Ignorant People Say To Autistics

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB48dvpzWy4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fTBM_3sdwE
I did find those 2 videos and would like to share them with you

Beer, I've been encountering similar people my entire life. Now, instead of getting mad about it or trying to change the world, I tell myself that these people have their own problems, and then do my best to avoid them. I like to think I take a live and let live approach to life even if people like this do not.

I didn't find the videos funny, accurate or anything. Maybe they were well-intended, but the result was hamfisted.

I do think they're accurate. I've seen and heard many people, including autistics, say these kind of things. One of the reasons I keep my diagnosis a secret.

I'd wager to guess the biggest fallacy that people say is, "But you don't look like Rain Man." The funny thing, of course, is Kim Peek (Rain Man) wasn't even autistic.

It also doesn't help that Hollywood's portrayals of spectrumites lean towards those with pronounced symptoms (Adam, Snow Cake, Marathon Boy, etc). This leads the casual observer to be skeptical whenever a friend or family member suddenly turns around and says they're on the spectrum. No one believes them.

I've even had friends assert that I somehow managed to cure myself, or that I no longer displayed any of my prior ASD habits. Funny how they've been ignoring me for months...

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I found these a bit tedious, anyone can make a clip of stoopid people saying stoopid things about anything.
As a rant - well, ok, but I didn't find it useful.
Educate yourself? There's too much to know about it and there ARE other subjects on the planet -some of them even interesting. Each also with too much to know.
Everyone is different. Everyone.
That's what the whole concept of 'Friend' is about, working with another individual and their specific idiosyncrasies.
One cannot prefab synchronization that prefits every unmet person. Nor especially ask NTs to. One must adjust in fluid, real-time situations.

Friend making is inversely proportional to the speed of annoyance.*
We have to slow down our annoyance. These videos don't help that.


(*Don't quote me on that, I'm bad at math.)