I sometimes hate people's attitudes to Asperger's/Autism

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I also recall that same teacher calling me a freak or something like that behind my back to one of my siblings at the primary school, or saying ''that thing'' about me or something.

I had very severe OCD and sensory processing issues as a child and this will have made my behaviour odd, but did it really warrant THAT kind of talk?
I don't think so

Again, I don't understand the intensity of hatred people feel towards us sometimes. ARGHHHHHHHH!! !

Why exactly is it? WHY?!

Because people are often hateful monsters to anyone who they perceive as different, whether they intend it or not.

That also goes for parents as well. I've also found that autism parents can be the same monsters towards their grown children that they were to them as children.

Most of my teachers were very supportive of me and a couple of them were really inspiring. My kindergarten teacher thought something was wrong with me, although I never got a diagnosis of autism. "Hyperactivity" was the term used in those days. That teacher said I would never learn English. I went on to get a Master's Degree and have worked with the English language in some discipline (teaching, writing, editing, library work) for over twenty years.

Most of my problems came from the other kids, mainly the troublemakers at school. My deepest regret is that I was really remote and didn't cultivate friendships with the nice kids who really did want to get to know me. I'm making up for lost time now.

Yes, this is true. And most of us have parents that are themselves on the spectrum because it's genetic.

Yeah I don't think that my mom is on the spectrum and I know my dad isn't. If he were, he couldn't make his present living as a con man. So I'm not sure where it comes from and the funny thing is that I said my first word at like 2 months old or something. But by the time I was 8, I was definitely showing signs of it, maybe earlier, but I can only remember till 7 or 8.

I quite agree with you CockneyRebel, Autism parents can be monstrous to their children as mine were to me. My parents were undiagnosed and using a strategy quoted by Tony Attwood known as "arrogance and denial". Too proud to admit there was a problem and the anger of it all gets focused on their children.