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GRRRR!

everyone says i like math and dont feel emotion because i have AS.

Im sick of the stereotype... we arent clones, we are people.

has anyone else be stereotyped before for having AS?

i have VERY mild AS, and most people mistake me for a NT.

everyone at school knows because the teacher ANNOUNCED it to the whole class today. Everyone says im emotioless, i like train timetables, and math. (I H8 math)

Thanks to this stereotype, having read typical descriptions of AS for the first time, I chased away my suspitions I could have it for the next three years - I treated them seriously, believing that EVERYBODY having it is a counterpart of Data from TNG in human body - otherwise ASers wouldn't be described this way.

I actually epitomize this stereotype xD so it doesn't give me problems. But I feel your pain.

I'm often overly emotional (thus the frequent suicidal depression) and also hate math. Those stereotypes come from clinicians who don't understand AS because they're NT and don't perceive the world the way we do. They think we're emotionless because we don't display the facial expressions NTs associate with emotion and we don't high-five everybody around us or join in their pity parties.

If your peers are trying to judge you by the descriptions they've read in a book or online, just tell them not to believe everything they read. If the description wasn't written by an Aspie, it's probably not very accurate.

All the damn time Grrr...

Im married so i get " oh your married, but you have autism?" <---yea so what does that have to do with me being married??
I get "oh,like rainman?" <----Uhh no, im not rain man wish I was as smart as rain man though
What about " Look at me when I talk to you!" <----I dont want to look at you and I shouldnt have to look at you..to make you know im listening

my favorite "oh because of your autism you wont be able to do....." <----WTF who are you to telll me I cant do something because of my autism? Are you me? Do you know how i feel or what im thinking??


I can relate to what your going through..it sucks....and that wasnt cool that the teacher took it upon themselfs to tell the whole class about your autism! I would be pissed off too!

I get the Rainman thing all the time too. :S because I have an unusual knack for numbers. Anyways, it gets annoying when people walk up to me at random and say things like "what's the 40th digit of pi?" and things like that. Usually the questions are pretty easy, but tedious and bothersome; I'd much rather be left alone.

and I agree; it was HORRIBLE of your teacher to announce your personal affliction to the class. That should never have to happen to anyone.

I'm sorry *hugs*

My clinical psychologist totally stereotyped me in a letter do my school where she said "As a person with Asperger's, Alex lacks imagination and has no theory of mind". I have never gotten over how insulted I felt by that letter. What made it worse is that she'd known me for several months, seeing her on a weekly basis, so she should have known me better than that

Jeez, that goes beyond stereotyping into libel and psychological abuse. No imagination, my @ss. That actually sounds like she had some lazy assistant copy an article out of a textbook into a form letter.

yeah the AS stereotypes are a load of crud tbh, i just tell people that i have mild behavioural problems *shrugs*

Not sure which kind of AS(D) I have, I think it's mild and severe, people say it's one or the other.

But I also regularly get the comments stereotypes thrown at me.

That I don't fit them so 'can't be autistic, obviously' because 'autistic people never do that'.

I also get the other comment. That I 'should not/can not/would not do something because I have autism.'

Being told both I feel is still confusing.

stereo type nt,s

They do that on their own quite well! They are always sterotyping themselfs and others so i think they got the award for sterotyping

OK, and WHAT was one of your first avatars here!?!?!? DATA! (True, but you know I'm kidding! )

Hi All;

I am not at all offended by the stereotypes, but then they fit me quite well, specificly "Spock" and to a lesser degree "Rainman". It's not that I don't have emotions, and in fact I was an overly sensitive child, but rather, perhaps due to the absolute brutality of middle school, I developed the habit of surpressing them. This makes me seem very hard and cold, when in fact I am not. Truth be told, I am an emotional whimp, but showing that tends to lead to getting beat up.

Regards,

I was always a person following the path of logic but my "knowledge" of AS then, taken from said simplified descriptions pushed me towards belief ASers are an embodiment of pure logic, completely unable to decipher others' facial gestures nor hidden meanings I always liked Data but as a human being he would be undeniably unusual person and it's how I always imagined aspies