How do NT peers treat you when they get to know you?

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They used to always talk down to me. Especially when they got to know me. When I had "friends" they treated me like a pet. Right now since I avoid NT peers, they usually treat me quite normally. I usually end up pushing them away before they get the chance to talk down to me.

Well, it varies from person to person. Most are taking advantage to me but I've become increasingly aggressive against them so it's not happening anymore. But in general, I'm being treated badly by essentially everyone besides a selective few. Probably because I'm annoying!

Many times they cling to their psychopathic behaviors even more, treat me sub-human, and take advantage of me.

I become a threat to them and their instincts take over, nullifying their reasoning ability.

When NT people get to know me they usually leave me alone, because they realise that that is what I want.

To me there are three kinds of people, two of them I got to know.

The first kind is the people who are inherently friendly and accepting, they don't really care if you are different and are always up for a talk. These kind of people are sadly rare but when you find them they make great friends. A few of these people I knew in the past were fellow people with autism, I have found it very easy to bond and connect with them because of that. I have met them by pure chance, it's kind of disheartening that there is no easy way to meet fellow people with autism.

Then there are the people you described who simply use you and take advantage of you for their own enjoyment. I have had a few run-ins with them in the past. People who act like they are your friends and try and make you give them money to 'lend' or do their homework because they are 'busy'. It's pretty harsh when you have no or very little friends and they are threatening you leave you if you do not do what they say. Later on I've become less naïve for this kind of talk but it was still utterly frustrating that there was nothing I could do back against them since they had pretty much free reign from the principal while I got detention for the most minor thing.

Worst case of being abused like this for me was when I fancied a girl and knew her for a few weeks. She acted really friendly and I finally had the courage to ask her out, she said yes. Fast forward to the weekend and then she called off a day before. Next day she posted photos online to a party she went and started mocking me. I asked her why she did that and she said "do you really think I would go out with you?". She and her friends ridiculed me for a while and then she just completely ignored me as if I did not exist. She was quite popular so eventually the whole class ignored me, most people simply looked strange at me when I asked something from them. I suffered from depression for months and lost a lot of weight. It's kind of sad that this kind of mental abuse is completely legal while it hurts much more than a punch in the face. My quality of life suffered heavily, my health suffered from months of depression induced malnutrition, it costed a lot of money to treat my depression and I lost a full year of education: all of which I had to pay for. And still the media perpetrates as if bullying is just 'normal' and something totally fine to do.

Then the rest is the majority of people who simply do not care, they probably ( unconsciously ) do not deem you worthy of their time and ignore you. Mostly they try to avoid you as if you have some contagious disease ( probably afraid of losing social status by being near you ), even giving weird looks or quickly trying to shove yo uoff if you speak to them. This doesn't surprise me in our society where narcissism gets glorified and rewarded, while being sincerely nice and friendly is seen as a weakness to be exploited.

qfox, what you are describing is psychopathic behaviors.
They treat you sub-human. You are not respected as another living being.

I don't think they even think of themselves as another living being. I think all they think they are is the identity that they have created for themselves, and they are obsessed with that.

They always see me as someone who is normal or 'typical' because my disabilities are often so invisible that you wouldn't know I have special needs just by judging me. I've had people tell me how I don't look or act autistic compared to ones who have it really badly. My parents both know I'm on the spectrum because they have to deal with me on a daily basis. Most people who don't see it often judge me as someone who's not as severe as she should be. This often makes it hard for me because my mind is that of a child. Everything I do or everything they do has to be done as if I were a child and not an adult.

However, most people, as I said before, don't see the disability and often comment on how I can speak or communicate normally compared to most people on the spectrum or whatever. I can't be treated like an adult because my mind set is that of a child, and it's very difficult for me to be more like an adult. For my parents, they aren't raising an adult, they are raising an adult who is still very much a child every single day.

That's really the only problem I have with NTs. However, I have a few NT friends and an NT boyfriend who have treated me the way I am meant to be treated though. They understand my actions and how I am not like an adult in anyway. I told one of my friends who is around fifteen or sixteen, that I'm more around her age range than I am being an adult. She understood that. Her and I have been best friends since then. Most NTs I do meet, such as at my anime convention understand that I'm not typical at all. It just depends on how me or my mom explain it to them.

qFox is spot on

Qfox nailed it. I tried having friends when I was a kid. No real luck, and I was constantly picked on. I finally decided not to bother any more, as it is less painful to be a hermit, so at a young age I became a peerless hermit. People are just too difficult to deal with on a constant basis. Besides, people who pick on others just because they are different, are not the kind of folk I want to spend time or energy on.

If you are having trouble with so-called peers, develop some solitary activities, to give you something to do when you are not trying to curry favor with the pests.

And remember, you don't need to rely on abusive peers for company. You are among friends here at WP. As a hermit, I don't need a lot of social contact. This site, along with occasional family contact, and occasionally talking to neighbors and others while out running errands, provides me with all the social contact I need. I also occasionally post comments at other sites of interest to me, but mostly here.

So don't be a "torment toy" for "peers." Learn to be psychologically self sufficient, and you will be happier for it.

I'm treated like a God by my peers, at work in the lunch room they all listen to my anecdotes with anticipation and when I was at college I was the leader of a group of students who we would stand up to the chavs with success and at lunch would ponder about high knowledge and they would lean on my every word 'sigh' a little stroll down memory lane.

Like sh*t. I just want to be left alone.