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By kggggg - 12/08/2010 11:00 - United States

Today, while at my friend's house, I noticed her brother had a bit of an accent. I laughingly said "Is it me or does your little brother have an accent?" She stared and replied with "No, he has autism." FML

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By dammit hearing aid - 10/07/2014 22:17 - United States - Wallingford

Today, I was interviewing a woman for a job. She told me that she may need days off because of her artistic son. I jokingly replied, "Does he color on the walls or something?" She then stared at me with a weird look on her face. Autistic, her son is autistic. FML

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By ChessNut - 27/11/2018 12:00

Today, a girl I'd been crushing on for a little while and I were talking about autism. Some of the last words she said were "I try to not find autistic people so fucking annoying, but I can't help it. But can you blame me?” I'm autistic. FML

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By Anonymous - 15/06/2020 08:09

Today, my boyfriend came over to meet my family. When I told him I had an autistic brother before he came in, he immediately broke up with me because he claimed autism is another word for overprotective. I've been dating an idiot. FML

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By apparently_disabled - 17/04/2015 06:24 - Canada - Victoria

Today, I was trying to make a good impression with my fiancé's friends. After a few hours, I thought all was going well. As I walked to the washroom, I heard, "So what disability does she have? No one can be like that without something wrong in their brain." FML

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By Rmglrsm - 23/06/2016 02:21

Today, at work, I was helping someone who really sounded like she had a Boston accent. So, I asked her where she was from. She has never been out of state. Turns out she has a speech impediment. FML

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By notautistic - 26/09/2014 01:15 - United States - Minneapolis

Today, marks yet again another day that I've been asked if I'm autistic. No, that's just my Korean accent. Apparently I look "too white" to have one. FML

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By Badatlife - 23/06/2014 16:19 - Australia - Kellyville

Today, a guy at work pulled me aside to tell me that I probably shouldn't be working a job where I have to interact with customers, because of my autism. I don't have autism. FML

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By Anonymous - 01/10/2022 21:30

Today, my therapist mentioned we should look into the possibility of me being autistic. When telling my boyfriend what she'd said, he replied, “I don’t think you’re autistic, just damaged.” FML

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By Anonymous - 26/11/2013 13:07 - United States

Today, I went to pick up my little brother from his friend's house. When I got there, he ran off screaming that he didn't know me. His friend's parents believed him. FML

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By anonymus - 18/08/2009 16:33 - United States

Today, I asked a woman where her beautiful accent was from. The woman stared at me for a while. Then her daughter told me that the reason her mother talked like that was because she had a stroke a few months ago. FML

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Thursday 12 August 2010 19:19

Everyone has an accent.

callmecourtney 3

Thursday 12 August 2010 19:32

Alright, op, let me be the sympathetic one: if an "accent" is all you noticed, chances are that her brother is a high-functioning autistic. Autism varies from person to person. My step-mother works in SPED and gets a lot of autistic students in her classes. Some are high-functioning - I wouldn't have known there was anything different about them right away. Others have autism so severe that they can't make eye-contact or speak. My own step-brother is autistic and falls somewhere between the two. You did nothing offensive, you just felt a little humble afterward. That being said; My little brother and I were born and raised in Texas and he has a Boston accent.

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Scoutman 5

Thursday 12 August 2010 22:49

he does have an accent. an autistic accent. duh

roflinyourwaffle 0

Thursday 12 August 2010 22:53

you, sir, are absolutely retarded.

NaniisBadxP 0

Thursday 12 August 2010 23:25

fail smh i have a cousin with autism

omega802 0

Thursday 12 August 2010 23:35

I'm retarded..... what's autism?

TheIrishJaneDoe 8

Friday 13 August 2010 4:45

It's the technical term for people who can't use Google unassisted.

randomman5 0

Friday 13 August 2010 7:16

You know, I'm autistic, and that comment was pretty damn offensive. Autistic people are not like that, and there are varying degrees. I, personally, have Aspergers Syndrome, which is a light form of Autism, but there ARE some people who can't function SOCIALLY. Autistic people aren't retarded or mentally challenged, we just don't function well when dealing with other people. A lot of very intelligent people are autistic. Do some friggin' research, you imbecile.

TheIrishJaneDoe 8

Sunday 15 August 2010 2:41

If this^^ was for me, please check your PMs. I meant no offense.

L0velyy_9 0

Thursday 12 August 2010 23:47

Well, i bet you felt good about yourself...

Smokering 0

Friday 13 August 2010 0:00

Ehh, I don't think you did anything particularly rude. My husband and I are both slightly Aspergic and have the typical Aspie voice - prosody, unless we're concentrating, and a vaguely English accent. I get accused of being English all the time - just the other day I ran into an old acquaintance from Uni who was surprised to see me, because she thought I'd have "gone back to England after I graduated". Oookay. Wanna know what's rude? One of my lecturers, who commented that dating DH must be "like dating your brother" because we were both so similar and "had affected voices". She didn't know about the Asperger's, but yikes, that was rude. I also had an acquaintance as a kid who learned one of my sisters was autistic. When she met her, the girl kept staring at my sister and saying sotto voce "Oh yeah, I can see now! She does look autistic! Her eyes are so wide-set...." I can only assume she was thinking of Down Syndrome (which my sister does not have, nor does she look like she does). So yeah... either of those things would have been rude and/or ignorant. Asking about his accent? Perfectly innocent. Don't feel bad.

fylkman 0

Friday 13 August 2010 1:02

justsayfuck u failed u tried 2 correct me and u urself got corrected

justsayfuck 5

Friday 13 August 2010 1:32

And thereby, I didn't even try to correct you (God no, where to start?! :o) but I was just making a comment about people not being able to type legibly.