Aspies For Freedom

Some ignorant kid whose Dad happened to be a neurosurgeon once told me that her Dad had said that if I had Aspergers Syndrome I would be crippled!!!!! I told her what cra* that was and she didnt believe me!
          Also someone once said to me that it wouldnt be rude to deliberatly hurt the feelings of someone you didnt like!
       Another person once told me that only people with nice hair got nits. That person was very vain and considerably stupid.

and rightly so!
the dumbest comment i have had is sheep-boys etc because a member of my unit was obssesed with sheep (we didn't like him much)
and the idiots outside thought it was funny to shout that through the windows B*******

A classmate looking at my wrist, "Did you cut your veins?!"
Me, covering the laceration with a sleeve like I didn't want him too see it, "Ahh... yes."
"Shouldn't you do it a bit lower?" (Should I? )
"I missed."
Then I realized he really was thinking I was probably training before trying to commit a suicide. Then I looked at the cut - it was S-shaped and done by my cat...
...


"You are never smiling. You are always wearing black. And boots. You are a devil-worshipper. *** you." (one of my favourites even though I don't look like this anymore)

"Your shoelaces are in two different colours!" (O RLY?)

"Haha. Oh, Paula. You make me sprawl." (A classmate keeps telling me this when I react in a way that she considers odd. At least I think it's the reason. She's quite... odd.)

The same girl asked me on a beginning of IT lesson while we were still waiting for the teacher to come - I visited this forum and suddenly I found her staring at my computer's screen:
"AFF? What is AFF?"
"It's... similar to HRR."
"HRR? What is HRR?"
"Oh, you know. Cockchafers make a 'hrrrr' sound."
"Ohh! Haha!", and she returned to her screen (wise decision).

My one neuro-typical cousin was driving my mother, sister, grandmother, and I to a family reunion. Along the way we passed a sore called, "The House of China". My mother wondered what they sold there. I said "maybe china". My cousin said "they can't sell china. It's a Communist country". At first I thought that we was trying to be funny. When he didn't laugh, I told him that I meant glassware. He said "oh, that china." Amazingly he's a colledge student, and I'm not.

He meant that you can not own land in China. Eventhough I know that you are right. Many private, even foreign, buisnesses exist in red China. He didn't realise that however, eventhough he has a bachelor's degree. My mother guessed that they sold chinese made goods, before I gave my opinion.

Yeah, I know a few dumb things that have been said to me:

For example, my chemistry teacher had just explained something difficult and I understood it completely, yet he asked:
"You look confused. I'll explain it again to you."
Me: "No, it's okay. I get it."
He: "No need to be embarrassed. *he explains it again* Do you get it now?"
Me: "Yeah, I get it."
He: "See! Next time just ask."

I also hate the question: "Did you cut your hair?" I used to think that people were asking me whether I cut it myself, so I always replied: "No, I let someone else do it."

*While I was reciting a lot of facts about one of my interest*
Boy: "Why do you do that? Why do you know stuff like that?"
Me: "I want to."
Boy: "Normal people don't do that. You must be crazy!"
Me: ...
*Boy proceeds to tell half the class that I must be crazy*

And THAT is NOT a crazy thing to like to do... o_o

Well, he thought it was quite funny and when he told the rest of them, they laughed. I don't know, I think it's a stupid thing to do and I don't understand why he did it.

Silence, probably this has made him feel that he was better than you.
I agree it's a stupid thing to do -- why doesn't he learn something interesting instead of underpinning his self-esteem with laughing at other people. Well, whatever. My mom keeps telling me that I'll never be able to change the world, like I had an ambition like this (I mean, if I was eternal then maybe it would be possible for me to do this... but I'm not!)
Going a bit OT, I suppose...

You're probably right, even though it isn't a nice thought. Usually my classmates are quite nice, as long as I try to fit in and don't do stuff they consider abnormal. But sometimes I can't help it.
It would be nice to change the world just a bit, wouldn't it? To create a little more acceptance. I don't think I can change the world either, but I hope I can at least make a (positive) difference in the lifes of a few people.

Exactly. And the worst thing you could do in this situation would be to sacrifice who you are just to fit in the group.
I know it was written so many times already... But I had to type it myself anyway since I find it really hard to get used to this thought and accept myself. Probably I'm going to repeat myself a few times in near future too Forgive me!

Of course you can! I believe that too and can already see some effects of my actions towards enlightening people about what they (at most times) already knew but didn't (want to) understand.
Quite scary to do that sometimes, I've got to say.

Oh my... Okay... I don'tknow and don't want to know if this was a vicious comment or a serious question. "

I didn't realize we had so many 'devil-worshippers' here

A few days ago, I saw bags labeled ' to make ice cube balls '.

I hate ....

What are you reading?..............a book?

Why are you reading that?...........Because I want to.

It's getting dark early..........it does every year.

Why do you listen to that music.....because I like it.

I sometimes get ones regarding my clothing.

"Why are you wearing paperclips round your neck?"

"Why are you wearing a necklace with zips on?"

Normally I just say 'why not', or 'because I like wearing paperclips' and they seem to take that.

Whoever had the girlfriend who called them 'childlike'- you picked a really wrong one there. She can't see beyond 'normal' and she called YOU childike??!!

Nobody can, really.

I have NT friends who start a conversation by telling me (who's standing next to them) that it's cold. I do as well, sometimes.

I don't mind because it usually gets a conversation going.