NT comment about autism

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I'm a bit irritated today as one of my coursemates made silly comments on finding out I was autistic (we study neuroscience and learn about autism aswell).

We were talking about the exam set up today and I mentioned I was in a different room

Him: "ah so your one of those special ones who gets extra stuff, what's wrong with you then?"
Me: "oh I'm autistic"
Him: "no you can't be"
Me: "yep"
Him: "can you read code then, like morse code"
Me (with confusion): "um no"
Him: "but that's what autistic people do haven't you seen the films"
Me: "not all autistics are like that hahaha they are savants"

I laughed it off but it still irritated me, this person often moans about special people getting extra time and stuff aswell. He has also that autism isn't a disability and people with it should just 'buck up' and deal with it.

Neuro-Typical to me just means that it's someone who's very easily prone to public brain-washing. I get bothered by these robots, too, but I have done enough research at this point to know the root-causes of these mind-control phenomena.

he is just an ignorant. I hope he learns something about autism in neuroscience.

Somone at work made a comment about a town near by being high in autism. I cut her off because afraid where ther was going.

People always assume we have some special gift like the art guy or the one famous for playing piano.

I'm always like nope I don't have any gifts.

Yes get the buck up thing even here from other aspies. That's more s middle class resentment of people getting aid. Was the guy from a middle class family or conservative background?

Tends to be the two groups I've seen that from.

It's great how autistic people are given help in school now and special consideration for exams etc.

Maybe if I'd received such things I might have finished high school.

Anyway...

Those people who moan about 'special privileges' for autistic people should be locked in a room with music blaring, lights whirling and flickering, and multiple videos screening, and be made to wear a hessian sack while sitting on a block of concrete, writing their exam with a pen covered in spikes.

That should even things up a little.

An a**hole and an idiot all in one!

Just yet more proof university is useless and many students just büllshît their way through the system without learning or retaining much knowledge at all.

A third year neuroscience student who doesn't know something as simple as that? I would have told him he should be ashamed of himself for being so ignorant.

It's like someone in their final year of medical school not knowing how vaccination works (all I did was Biology in 11th and 12th grade and can describe in detail the process it does to the body).

Raleigh, I love your suggestion for how NTs should take exams

I have special talent. I can't read Morse code but this past week I made three hand-made dolls of The 1990's Powerpuff Girls using two pillowcases, fabric markers and paint.

I don't get it, am I not supposed to be talented because that's a myth about being on the spectrum? So I'm that way in spite of it, then?

Fair enough.

I do know the college system typically attempts to 'weed-out' the lazier students, but I think the reality is some can still make it through. The smartest slackers know how to beat a system designed to get rid of them yet still manage to pass.

It's what slackers are known for - doing as little work as possible, but doing the bare minimum possible to pass.

And, of course, some degrees are more difficult than others, especially something like Mathematics.

We're all different, but I'd like to think mathematics, accounting and most science subjects are more difficult than, say, Social Sciences or English.

I've heard of plenty of anecdotal evidence, and we have some here in this very thread.

Someone studying neuroscience and doing an assignment specifically studying Autism shouldn't show that much ignorance.

And, we all know in high school it's ridiculously easy to cheat your way through the system or do the bare-minimum amount of work absolutely necessary to pass.

Then again, high school is not optional education, and has the policy to try and get as much students passing as possible with maximum help and coddling, basically doing as much as possible without directly giving the answers (many times the answers were even essentially hinted/implied to us that no one could miss it).

I did manage to bullsh*t my way through senior Biology - the same generic formulaic approach, paraphrasing sentences from older assignments, paraphrasing things on other websites but making it look just enough like my own writing, heck, sometimes typing complete nonsense and gibberish but just put the correct terminology every 5th word or so, and yet it's the class I got the highest grades in at the end of the year.

I do currently have a friend studying a game design course. Very amusing. He doesn't attend classes so lessons are posted online, he does very little work and only when he falls really behind he tries to frantically catch-up. He's passing just fine.

My mother tried but failed to find the time to do a home design course 'part-time' (cancelled the course).

While it was hard for her as a busy mother, I saw what kind of work she had to do and such, and I could definitely keep up on every lesson and juggle a part-time job or two if I was studying that one course.

I've found most people to be completely ignorant of autism, there is no positive reaction you can get by telling someone that. I do not speak of it with people that are not professionals. Remember a lot of people's perception of schizophrenia is some cartoonish multiple split personality, people are DUMB!