I see I'm still safe, I'm not on the list.
I think I do have a bit of a problem with the disablists (they don't have anything against me, they just want me in some facility, your tax dollars at work?).
Also, things like a job a career or a relationship and/or kids do not take autism or Asperger away, much as some people would like to believe. Even I have wanted most of those things, as if having them made me just like the blokes I graduated from college with. But matching my bloke mates on those criteria does not take Asperger away. It can't. There is always some deficit of social situational awareness and nonverbal communication.
And another thing, a lot of my bloke mates have credit card debt, some with too much. They can have that, I don't want any.
Timelord, that's not very funny, I am almost 40. Apology accepted in advance.
Unfortunately, sometimes people who lack in social skills come across as insensitive, self absorbed or simply annoying jerks. Also, due their vocabulary and style of speech, people can percieve them as pompous.
I think I sometimes come across as snobby, aloof or abrupt due to my lack of eye contact, avoidance of people and being unable to tell when it's my turn to speak. I can look back at a couple employees we had in the IT department that, in retrospect, may possibly have been on the spectrum. But I still didn't like them because they acted like grumpy arrogant arses.
if anybody comes up to you and tells you there is something weird or stupid about you or even calls you a bitch, does that mean it's true?
NO WAY!
it means they are limited in their own minds to look beyond behavior or looks.
if anybody hates you it tells you somethings about that person instead of thinking it is about you.
But maybe I really am a bitch 
But I find a good way to avoid a lot of this, for males at least, is to "walk with rhythm" because it implies confidence for some reason. Just walk with a "light sway."
I am reminded of the scene in the movie Stir Crazy where Richard Pryor tells Gene Wilder how to walk so that other prisoners won't pick on them. "We bad. That's right. We bad uh huh" 
I'm gonna break it to you bucko
It doesn't mean a thing
Unless you have that
ability to swing
Thomas Dolby, Ability to Swing, Aliens Ate My Buick
I've only felt descriminted against twice in the work place. (School was the usuall jock > nerd (me being this) relationship)
I used to work at a hospital making food trays for patients. Pretty good job, I liked it. Had a system I could follow once I got used to it which I did. However my supervisor would often take a shift before or after my shift. When she would go before me she would not put things into order or restock and make me do it. And when she had the shift after me on other days she would critisize me for not doing the work schedual fast enough. Couple that with a few insults to my character I quit the job out of spite. (after I tried going to her suprvisor, which these issues were not being resolved)
Another one I worked for a temp. employment agency. I got called in to do filework. I started out just moving files from one folder to a better folder. Then got moved to moving folders themselves armfuls at a time. I asked if I could switch places and got told something along the lines of "being weak and not being able to do a man's job". But someone volunteerd to take my place and I could go home since the filing for the day was going smoothly.
So I sign out for the day and leave. I get a call form my boss and she tells me I left without permission. I told her I got permission to leave early. She said The on site boss never gave me permission, I explained what I was told and took that as being able to leave early. (I think I was setup) And was told I was 'fired' from that temp. work by the on sight boss.
Both of these I never told my employers I had asperger's syndrome. Though the traits, I assume, led to both of these happening they way they did.
Havn't been to work since.
/endsobstory
Why would an employer hate Asperger traits? Preference for their own kind thing?
The battle is over, QD - I just won on a TKO.
In other words, I've said all I'm going to say to Wilky on this thread. She insulted me and continues to refuse to believe that she did and deserved what she got in retaliation. Hence the prime example.
Timelord, I have been trying to just rise above it all and ignore your comments. However, you just don't stop. I get so angry every time I get on this board and read your posts.
The manner in which you have treated Wilky is unbelievable! The comments you have made about her on this board, on Joekers blog, and on your own wiki page are extemely offensive. You still owe Wilky an apology. I doubt she will ever get one, but would you please stop with the "she got what she deserved." Have you ever been taught what it is to be a gentleman?
Did it ever occur to you that the reason you are not employable is that you offend everyone? Has it ever occured to you that maybe you should work on that? I believe that anyone who feels the need to have a list of enemies should probably rethink how they do things.
I hope that I never read "they got what they deserved" from you again. It is sad that you go through life so full of vengence.
so.. I take this as a NO, you won't stop?
Perhaps CJ it is possible to be damned if you treat women like cuddly chicks and damned if you insist on an intellectual equal. It is difficult for me to find an ntellectual equal, I have been blessed in my genes, and maybe 90% or 95% of a possible 100% blessed in upbringing.
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Some people seem like loaded weapons, if you drop them, they go off. They do not consider the motivation of a person, even when the person really deep down inside cares about them. It is too easy to think "he 'fits' into my sore spot of what it is like to be black in America, he is an enemy, regardless of the state of his mind I cannot read" It is the minority who is at war attitude.
Such thinking can cause major international problems. Stalin thought the West would invade him again after World War II, he grabbed the Warsaw Pact countries. I don't think France, Britain, USA wanted to fight any more after the war. North Korea thinks we're still at war with them, they build a bomb. Why the heck don't we recognize them.
It is always dangerous to shoot first. There were many times during the Cold War (and one after, the Norwegian weather rocket incident in 1995, the rocket looked like a Polaris missile in a US sub patrol zone, and it was initially headed toward Russia, Yeltsin had a chance to be the first head of state to open a football, but he waited before pushing the button, the missile turned away, and Yeltsin didn't) that if someone believed the other's intentions were hostile, we could have annihilated human civilization.
Maybe not ALL the times I thought were prejudice in my life were.
Let's try to lose the hair-trigger attitude. In 1998 it was a Census GS-13. Pomp did not make me a racist in 1998.
It does not make me a homophobe now.
As Doomsday: On the Brink re-enacted n 1997, Yeltsin was the first head of state to open the nuclear football, a laptop.
No one ever refers to someone as just a person anymore.
Then again, what the heck do I know, I am a fat, white trash, okie, pagan, witch, ugly, poor, woman..
wow, Korrigan. You sound like quite an... interesting.. person..
Actually, I was going to let this slide, but it's really getting to me, so I'm not going to bottle it up any more:
I'm really pissed off that I'm the one being accused of judging people, because I described the lunatic fringe Aspie Supremists as "nutters", while said Supremacists are allowed to spew forth all sorts of nonsense and if anyone calls them on it, they're the one that gets attacked.
Ethel, I didn't see it, I sure hope you weren't attacked - I thought I was following the thread closely.  MAybe you  misread and someone was agreeing with you and being sarcastic at the same time.  anyway, if you've no wish to re-hash the offender, I just wanted to say, you are most righteous in your indignation if you were in fact accused of being judgemental. I should say most certainly you aren't!
Ethel, you raise a great point. And it's not healthy to keep all stuff bottled up so I am glad you didn't let it slide-
  And I agree with the above.
er.. what's wrong with the word nutters? Would the word "idiots" be a better choice?
People will always fear what they do not understand, for what they do not understand, they cannot control...
People also fear what they understand, because understanding reveals that there actually is no such thing as control.
Do you actually know what an automobile is? Think about the thousands of pounds of screaming metal hurtling down barely-maintained roads, most of them operated by people who have had, at most, a few weeks' formal training and nearly none of whom have had any refresher training administered by experts. They operate these death machines while simultaneously eating, listening to music, having conversations on telephones, and putting on makeup. The vast majority of these roaring engines of destruction contain tanks full of explosives. People don't want to understand that.