Do people think your ret*d before they get to know you?

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I think that it depends on my day, as it does with anybody. Sometimes people think that I'm a bit stupid (especially in class when it comes to group work). Sometimes I could see the solution but I can't describe it to them very well. Sometimes they just seem to ignore my ideas altogether , but maybe that's just me. Other days I could come off as an 'average' person, just listening well and talking to them with an ok voice and fairly good eye contact. Then they're a little taken aback when I say that I have Asperger's. I could say that I really have come far in terms of social life. AHHHHH!! ! I'm transforming into an NT!! ! lol Maybe I'll start developing lobster claws, like the movie "District 9" jk/lol. Anyways, I'm not a genius to others' eyes, and I'm not good at math and science, at least according to my grades these classes. I just have a different way of thinking of things that others sometimes have difficulty understanding. From researching for my Abnormal Psych. paper (titled "Autism and Genius"), it seems as if 'genius' is relative. Some try to base it on IQ or how pedantic your speech is or how you look. Some people we consider geniuses now were not treated as such when they were alive. Sometimes it seems as if some people "dress up" like geniuses in my classes, and sometimes it makes me a little frustrated lol. Maybe it's just on my frustrated days when I feel slightly angry at them for not taking my ideas seriously in group work. Of course, there's the question if I should be angry at them at all for not understanding me. Maybe I just don't understand them, which is always the possible answer.

Yea especially back when I didn't say anything to anybody.

I get this, but anymore, I don't care,
let them think I am. phht.

No one has called me ret*d in my adult life. But when first meeting with hyperactive thinking plus nervousness I have speech problems resulting in sounding like someone who just learned English I get the "whats wrong with you?" look, and then if they ask a question or bring up something to do with one of my interests i'll act like rain man who has taken speed and scare them away; unless they know me then it's different of course. Guess I'll say no one has called me ret*d in my adult life, but under certain conditions a few people probably think it.

All the time.

In defence of NT people, most of them would think having Asperger's Syndrome or high-functioning austism would make you incapable of dressing yourself. Having said that, on the rare occasions that I do explain that I have AS (once, somebody was making insulting generalisations, so I had to step in), they tend to be surprised.

Yup, especially when I went to australia for 5 months, because of my AS-kind of walking/movements some jerks asked me if I'm a ret*d and that I should start thinking, sometimes ppl copy the way I walk and move, but on the opposite, more intelligent (or friendly, perhaps ass-licking) ppl think i'm a genius. I don't know what I am, a ret*d or genius, all I know is that I'm a child and son of the living God

I guess that if you don't look like the typical man, or the typical woman who follows the gender stereotypes, people are going to presume that you're mentally challenged.

I've been called "ret*d", "space cadet", "smart but dumb", "savant" and "stupid" and others more colorful. All probably due to my bipolar disorder and autism. I get dxd all the time for having autism, or aspergers from regular people not doctors. The people in my Sunday school class dxd me as having aspergers. Their all nice people and are just trying to understand things. I don't tell people I'm autistic, they just figure it out.

Dx doesn't mean diagnosis. It only makes sense in combination with d, resulting in d/dx, which is a differential.

People have just called me stupid behind my back. f**k them, I am very intelligent. Sometimes people who are intelligent in a particular area will think your dumb because your not as knowledgeable in that area and not see that you are intelligent in a different area or just think that they're specialties are god's work beyond all other fields. When people act this way they are acting no better than a group of high school jocks. Here in St. Louis many scientists take they're knowledge and just whore themselves to Monsanto or Boeing, not to insult those of you who love science. Some of the activists I've tried to work with think its just hilarious that I'm interested in the Czech Republic and Japan, excuse me for being colorful a**holes.

People can think I'm weird. It sort of depends on what I do. But even those disliking me usually think I appear very smart. I have a little trouble understanding it because I have a tad prob with having the voice volume smooth and appropriate and I almost never say a full sentence in real life. My speech is very babbling. Still they don't seem to notice this. I can express myself much better writing. There is something about trying to talk and think at the same time that is hard for me. It's like those use the same circuit so it is really a very fast serial process instead of parallel. I cannot for my life read out loud well, that is even harder.

http://www.associatedconditionsofcerebralpalsy.com/
http://www.associatedconditionsofcerebr ... /adhd.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cerebralpalsynetwork/
http://www.hemihelp.org.uk/

No, they just think im really shy.

It's interesting how often ret*d/Genius/Crazy coexist.