How do all you other aspies make it througn life?

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anbuend
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19 May 2005, 1:07 am

danlo wrote:

The best way I have found for getting rid of the Gay label, is by working with it, not against it. I've made it into a long running joke, by playing my part of the label and pretending to crack onto the person calling me the name. Such name calling is a form of ostracision and bullying, and it always stops when it doesn't have the intended effect.

I'm gay, and my non-autistic brother is straight. But he wore makeup and odd clothing and people thought he was gay because of stereotyping. He had a perfect way of dealing with it (if you can pull it off and the situation is safe -- being NT probably helped his judgement) : Some guys were apparently bugging him about being "gay". So he blew them a kiss.

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19 May 2005, 1:16 am

Prometheus wrote:

It helps to "play along" sometimes, so if some one says "You're gay", just reply "You're looking for someone?" and that can really freak someone out, esp. when they are a real macho idiot.