Do you hate how some people think Asperger makes you inferio

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I do. I consider it as discrimination.

I've never really thought about it.

I also hate that, as well. I'm different, not broken.

yes I hate it, and I'm doing my best to change it. In fact I hate every single negatife thought about Autism.

People with Autism aren't normal.
People with Autism aren't capable of having a normal life.
Autism is a disease spreading.
People with Autism are unhappy and need to be cured.
People with Autism are unable to raise a normal family.
And many more crazy stupid thoughts.

(I have honestly heard them all, but most of thm I have only heard or read once or twice.)

I do hate it when people look down on me or other people, and act like we can't do normal things, limit our choices of how to help them with tasks, or basicaly treat us inferior. Sometimes I think they are discriminating to.

I get that a lot at work. There's one girl who enjoys my stumbling over words, etc. I hate it. She tries to make it happen as often as possible, in front of as many people as possible, just so she can look like a hero.

One of my sons friends said yes she knows what it is "a mental disorder"
and I replied (diagnosed with aspergers) so I'm mental am I
and she replied no not you of course!!

Only by discussing and bringing the unknown into the open, can it become norm.

You seemed surprised that NT's view us as inferior. But why would they not considering the huge number of Aspies, some not even diagnosed, that speak only of the things they CANNOT do. They say they can't work. Or that they need their parents to take care of them. It is the whiny AS people you should be angry with because they are the ones the perpetuate the myth that Aspies are all losers. Instead of focusing on what we can't do we need to focus on what we can do and keep striving to do more.

For those of you wanting help keep in mind if you get an OT or a psych they will prod you along and make you work, make you achieve goals. This is what many Aspies need. But it is hard work.

It's not discrimination; it's the term in itself meaning an impairment as it is used by most of the world.
That some may consider it a gift and/or question it's "true meaning" is irrelevant.

In other words, it's a term that belongs to a certain paradigm that happens to be in vogue just as "witchcraft" once did too. Fighting to change the "true meaning" of Asperger is not seeing the forest for the trees as it's a term that belongs to a mindset and it's the mindset as a whole that should be questioned - without that mindset such a stereotype would not exist in the first place.

Its more ignorance then anything, human nature is to attack what is strage or not understandable.

Please, those that quote me, don't quote me if your comment is going to be unrelated because it makes it sound like our comments have something to do with each other and that we are like "arguing" or some such. . .