"you probably don't know what Autism is........?"

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02 Jun 2011, 5:07 pm

Wow, very enfuriating. Someone said this to me on Facebook when a group posted something about Autism, and that it was supposed to be funny. I commented "I don't geddit!" because frankly, it didn't make sense.

Anyways, has anyone else been told that they don't know what autism is when in fact you have it?? It makes me very very angry!

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02 Jun 2011, 5:17 pm

Yes someone once said to me 'Autism is no joking matter, it causes a lot of pain and hardship to the families'.

Erm...

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02 Jun 2011, 5:21 pm

Not necessarly this, but I get also a lot of other stupid stuff said to me. My favourite ''oh yeah, I know about autism. I've watched Rainman!''

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02 Jun 2011, 5:31 pm

Haha, or 'I watched Adam'

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02 Jun 2011, 5:35 pm

I've not had that, but I've had "You can't have Autism! You're not ret*d!"
D'oh.

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02 Jun 2011, 5:41 pm

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I've not had that, but I've had "You can't have Autism! You're not ret*d!"
D'oh.

I would have rammed my fist into their skull.

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02 Jun 2011, 5:43 pm

On DA, some years ago a NT girl posted a tribute for her 3 autistic younger siblings. She wrote about her siblings, and one has commented 'That's not autism!'

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02 Jun 2011, 5:44 pm

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I would have rammed my fist into their skull.

Believe me, I felt like it. Some people seem so uneducated about Autism. ;[

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02 Jun 2011, 5:44 pm

The ignorance of some people - it hurts so bad!

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02 Jun 2011, 5:50 pm

I've been called a flat out liar for saying I'm on the spectrum. Some people...

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02 Jun 2011, 5:56 pm

I haven't told many people but also a girl recently told me that she didn't date disabled people. That really hurt... :cry:

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02 Jun 2011, 6:37 pm

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Haha, or 'I watched Adam'

This one I would find acceptable, Adam was a pretty good guide.

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02 Jun 2011, 6:44 pm

Phonic wrote:

OldFashioned wrote:

Haha, or 'I watched Adam'

This one I would find acceptable, Adam was a pretty good guide.

Adam was too normal IMO.

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02 Jun 2011, 6:50 pm

Those people only know about the worse case scenarios. I could imagine myself getting told the same thing, by somebody who works for Autism Speaks.

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02 Jun 2011, 6:58 pm

OldFashioned wrote:

I haven't told many people but also a girl recently told me that she didn't date disabled people. That really hurt... :cry:

Whoa!! How shallow and close-minded can one get?

After I got diagnosed, and once I had shared the news with my family and closest friends, I thought "OK, it's my choice now who I share this with and how" and so I responded to my friends' curiosities by writing openly on Facebook about how my autism affects me and sharing interesting and educational links on my page. I didn't go crazy with it, just included it with my normal status updates. And then my brother responded with a really insulting email that also said I was talking as if I was "mentally challenged, which you're not". I had never once suggested in ANY part of my writing that I was "mentally challenged". I was honest and gave no more or less than the truth, and still do the same now. My friends have all responded well except a number of them, when I first told them about it, responded with "Oh but you probably don't have it very severely" and were quite dismissive of it, as if it's just a little extra detail on the side, when in fact it is an unchangeable, un deniable part of ME!

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02 Jun 2011, 7:01 pm

OldFashioned wrote:

I haven't told many people but also a girl recently told me that she didn't date disabled people. That really hurt... :cry:

Well, it's kind of a good thing she wouldn't date you. I mean, really, would you want to go out with such a sorry excuse for a person? Not me.

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