I dont even know how to deal with someone like this

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Someone actually claimed to understand autism and autistic like behavior better then me, a person with aspergers. Then after being told I have it, thus have indeed had to deals with autistic behavior my entire life, still he said he understood them better. What makes him say he is so qualified you might ask. Because he is a prison guard

I hate dealing with ignorance on that level. I mean, its just annoying to an unimaginable degree

He can't back down because that would mean your penis is larger than his.

Once, I didn't even tell someone I had Aspergers (i repeatedly admit to not being diagnosed)...All I said was that I identify with people who have Aspergers and have alot of symptoms etc....
She laughed in my face and said there was no way that I had aspergers and that I should not be so set on applying lables to myself...and the reason she was qualified to say that was because she is schitzophrenic and had worked with people in the mental health industry (on a vollunteer basis..she is not a shrink)
It was very hurtful.

Well, a person, that many consider a genius, once said:

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

His name? Albert EINSTEIN!

who was probably autistic I might add

Don't let it get to you, there's worse things to worry about.

Oh geez I used to know someone like that.

She had volunteered in various places too, and had a mound of psych labels (she found it really fun to say that she had at least one thing from each section of the DSM). She thought that meant she was complete expert on everything. Also nobody could have worse problems than her, or even the same problems as her, without her throwing a major snit fit and lashing out at people.

When my parents were figuring out my brother and me were autistic, she said it wasn't true and that I was... I think she vacillated between that I had multiple personalities and that I was schizophrenic (the first of which she'd encouraged me to exhibit signs of for a long time), and my brother was schizoid. (Then she listed off a number of my brother's autistic traits as proof that he was schizoid.) She also diagnosed my mother with alcoholism because she "caught" my mother throwing up at night (my mother has severe bronchitis and frequently coughs until she vomits). And then sometimes she would say I was autistic and sometimes she would say I wasn't.

Then when she found out someone we knew had actual multiple personalities, she said there was no way he did (because she supposedly had it and could therefore judge these things). Then she started accusing another person of illegal activity he didn't actually commit (took him to court, and lost). All of these things she could judge in an instant, supposedly. (She also claimed to be able to read people's minds.) She's also lied to people I know about how well she knows me (she said she lived with me for a long time and had tons of time to watch me -- I checked with my family in case my memory was being incredibly screwy, and she never lived with me for a day of my life).

What scares me the most though is that she's now got a license. And I've talked to other people who know people who are like this, they diagnose people at the drop of a hat before they have a license to practice, and then they get the license to justify diagnosing people at the drop of a hat. It's scary that people do that.

...sounds like a sociopath

I had a goddamn NT do this to me. He had read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and sincerely believed himself an expert.

Honestly I was considering going up to him later and saying "Thank-you, thank you for reminding me of why I think of NTs as close minded idiots"

Not saying all are, but this guy certainly isn't helping my outlook

By the way, even though I told him I had it, and had written documentation of having it, he still said I didn't. In fact replied with, I believe it was, "yea and you probably have written documentation of being an @sshole too"

This is the best answer ever.

Seriously though, when people get it into their head that they're the best at something, they become religious about it (in terms that no amount of proof can make them think otherwise). Plus, that seems to be a characteristic of many people with autism/Asperger's....you need to be autistic enough or their type of autistic for you to "really" be autistic. It's just a pissing contest, that's all.

I stopped arguing with people long ago. I don't care what they think or if I'm misunderstood and I am way too tired of dealing with ignorant people especially over trivial things.

I work with a guy who thought he knew about Aspergers- that's because a friend of his supposedly has it. Listening to descriptions of his friend, though... Nutjob is more applicable.
Do people with Aspergers like to burn trees down or vandalise property? Psuedo-diagnosis irritate me. That's what happens when diagnosis are passed of to psychiatrists (if you concentrate really, really hard - Autism magically disappears kind of people) instead of neuropsychologists (If your brain is like A, you think like A - if it's like B, you think B).
Damnable head-shrinks.

See m response to labpets frustrated topic for some evidence to suggest he WAS autistic.

What I find preoccupying is the implied message that aspies are not uncommon in jail.

well its not so much that I cared, its just annoying. Like the ret*d kid calling you stupid. You know its not true, no one with half a brain would think it. Still annoying


*I'd like to appologize to the mentally handicapped, as I know comparing you to this guy is an insult to your intellegence.