how NT sees Auties/Aspies?

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i saw a post earlier how auties/aspies view nts....

so i am curisous...how dose nt views auties/aspies...
in the way of how they act...

the other post was partially a poor-veiw of nts...
so let us have a common mutual understanding here...nothing sour or degrading...please....

Last edited by treeheart on 06 Sep 2008, 9:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It's degrading to lump them in together. Some of them get us. Some of them don't. Some of them tolerate us even though they don't understand. And some of them think we're sp****cs. What else do you want?

In fact, I hate saying 'them' like we're not alike, there's a lot of separatism on this board and I don't like it. NTs are different to you or me, but we're all human.

Hear, hear.

However, I understand that the OP wasn't trying to be offensive. Perhaps if she could provide more details on what information she's looking for? Are you concerned about how a particular behavior of yours might be perceived?

If you want an accurate answer to that question, ask someone that is not under the spectrum Someone with an open mind that is (which seems to be the exception, not the rule)

Last edited by lionesss on 06 Sep 2008, 9:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.

It's listed in your profile you are diagnosed with AS so how did people view you?

If you know the answer, that's the probably the answer to your question.

Look at the image of other disabilities. They aren't that much different then the one of us.

i am aspie....

but i was just trying to give the NT people on here a chance to talk...

and i was partially tired of hearing all about how mean and misunderstanding nts are...

i wanted to hear from the nts who know and care...

sorry for posting a honest question

I think the problem was that it wasn't clear that your question was addressed to NTs. It seemed like you were asking Aspies what NTs thought of them rather than asking NTs to respond. I'm sorry you feel like people jumped on you- I know you didn't mean to offend.

Maybe you could edit the original post to make your question clearer for future readers.

It would help if you say in your post you are asking the NTs so that aspies would have better understanding about your question.

As an NT I will gladly answer your question.

To be honest, outside of the general clinical information about how those with Aspergers are typically socially introverted with intense, focused interest, I have no "view" of people with AS. People with the condition are just as varied, in both interests and personality as anyone else, and I don't have any more of a preconceived view of those with AS than people as a whole.

I know how people see me:

Consistent on select few topics with a vast knowledge and narrow to open opinions. Seems like any other person but just more arrogant

People have described me as "smart", probably because of the huge amount of random facts I've collected. I was also told once that somebody felt threatened because they thought that I would use my "smartness" to make them look dumb. I was floored, needless to say... I had nothing against them; why would I want to make them look dumb?

So intelligence could be one way you're perceived, even if your abilities aren't extraordinary, because of formal speech, memorizing lots of little details, and the geek stereotype.

they consider autistic people ret*d. Thankfully some of them say that that isn't true and they can be very intelligent.

I remember some guy saying Aspergers is a fraud and they're normal people with low-normal intelligence who aren't social, etc....well soemthing similsr..

I've not told anyone about my diagnosis, as I'd rather they continue to think of me as merely "eccentric" rather than ret*d or insane.

Some NT's get it, and some don't; but I'd rather not take my chances. You should have seen the way some of my coworkers reacted when another coworker came out about being on Prozac - he may as well have claimed to have raped someone!

a friend once told me: "you are all the time what other people get high to try to be." i actually thought that was sort of cool.
i've also been told that talking to me was like talking to a child-the naivete, i finally figured out, after i got insulted too often by that and asked for an explanation. it's not an insult, i was told. they're apparently talking about the honesty, the trusting nature...we spell that gullible where i'm from, and since i've also been told i was paranoid this confuses me a bit. my guess is i get paranoid when i overexamine in an effort not to be too gullible.
a person in my high school told me a rock showed more emotion than i did, at least if you threw a rock hard enough it cracked a smile.
i was called "miss spock"...sometimes this seemed friendly, sometimes it didn't...i suppose it meant they saw me as analytical, unemotional, distant...?
yet i've also been told i overreact.
i get told all the time that i'm smart...and i suppose so, though a lot of it is just me picking up random facts like i'm a magnet and data bits are iron filings.
my creativity is mentioned...in writing and photography and art...but people also see me, and accurately, as inflexible and rigid at times.
i've been told i should be a lawyer because i see everything as an argument...this is inaccurate of course, as they are telling me how i see the world, which is something they are not privy to. and i don't...but obviously i give that impression.
i've been called an old soul.
i've been called immature.

there are probably as many views as there are viewers, and likely much depends on the tenor of the interaction.

some guy (well several lol) said something similar to me too XD