What do people around you say about AS?

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For me, its when I tell people I have it. When I do its "Holy Crap, your Autistic? But you aren't ret*d..."

Lol. I just told them having AS doesn't mean your ret*d, you just have certain problems. They were ok with that.

No one here in Germany knows it (except psychologists or the like), but the German Wikipedia article is rather positive so I linked people to it already.

My boss from work calls me Rain Man.

Most people I tell about AS:
1) mispronounce it
2) have no idea what it is

I told one guy I had it and he didn't know what it was, and completely stopped talking to me because he thought I was seriously crazy, I guess. He was a good friend up to that point.

Actually, when I was in third grade my teacher thought asperger's meant "extremely ani-social and mild mental retardation" so she put me in a special corner, told everyone I had asperger's so I was made fun of, and she talked to me like a baby and gave me the lesson again after she told the class. My third grade year wasn't so great.

Well I was sent to camps and activities together with other people with similar problems, just that some important and official person thought that I was ret*d and had much in common with very violent people on medicine and people with downs syndrome. I hated it but someone, I don't know who, convinced my parents that it was good for me and that I would make friends with similar conditions or something.

I’m not saying that I have anything against these people, but I still don’t see why I would have had anything at all in common with them. I hope feeling insulted doesn't make me a neuro-nazi.

i never hear NTs talk bout autism unless its sumthin and autistic person done to someone else such as assault