Can Aspies Sue?

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Aspies like routines, they thrive when they know what's expected and can prepare for anything ahead.
Aspies find it difficult to enter new situations and initiate action that requires socialization and communication.
Aspies can be made easy targets for harassment and other injustice.

Not only is there a question of whether or not an Aspie is more likely to stay in a bad situation than other people, but I've begun to wonder... Does this mean that Aspies can be victims who are less likely to seek retribution for wrongful acts than other victims?

EEOC finds in my favor ..evidence of illegal practice found upon investigation
took forever and still not thru

WINNING

dont screw with a person
smarter than you

they did try a round-about route gotta give it to them for at least tryin that
but they were out to get me
this is not my perception....i was warned by union that they were

Well, I think Aspies should be able to sue for defamation - we get a lot of that, I know that I've had my share of it.
However, that can be difficult to prove. I've had nasty stuff called about me behind my back, that I was psychotic, had ADHD, was hooked on drugs (that was back in high school, I haven't heard that since), that I was gay, that I'm behaving this way intentionally just to get attention and/or piss people off...for most of those, I probably wouldn't be successful in suing, especially if the slander is to the NT's friends, who would just deny having heard it.

I've heard Aspies been defamed in a worse way, though - like one article I read a few years back about a successful techie Aspie who had his own house (and lived alone) and the neighbours started a rumour that he was a child molesterer who kept bodies in his basement...really sad to hear about ignorance like that. Whoever said that should definitely be sued.

I don't think so, due to the Aspie drive to right wrongs, but I do think they are less likely to follow through simply because they become so disillusioned by the convoluted systems they have to navigate in order to see it through to completion.

There is a web site dedicated to explaining why people with mental disabilities tend never to get any help from government agencies whose purpose it is to help them. The reason I gave above for Aspies being less likely to see a law suit through, is the same as the reason given on that web site for people with mental disabilities to be unlikely to ever get assistance. They simply give up trying, because it's too stressful, and it's too stressful because they have a mental disability.

Can you say, "Catch-22?"

oh trust me.....it has been very difficult and stressful its been 2 1/2 yrs of hell actually
for the most part..no help from others ...if anything more hurtful
very hard to get my point across and the gov. what a joke, my case sat on a desk for 18+mos
but i wasnt gonna give up.............

I have stayed in bad emotional situations because I was afraid that by trying to get out of it I would make my life worse. Now I'd probably be able to just say bye to a person who kept on acting badly towards me but when I was younger I thought everything bad that happened to me was my own fault and so back then I probably wouldn't have sued anyone.

I don't think that I could ever sue anybody. The difficulties of getting through the legal system would stop me pretty quickly. I know that I generally overlook problems, rather than try to deal with them, unless they are really serious. If I was in a bad situation, I would probably just get out of it somehow, but wouldn't try to do more than that.