to do math in your head, and to figure out the day of the week he was born on...so he gets the idea that you're like Rain Man.

But besides that (imitating one or the other of the two best known cliché autism spectrum characters in media)how could you possibly "fake autism"? And do it with enough velocity to scare someone off? In real life you have to be a coworker, or school mate of an autistic for weeks before you get any sense of them being autistic.

Makes zero sense.

You could "fake being a psycho axe murderer". That I get. But I don't get how you could "fake autism".

Throughout my life I have been told I am sweet on the outside but scary on the inside. I can't say I disagree. I'll do my best to please and placate (ridiculously so), but then watch out!

She must think poorly of autistic people to think they're so scary.