I haven’t met many autistic people, but I’ve met some individuals that are challenged or experience difficulties in social situations. Other people would even treat them differently.

These individuals I speak of are fully capable of what you were saying, if given the opportunity. They take advantage of little things too.

I suppose the only thing I’m saying here is, I believe the op. There’s no reason to assume anyone is so innocent.

 

I think a lot of it is rooted is poor parenting and/or the way the psychology community treats autism.
I've often seen 2 kinds of parents of autistic children:
1. the kind that coddle their children, treat them with constant kid gloves, make them feel so delicate or even like a special snowflake who is better than others because they're different. or
2. the kind of parent with a woe is me attitude that make it all about themselves.

I think the psychiatric industry is often to blame with it's, "Oh just take a pill and it will help with the symptoms" attitude. The thing about autism that it requires a great deal of training to teach a child how to behave in ways that are socially acceptable, because it's not really obvious.

There are a lot of unspoken social rules because social norms are arbitrary. People do particular things simply because other people do them, not because they make sense. I can understand the struggles of anyone non neurotypical who struggle to follow social norms. However, when someone is like "I'm autistic, therefore I get a free pass," attitude, it just makes it harder for those who are sincerely struggling, because now neurotypicals might think, "oh they're just making excuses."

 

There's apparently a group of internet trolls claiming to be autistic for fun or to get close to others who do actually have autism and subtly convince them how inferior they should feel about themselves.

Autistic people are "decent people" at the same rate as the rest of society, if not more so, since they never have the privilege of everything they need handed to them on a plate.

People really should know what they're talking about before commenting on it.

 

There's apparently a group of internet trolls claiming to be autistic for fun or to get close to others who do actually have autism and subtly convince them how inferior they should feel about themselves.

Autistic people are "decent people" at the same rate as the rest of society, if not more so, since they never have the privilege of everything they need handed to them on a plate.

People really should know what they're talking about before commenting on it.

I’ve seen people proudly implying being autistic makes them better than neurotypicals, smarter or more likely to be geniuses. Like it or not, this happens a lot on the internet, and it is annoying.

Of course, I have no idea if the people I have mentioned are “real” autists or not. Who am I to know? All I know is that my experience with self-identified Aspergers people on the internet has been very unpleasant.

 

Yeah a lot of fake "autistics" too. That really boils my blood!

 

Just simply sharing my experience here, this is all. I have no issues with autistic/Aspergers people. My ex told me he had Aspergers and he was a straight up asshole to me and I didn't find out until later on that it was just a lie, he said that just so he could abuse me and control me. If people are doing this and treating people like this and excusing it, I think it's awful. Nobody should be treated that way. Just saying. If you are an asshole, own up to it, stead of giving excuses to why you are behaving like the way you are. I'm an honest person and if I know I'm being an asshole, I will say that I was acting like one. People tend to make excuses a lot of time and see how far they go and see with what they can get away with.

 

I have to say I get annoyed at the "on the spectrum" comments. My dad has Asperger's and it was a huge deal growing up, and is better now that we all adjusted to it and he got counseling, and is in no way as huge as it would have been if he had severe Autism, but when you hear what people think "on the spectrum" or something like that means vs. what the experience of a parent or family member with it (and not understanding really what having it means or looks like), it is pretty ridiculous.

On the same hand, I am dyslexic, and it takes a lot of effort to overcome that in day to day (I'm in the medical profession so even getting through school and then ingraining it into myself to double and triple check names and numbers and equations at every step for patient safety was a huge deal). When ever I am checking out of a supermarket and someone does something wrong and needs an override or types a number in error, they are inevitably like, "Sorry - I'm dyslexic" or "Dyslexic moment". No, thanks, you are just an idiot.

Not gonna say anything to these people, and everyone is welcome to their own lived experiences, but also, f*ck off a little bit.

 

The way evilness works is around what if can do AND get away with it. The second part will include any lie at all from autism, to having been raped as a kid, to being diagnosed with cancer, and so on. Basically anything that JUSTIFIES socially.

An example of psychopathy could be this.
Peter's Interrogation Proves Too Much For Distinction Student | Dragons’ Den

 

That’s rather ironic, considering Autism is characterised by theIr lack of awareness in regards to their effect on others. An Autistic person wouldn’t realise they were and arse!

 

^ yeah true. Being a complete jerk to people, being aware of it, but not caring is more a trait of anti-social personality disorder rather than autism/asperger's

 

being AWARE of it is the key factor.

Youre really flipping aceing this psychology stuff arent you. Well done.