"How creepy? Like Asperger's Creepy?"

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Without conscious thought? Really?

Yeah I think so. It's just that easy for them to decode body language. They don't have to think about it.

For me, the scariest NTs are the ones who define themselves with the word "normal". "Why don't you do this like "normal people" [ie. ME]" for example.

Self righteous I believe is the term.

I keep seeing this topic, and I keep getting provoked by the "Asperger's creepy" line--especially in the context of it being creepier than the the creepiness being exhibited by the subject of the discussion.

I don't know what I would do, in the same circumstances. I work in an environment with a zero-tolerance approach to harassment and issues that create hostile workplace environments. I sit on our department's diversity committee (and intend to put neurodiversity on the table!). So I think I would be relatively free from this.

Out in public, I would find it *very* difficult to confront this sort of thing. (sigh)

If i heard something like that i'm pretty sure that i would have jumped into the conversation, regardless of who the people were, and said "what do you mean by "asperger's creepy"?" or something. That's the kind of thing where if i hear someone say something about it, i just HAVE to butt into the conversation without bothering to think it through. Of course, if it weren't for me butting into conversation i wouldn't even "socialize" nearly as much as i do, heh.

No, I don't randomly just bring it up to people, but as I've mentioned here before, most of my co-workers know...and often times I even mention it jokingly. Hell, my bosses know...and no, they're not gonna can me; they can't...they need me.

I also tell people I'm very close to, but that's about it.

Otherwise I mostly keep to myself. I'm a major target, and pretty much the ultimate target, but hey..whatever. That's life.

Do I really care to let others know that I'm Autistic? Would it really, honestly do any good?

sure..I plan to mention it years down the line when I'm a very successful businessman; but I want my career to precede me beforehand.

Yeah, I don't need "understanding"; the human race doesn't "understand"...it just learns to tolerate.

One of the main points of most humanity is one-upmanship.

As the Nostalgia Critic once even sang "my c*ck's bigger than your c*ck, my c*ck's twice the size that yours is...."

It starts in childhood. I didn't have to really think about this until my daughter got to fairytale age. Then it struck me in a way that it never did when I was at the fairtytale appreciation age myself. In standard fairytales- whether you go to Disney adaptions or back to the originals- good is also goodlooking and mean on the inside is ugly on the outside. Think of Cinderella and the ugly stepsisters or Snow White and what a drop dead (hehe) beauty she is. The exceptions work to prove the rule. When a prince is enchanted into (temporary) ugliness (Beauty and the Beast, Princess and the Frog) so that a princess learns to appreciate his inner being, he reverts to his true handsome self at the end of the story. And she of course is uniformly hot. It's as though it's impossible for a good person to be anything other than goodlooking unless a witch puts a spell on them. It happens outside of fairytales too. Good people are goodlooking. Bad people are ugly. This is pounded into childrens' heads via stories.

Another NT basher... Only about 98% of them are like that. Try to find someone in the other 2%. Even most ASers I've met suck. It's just that the overwhelming majority of people in general suck.



Fair enough, most people I've encountered are like that.

I've never been called creepy to my face. I get the feeling some people think I am, though. But maybe I'm misreading them, I'm horrible at reading people.

I probably wouldn't say anything, but if I was holding in a fart, and the lady who coined the term 'asperger's creepy' was near then I would not feel like it would be a high priority to hold it in.

I look down a lot and people don't read me accurately. People find me creepy. I get made fun of about this a lot. I stare at attractive women.

Usually it is men, not women, who are called creepy.

This is the kind of thing that can really drive an Aspie crazy. My advice is to not think about it, forget about it and focus on other, more important things. Do not sit there and think what could this mean ? is this some sort of innuendo a covert dig at me? That can really drive you crazy, make you paranoid, zap your confidence and drive, maybe even lead to a depression. Best to just forget she said it that is, if it doesn't comes up again, unless you want to create your own headache.
Whatever you do, don't analyze it too much and reach false conclusions about
"what could it mean".


Who knows what she meant? It's irrelevant anyway. What matters most is remaining confident and not getting rattled over this kind of comment. There's always going to be some knucklehead who has to insult something they know about you in a subtle, insensitive way, when you are around, so you don't know what, exactly, they are talking about. That's why you should dismiss this kind of thing as petty. If they do it over and over and it becomes more blatant, you can say something to them about it.

A 15 time violent belt whipping would've put that b**ch in place

Don't say anything.

Normal is what everyone else is and you are not

Thinking that everyone is unlike you is not normal.

1. everyone is unlike me..unless I have clones
2. You missed the point entirley/

There is a common denominator. To think that you have no common denominator with anyone is illogical and very, very likely untrue. Healthy people can identify with others to some extent.