Autistic Stereotypes You're Sick Of Hearing?

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It's factually incorrect that people with AS/Aspergers lack empathy - they just
don't tend to know how to show it and usually struggle to put themselves in
someone's shoes.

It seems to me that many people, both NT and on the spectrum, think only people with "mild" autism like myself don't want a cure.

But I can't comprehend why any parent, no matter what their child's level of autism, would think just because some quack told them so that using a bleach enema would cure the kid of the parasites causing their "disease".

That all Aspies are incapable of lying. Some Aspies actually believe this stereotype.

That we're necessarily good at maths.

Let's band together. Truth. We all in an NT world.

ASD women miss the part where we are supposed to change our voice tone and our body language when men are nearby.

I'd be lying if I said if I never lied, I'm just not good at it. Plus I was taught that lying is wrong no matter what, and doing it to avoid trouble will soon get you into even more trouble, and trust is something you can't just get back once it's gone. Of course, that rule would be temporarily forgotten if someone told me not to tell anyone that they were being molested or on drugs or whatever.

And I've posted on the "Post a blatant lie" forum lots of times because it's just for fun, and I like to make up a crazy whopper that no one but a four-year-old would possibly believe. That's what they mean by "blatant".

"So, your like rain man?" or, better yet(This is an actual response I got from someone I know when I told them I have Aspergers): "whats 10,000 times pi?"

Come on, don't be sense. You know darn well that women higher their voice pitch for the benefit of men without having to think about it. It doesn't have to be a man they are interested in. Women still do this.

I an sick of hearing, "You can't be Autistic, you must be Asperger's." First of all, the grammar Nazi in me gets angry because the correct verb is have, not be. If you want to use the verb "be" in that sentence, then you must say Aspergian, not Asperger's. Secondly, I get So angry because whenever I am told this by people, it is usually in the same breath as, "You are not Autistic because I can't see it." Well if you've only known me for the duration of that particular conversation, of course you are not going to see it. I hate the stereotype that there is such a thing as an Aspie who has no real struggles at all. Basically some people think that you can be an Aspie and your only struggles are that you have a little shyness or slight social awkwardness. This really makes me angry.

I hate the way people think that just because you have ASD it means you are unable to read facial expressions or feel empathy. Even others on the spectrum think this too. Not everybody on the spectrum is blind to emotions and expressions of others. It makes me mad when people doubt me when I say how well I can read facial expressions, tone of voice and body language.