Why the stereotypes constantly ?

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You see tv show someone has aspie or autism they portal them as as one of the following:
Rain man
Jumping up and down flapping hands foam at mouth
Counting rituals
A mentally ret*d person
Narcissism individual
Obsessed individual
lonely individual
Person with a annoying one tone flat voice that repeats words in every sentence
Doesn't speak
In a care home with no faculties or respect
Someone staring at flashing lights and getting excited and then upset when someone takes The lights away *classic example*.
The list goes on::::::::

In society the same people seem to want to put people like this away in homes and wish they didn't exist sort of brush them under the carpet so to speak without making it to obvious.If you try and be a "normal" person get a job get a life etc your several punished if you have this disorder or at least it seems.

People discriminate and you can tell they are not happy if someone walks up to them and talks to them with one tone flat voice,repeating words,dribbling mouth or a obsessed counting rainman.

Then when you rage/rant and describe anything like this to anyone they think your crazy and dismiss you as one of them(aspie,autistic) for ranting in the first place.

Because they have to exaggerate them so people know they're different. People are less likely to pick up on subtle quirks as they would someone who has more severe symptoms.
It annoys me too but it's just the way people know that a character has autism.
I believe Rain Man showed people another side of autism they never knew before, if they didn't have any family member with autism.

Also, you've got to keep in mind some people with autism have those traits.

Cause lots of people with aspergers have managed to integrate themselves with society rather well, so theres no reason to necessarily point it out. Observant people can deal with people with aspergers very well and with respect. Its the feeble minded ones that have difficulty with us.

Stereotypes are how we organize the world. Without them we could build no coherent strategies for dealing with people. The problem is that too many people rigidly adhere to their stereotypes, or worse elevate their stereotypes to absolute truth.

It does make me wonder if part of the difficulty in socializing among aspies is that we don't so easily construct useful stereotypes.

Yes I agree it is a common practice for the media to exaggerate certain details to get a point accross. The majority of the target audience are NTs, most of them are still quite ignorant about AS, so it has to be exaggerated. Surface thinkers just wouldn't pick up on a subtle more accurate representation. Most of the material is written by NTs with next to no knowledge of AS who randomly pick a bunch of traits from the net and write a script.

This does create an exaggerated and distorted public image and sterotype. This is quite unfortunate for those of us with AS in the real world, as public perceptions of us are based on these stereotypes. This affects us a lot on so many varried levels. We really need some true and accurate public awareness to help counter the myths and misconceptions.

I'd love to be the main character of a movie about an obsessed person, because that's the only stereotype in the list that I can relate to. The rest of the stereotypes are a big crock, in my eyes.

I would like to play a character in a film who has Asperger's so I could show the world how it really is.

Then again I would probably be too boring...