"You must have cheated!"

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Ok I draw regularly, sketching has been my biggest special interest in over 10 months. so I was drawing this picture at a bookstore:




Someone watched me and said: "well you should try such and such shape" I am a very visual learner so the person sjetched the face shape with the lines and such. I saw it, thought I GOT IT! and drew this:



Then the person was like WTF? You must have already known how to do it! You cheated!"

I know autistics have the ability to display talent in certain areas or be really good at something. I have never felt I fit that particular criteria. But I am really proud of how my art is going. Why would I pretend not to know what I was doing? Some people really vex me. Is this sort of idea NORMAL? Do people underachieve normally to deceive? Is that an NT thing or a "that one crazy person" thing?

No idea.

Sounds like s/he was impressed though XD.

Play something on the piano after hearing it once ...

"You must've cheated!"

Beat someone at their favorite game on the first try ...

"You must've cheated!"

Ace an exam that most other scored a "C" on ...

"You must've cheated!"

Bring flowers to your girlfriend just because you love her ...

"You must've cheated!"

I've been accused of tracing -_-;
And once for a class I was accused of plagiarism because "it was too intelligent." (the teacher's words!) So what, did I come off as being dumb?

I was kicked out from my drawing class in junior high because they teacher was sure that it was not possible to suck that much if you really tried. I don't to any degree have any visual cognitive style what so ever. It does matter when drawing....

some people have difficulty accepting the talents of others. It makes them feel insecure about their own abilities.

The same thing happened in 6th Grade Social Studies. I wrote a 100 page report about Viking society and gender roles in relation to other prominent cultures. According to the teacher (who later recanted), the manner in which the paper was written and organized was "too advanced for [me]." Either he meant to say that a 6th grader shouldn't possess an expansive vocabulary (I tend to reserve it for appropriate occasions like issuing insults, assignments (when I was in school) and anything else that requires it), and therefore I must have cheated, or that a goth (read: rivethead - I like industrial; there's a difference) kid cannot possess anything but subpar intellect. The latter seems most plausible given the fact that he hated my selection of attire.

In reference to the OP, people often accuse others of cheating/lying when they witness an individual partaking in a specific activity that (for some reason) others, especially those in a similar group as that individual shouldn't be adept at. For example, a six-year-old is exceptional at golf and the child's parents decide to show off his talent by uploading a video of him playing golf. Instantly, the Internet would be inundated with the overly banal "FAKE!" or "This is so 'shopped" comments, simply because they refuse to be mentally receptive to the possibility that a young child could be better than an adult at the sport of golf.

I don't understand how you could "cheat" at drawing when you are sitting right in front of the person? Did they think you were a precog and saw the interaction days before and practiced ahead of time??!?!?!?!?

At one point I wanted to be an art major and I took a class. The teacher told me I drew "wrong." WTH is that supposed to mean?

Some people are just stupid.

I could draw & enjoyed it in Grade & High School. But I never could draw a straight line, so it always seemed weird to people. I have been accused of cheating in a few things, but not art. ( I do trace every now & then, but not in projects).

Sincerely,
Matthew

You went to a bookstore to draw sketches but reserved your true capabilities until after given advice by a someone else, just to show them up? That's some pretty convoluted logic to be accused of.

Anyway, I was very artistic as a kid. I took every art class my high school offered (and it had a very expansive art program). I later went to school for graphic design. (There's no money in that, so I was forced to pursue computer-related talents.) Although I mostly stick to abstract art and photography, I did learn to draw people fairly well and can give you some advice if you like.

Bizarre behavior.

I don't have eidetic memory, but I still freak people out with my ability to remember events or facts.

I've had teachers acuse me of handing in my moms art, til they see me do it in person then its okay from then on. People are funny when they get outshined.

I like to draw (or rather sketch) and even though others tell me I'm good, I only consider myself mediocre at best. Still, I have been accused of "cheating" until they see me attempt to trace something (and fail miserably). I also got accused of cheating at academics when I was younger. Once I missed an entire week of school due to illness, during said week they went over some core material for an upcoming test. I was the only student missing that week (small school), and the only one to Ace the test. So, of course, that meant I was a cheater. -.-

Even though this wasn't aimed at me, drawing (anatomically correct) people (as in, not anime/cartoon-ish) and animals is something I have yet to "grasp". If you wouldn't mind sending some advice my way, I wouldn't mind taking it.

OP, Do you think the person was seriously accusing you of cheating? If someone said something like that to me, I'd assume they were really impressed and just trying to be funny. Maybe their sense of humour didn't hit the mark.

Sounds like me. I'm only now beginning to realize why girls didn't want to go out with me. I would say something like "you said XYZ on April 21, 2008 at 5pm. I'm sure they must think I'm some creepy stalker but I just have an exceptionally good long term memory.