Do NTs Perceive You as Intellectually Disabled?

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Throughout my life, I've been labeled a plethora of insults. The one I despise the most is people thinking I have an intellectual disability. I have Dyspraxia and my hands shake often. I also have a difficult time enunciating certain sounds and performing basic motor functions. Due to this tragic flaw, people treat me as though I'm lacking in the cognitive department. Occasionally, it takes me a few moments to process what was said to me. Is every NT this ignorant. If I took a shot Everytime people have spoken to me like I was braindead, I'd be long gone.

yes, im having the same problem, through out my life people have litteraly spoken to me as if i was a dog or a special creature, both by kids and adults. And that, being spooken too like a far inferior, is the most acceptance i've acvieved in my life. I must say it autism, is surely a curse for me, it's both affecting my psyke deeply disturbing me, and my neurological system inflicting physical pain, and having poor control over my body.

I have moderate autism that looks more severe and dyspraixa. So there's the autism posturing and stimming plus the cerebral palsy like motor function problem that also affects my ability to speak. So I get talked to that way, when talking to me like an ordinary person is preferred. Aspies have done this to me as well so it's not just an NT thing. Not that it doesn't bother me, but I have to chalk it up as just being human nature.

Many people during my earlier life saw me as being intelligent, but couldn't figure out why I got poor grades and had poor peer relations at school. But the psychiatrist who diagnosed me with Asperger's in 2001 thought at first that I was "mildly mentally ret*d". She later decided I couldn't be because I was "too smart".

Now that they know my diagnosis? All the time. I'm officially funny in the head; they're not. Therefore, they have authority over me about anything, because they can always invoke common sense, which is necessarily on their side. Even when they contradict one another, or their earlier selves.

Give people a way to subjugate you and they will.

I’ve never actually thought way about women. I used to envious of the girls in my English classes. They were intelligent to me; a few of them seemed like prodigies.

My parents treated me like I was a social misfit more than like I was intellectually disabled. I was called ret*d by kids.....but I never thought they saw me as intellectually disabled.

It was more that I was “socially ret*d.”

No.

Quite the contrary - I've been told that I'm a smart young man.

It’s just not as simple as that....

Not "every NT" acts like that

But many do

Misconception

Sometimes yeah in the times I was foolish enough to reveal having an asd.