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    I have Asperger's Syndrome. It's an the autistic spectrum on the higher functioning end. Among other things, I cannot bring myself to make eye contact with ANYONE, not even my own reflection. I also fidgit (out of sight from others), rubbing dead skin out of my palms when I am being 'social' like situations at work. I have managed a way to 'fake it until I make it' type of thing for work where I act out Lexi (my dancer persona) like my life depends on it and it works pretty good.

    The other night, I had a customer accuse me of being sneaky and a liar when I wouldn't look at him. I got stressed because in an attempt to prove him wrong, I made eye contact with him. So I begin to fidgit and my eyes drop to his chin. In an attempt to get him to stop his berating me (at the time, the 'get up and walk away' response was just not clicking), I mentioned that I have Aspergers, hoping it would click with him that I'm not being deceitful.

    "So you're just mildly retarded then? Explains a lot!"

    I got really upset and excused myself. I had his ass thrown out for harassing me, but I just couldn't function the rest of the night, and spent the night at the bar, just not doing anything but drinking Sierra Mist.

    Fuck you, asshole. Go pick up a book. Read the news. Autism != Mental retardation.

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    aww strawberry im sorry, what a douchebag! I have a nephew with aspergers so Im familiar with it. I hope that guy gets all the bad karma he deserves.

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    Wow...what a complete JERK !!! Guys like him should just keep their ignorant mouths shut.

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    I too have aspergers. It's awful, and it's my one thing keeping me scared from getting a job as a dancer.

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    How terrible of him to say that to you. That is so sad that someone can be so ignorant as that. There are many different ways that people function with Autism especially Aspergers.

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    you don't have asperger's as most asperger's sufferers understand it. even having a persona to make use of is not asperger's as most sufferers understand it. which leaves me a bit confused about the nature of your claim.

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    Quote Originally Posted by miabella View Post
    you don't have asperger's as most asperger's sufferers understand it. even having a persona to make use of is not asperger's as most sufferers understand it. which leaves me a bit confused about the nature of your claim.
    ^ you're illogical

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    Quote Originally Posted by StrawberrySwitchblade View Post

    "So you're just mildly retarded then? Explains a lot!"
    I would have kicked his ass. Seriously. My brother has asperger's and holy sh*t is he smart. At least in the sense of math and science. But when it comes to logical stuff? He can never be wrong. Accuses my parents of everything being their fault when they've done nothing but help him, spit in my father's face once because he thought he was calling him a liar, slapped me because of a disagreeance, hates my parents because they've put him in the hospital and on meds, I could go on and on. I'm really sorry for the threadjack strawberryswithblade, but ignorant people just set me off

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    People can be such assholes, I've found its best not to give them an opening to hurt you if you dont have to. Aspergers turns into "retarded" or Depression turns into "crazy," EVERYBODY has something that can be turned around on them. From now on just dont tell them anything, especially at work theres no need to hand out personal details.

    Shy will do just fine as an excuse. Sorry this happened!

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    God, what an asshole. My sister's high functioning autistic.

    I'm really sorry that happened, although you did the right thing if that's any comfort.
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    I just read up on Asbergers and the symptoms are correct. I am so sorry this happened to you honey. People are often naive and ignorant, and have no qualms about trying to behave civilly in that environment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by miabella View Post
    you don't have asperger's as most asperger's sufferers understand it. even having a persona to make use of is not asperger's as most sufferers understand it. which leaves me a bit confused about the nature of your claim.


    "the nature of your claim" eh...

    First off, your post has hardly anything to do with the post. Second, you have no idea wtf you're talking about.

    Again, I'm sorry this happened strawberry.
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    Sorry that happened to you. I'm not trying to be an asshat or disclaim you. How do you put on your makeup if you can't look at yourself? Just curious. I give you mad props for dancing with that.

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    "Autism != Mental retardation"
    That looks like programmers talk to me (sorry just spent the last week in uni til 10 trying to get a C program done)
    And if you are indeed a programmer then thats proof right there that you certainly are nowhere near mentally retarded!
    Good on you for going out there and doing your job and not letting Aspergers hold you back. Your probably 10x more intelligent than that custie will ever be .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gypsy74 View Post
    ^ you're illogical
    we all are.

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    no, just you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gypsy74 View Post
    no, just you.
    that's an illogical statement...

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    anyway, re: my posts in this thread-- i have no problem apologising to the OP. i'm in a lot of pain tonight from unexpected menorrhagia, but that's still no reason to randomly take it out on someone equally randomly posting to the internets.

    my bad.

    carry on with the mcrantydom.

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    Ah man, that guy was totally out of line. But being with a partner with Aspergers, it's SO DIFFICULT to deal with someone who has it. I try hard. He tries hard. But sometimes it just doesn't work. It's like ill-fitting puzzle pieces Squish them together all ya want, but they ain't never fittin'. Sometimes I get frustrated and say things I dont mean... but that guy went WAY over what you should say.

    Next time you should say, "OH! I see you have Tourettes!!"


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    Quote Originally Posted by miabella View Post
    you don't have asperger's as most asperger's sufferers understand it. even having a persona to make use of is not asperger's as most sufferers understand it. which leaves me a bit confused about the nature of your claim.
    you are flat out wrong. i know 3 people with this condition, and all three know they have it. get your facts straight.

    and Strawberry, the guy was a douche. "congratulations, you're the douchebag of the night! and fyi, my disease /= retardation of any kind. in fact, when you look it up, you'll learn that most of us are geniuses."

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    ^ She didn't say that people with it didn't understand they had it, she said they didn't have it the way most people with it understand they have it. She was referring to the symptoms.


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    Bleh what a fuckstick! I have a friend who has mild aspergers and its hard for him to things such a social functions and stuff. I never knew for the longest time why he sometimes responded to things as he did until he told me and I looked it up online. It can be a pain in the ass to deal with in your own day to day without assholes like that sounding off like a total moron! Fuck him, GO YOU!

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    I don't know anything about Aspergers so I don't know if this will help you at all but I hope so.

    I read somewhere once that if you have trouble looking people in the eye (it was due to shyness I think in this case) you can concentrate on their mouth as you are talking with them. They will think you are making eye contact but really you aren't.

    Again I don't know if it is the "eyes" you have a problem with or just focusing on their face when talking makes you uncomfortable. But it might be worth a try.

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    I'm so sorry, hon. My hubby has Aspergers, and to be honest, I thought he was a little shifty when I met him for exactly the same reason! But I would never have thought to accuse him of anything in the absence of facts. Nor would I have behaved so abominably if he told me about the autism.

    People are often cruel and stupid. You're to be congratulated for working through a difficult condition. Unfortunately, that guy's just an asshole; I don't think there's a diagnosis for that.

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    Sorry about what happened to you. I personally enjoyed working with Asperger kids and autistic kids at my old job. All of the kids with Asperger's syndrome are very bright.

    I heard Bill Gates has Asperger's, but I have no idea if it's confirmed.

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