Things you used to believe

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I used to believe autism was a useful and clear cut diagnosis. Now that everyone and their dog is getting diagnosed, I know autism/aspergers can be a bullshyt diagnosis a lot of the time. Even Temple Grandin agrees with me.

Sorry if this is a little NSFW...but I used to think a 'blow job' was an actual job. People got paid to...you know!! !

well...I guess some people do...but...well...oh never mind...why are we talking about this anyway?

I thought Robin Hood was a real story and he was actually a famous person in history.

I believed I was adopted, because my siblings tried to convince me of that, even though I look just like my mom.

My mom had an old minivan that she "drove into the ground", which I thought meant we buried it in the ground when she got a new one.

The first time I missed my menstrual cycle, my sister actually convinced me that I was pregnant. I was fourteen and had never done anything that could possibly get me pregnant. I cried for days and then decided to name my "baby" Vanessa. (Sorry if this one is TMI )

I thought that if I touched somebody's beer bottle or wine glass, I would get drunk.

My brother moved to New York City when I was five to live with his mother, but I thought he was sent to military school because he got into trouble a lot. I then became terrified of getting into any trouble, because I though my mom would do the same to me. (once again, blame my sister )

My last name is incredibly common where I live, and my sister convinced me that all people with that last name (including the person I had a crush on) were related. Therefore, she said my crush and I were cousins and it was wrong to like them.

I could go on and on, but long story short...my sister was evil.

I thought that if I got into trouble too often, I'd get kicked out by my parents. I was pretty well-behaved, but I still left at 17 to end the suspense. Until she was dying, my mother never knew that I thought dad had expected me to keep the summer job and not come home.

When I was first diagnosed with ASD when I was 8, I thought that I was the only one in the whole world who had it.

I used to think that we were all inside the planet Earth on a huge flat surface, and the sky was the top half of the Earth like a dome. I got baffled each time I looked at a globe.

I used to think that each country were seperate pieces of land like islands.

I used to think that if I swallowed even a tiny bit of soap I would breathe out bubbles for the rest of my life.

I used to think that if, for example, you bought something that costed £10 and you paid with £5, you'd get £5 change. I learnt the hard way that that is not how it works, when I was about 10, when I bought something that costed £1 but I only had 80p so I thought "it's OK, if I give the lady this, she'll give me 20p change." That was when I realised that you have to pay MORE to get change, not LESS.

I used to think that teachers had a special piece of technology where they can watch what I'm doing when I'm at home. I got especially paranoid when I went to the toilet, although deep down I knew it was irrational thinking.

I used to think babies literally came out of your tummy, like your tummy would burst open like double doors and presto!, there's your baby.

I used to think you had to give your baby a name the very minute it's born.

I used to think the news reporter on the TV could see into your house if you had your TV on on the news channel. I believed it up until I was about 9 or 10, because of one time when I put my tongue out at the TV and the news reporter actually frowned.

When DVD players first came out I used to think they were like juke boxes or something.

I used to think that cashpoints gave you free money.

Back when I was somewhat religious, I thought god only put me on this planet so I would be a toy for everyone to be mean to me and treat me bad and act like I am not normal because my parents kept telling me I was "normal" so I made this conclusion about why I was being treated like I wasn't normal and it was something done by god. Yes I wanted to kill myself by 6th grade because I was so sick of the treatment I was getting and not being able to be normal. Why even be here if I was never meant to be here? I hated god and the humiliation he put me through for my big boobs and my body in 6th grade and making me start my period. I had another weird thought that it was because my name is Beth and everyone else in the world with that name got picked on and made a easy target. I created conspiracies because I didn't know what was wrong and that was before I knew about Asperger's and I know this can happen to none ASD kids too but the thing was there was nothing different about me for kids to pick on me because I wasn't black, I wasn't gay or transgender, I wasn't poor, yes I did talk funny and stuttered sometimes but there were other kids in my school who also talked funny too and they didn't get the same treatment as me so something was going on and I suspected I had something wrong with me and my parents didn't believe it when I tried to tell them. They just wanted to pretend everything was okay with me and that everything that was happening at school was all normal. Technically it was normal because that is what kids do to other kids, treat others bad who are different and they go after the most normal looking child who they think is the weirdest. If I didn't attend there, I am sure they would have found another kid to pick on they think is the weirdest and the most normal looking and it could be another kid with a disability who was less weird than me or they just find some random kid to pick on for a few days and then move onto the next one like my parents thought was happening at my school and thought I was being too sensitive and whining. Then i said it happened to be all the time and my younger brother spoke up saying "yeah mom kids are really mean to Beth everyday." I just think it's ridiculous that it took other kids to make my parents notice something was wrong with me and to get me a diagnoses. Then she admits in my teens she knew I had something than just a language delay. So she knew then but just thought if she kept on telling me I was normal, I would be dumb enough to believe it and move on and pretend nothing was wrong and it was all in my head and I was just imagining all this. But she was so naive to think a kid won't notice they're different if you try and hide it from them and treat them as a person as possible and treat your other kids the same way too so they won't know and also sneak therapy in by doing fun activities with them and having them do fun classes so they won't know.



Another thing I believed was I fell for some stereotypes so I thought Native Americans were called Indians for real and they all lived in tepees and wore feathers and fur and said "how" and made these Indian sounds and I thought everyone in Alaska lived in Igloos and everyone in Texas lived in wooden homes and all the buildings were wooden and the wild west and everyone rode horses and shot guns at each other, I thought everyone in Arizona and New Mexico lived in houses made out of sand and dirt and all the buildings looked that way too and I didn't know people in other countries had the same cars as us and same lifestyle and had the same items as we did like appliances and computers and American movies, I just thought they all lived like the olden times I always saw on TV. I even thought people in London rode buggies and used horses and all their roads were cobbled and they used gas lamps for light and then I thought they used old fashioned cars from the olden times. It took me until 101 Dalmatians when I realized they lived the same way as we do and their cars are modern like ours and they have paved streets, no cobble and they have power like we do, no gas lamps, (well they still do in the streets, they are one of the few cities in the world who still have street lights that run on gas) and they have the same stuff as we do and our movies and I figured out the rest of the world must be that way too.


I thought MI6 was a fictional headquarters in London from James Bond.

I didn't know all the songs I was hearing in movies were real songs from real life. I thought they only existed in movies so I would get excited whenever I would recognize the song on radio or on one of our CDs from a movie. Well technically some songs are only made for a movie but then they release the song for real.

I thought people on TV said whatever they wanted and they were all playing a game for to see who stays alive whenever the movie was about shooting and people dying in it and I thought they recycled characters for other movies by giving them different names. I didn't know they were actors. I thought they were all fake people and just drawn out and made to look real. I would be confused when my dad would say where a movie was filmed because I thought he was saying it actually happened and they camera people just went there and filmed them doing it after my mother had told me it wasn't real. I was in 4th grade when I figured it out.