"That's so Autistic!"

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I have used the Rain Man term. I thought I was the only one and I stuck it in my story recently. I have always intended it as a joke to refer to their behavior. I have even called my online friend Homer because he was always drinking whenever we were chatting.

I never relate to people who use these kinds of terms as I'm just not one to mindlessly insult others
so it's a type of behaviour that's completely alien to me

I do realise though that other words that are used as insults like moron, idiot and cretin are older words for people with a learning disability/possibly even autistic people and I use the idiot word sometimes as it has passed into everyday useage with most people forgetting its origins. It's the same principle though. If I don't like the word ret*d I should not be using idiot either.

And as for 'mong' - I find that word horrendously offensive! I would never ever use it.

The fact other people can be a lot more easy going about their word usage demonstrates to me how different I am from the majority and how words can have far more significance and power to me than to others. It's an example of how most people have incredibly thick skins and I have effectively no 'skin' in terms of my level of sensitivity.

The writer Doris Lessing wrote about having this lack of 'skin' and when I read this I felt a lot better about it
"I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands."

She is a nobel-prize winning writer so I thought I'm in good company being like this.

Thick-skinned people have who exactly as their role models? Beavis & Butthead?

I have never heard "thats so autistic" used in conversation before. Most people say "thats ret*d" or "thats gay". I am giving examples, i apologize that they are all offensive.

Yet honestly i've never heard kids using "thats autistic" as slang until the original poster mentioned it.

I have heard people say this. Its mostly used by younger kids who dont really know what it is. Like when they call someone gay to say they are stupid before they know the meaning of it.

I've never heard the phrase "that's so autistic" before, and I was around dumb high school kids for three years. I have heard people say "I'm OCD about this" or "Why is that being so bipolar?"

No, and glad I haven't heard that being tossed around my school. I would get pretty mad, I think. It already ticks me off to no end when girls are like: LOL I AHM SO OCD TODAY.

Or like: Gurhl, you're so OCD!
Response: I know right?

Or: I'm so ADD today. (That makes me really mad because I've got ADD problemos. Don't appreciate people making light of it like that! You can't just randomly decide when to have or not to have it!)

Glad I haven't heard autistic being thrown around like that. I go to school with supposedly smart people, they should know better than that. But I dunno. Teenage girls will be teenage girls.

I dunno, I just get really offended when people throw around OCD, ADD, or Autism like it's just cool slang for something.

I won't continue ranting, though I could.

((Heh, watch as I go to school Thursday and someone goes: That's so autistic" ))

I have heard it used in a way to say that someone is obsessed with something

I'm glad you guys haven't really been hearing it often. I personally think it will become a popular term used to define whatever they believe the term to mean. I was honestly pretty offended the first time I read it and heard it in person. The people who use it have no idea that I'm autistic, which is priceless.

When I see someone who's acting in a very autistic like manner, I will make a mental note of it.