Do/have people treat(ed) you like an animal or a machine?

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Sometimes immediately, and other times upon hearing of my diagnosis, people have decided that I'm a primitive animal who understands social stuff but only at the most basic basic level, and isn't necessarily bright to make up for it, that I'm just lacking, that's all.


Others decide that I'm an emotionless machine, good only as a useful tool, so they treat me as one. They assume that I lack ALL social skills and emotion, and decide when they see that I'm not so good at "machine stuff" after all, that I'm jsut a stupid machine, but still bad at social stuff and still emotionless... they don't deciode, "Hmmm, maybe she's less technical and more social after all."


Have any of these happened to you?

Not so much a machine, because i have an ill temper when i dont understand something, or am not understood... More like a child. Some people treat me like a child. I hate that more than almost anything. I dont mind doing things for people as long as they ask nicely, but dont just come out of the blue and get in my face about anything or tell me i cant do something.

A lot of people dont understand that we are still human beings and want to be treated with respect. Sometimes i have trouble understanding people's emotions and i wonder why on earth they use those stupid headgames. Why cant people be more up front about things? I still have problems reading my husband after six years and he's an aspie. I do understand being treated like an animal, i guess. I still flinch when i see people get angry, or assume they are angry. It is kind of like an animal instinct.

I have had people tell me that I seem more like an animal than a person...I have been compared to a monkey or a rabbit or a squirrel or a mouse....or a non-specific "little forest creature"

But it usually seemed to be in a flattering or friendly joking context.