S#!T Ignorant People Say To Autistics

[greiner3]

9. I don't touch people;

This does have many down sides as I find it very hard to initiate conversations and have trouble getting dates.

Even then I don't initiate the hugging 'process' until I know them quite well but if they make the slightest first move I'll reciprocate.

I HATE crowds and/or crowded places i.e. malls, carnivals, state fairs, busy sidewalks and will go out of my way to run errands during bad weather as there are so many fewer people.

I never thought of myself as being on the spectrum until Asperger's syndrome became popularized.

Growing up my so-called peers called me strange and different and have embraced these labels because I would have being the norm; vive la difference.

So I too at least can emphasize with the young woman but I appear pretty normal until I get to know the person and actually this makes a difference because there are so many people 'prejudiced' against the syndrome because of sensational news stories and movies and it takes a kind hearted person along with someone who can reason to take it to the next step, especially in a romantic way.