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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I finally got the results of months of extensive psychological testing to determine why I did so well in my course but performed so terribly on the job. Turns out I'm autistic. FML
Today, my whole office is treating me like a pariah because I rejected the new guy who has autism. I have a history of being domestically abused so why should I date a guy who, by his own admission, loses his temper easily and attacks people? That’s right, I shouldn’t. FML
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
Today, as always, I wore a pin at work with the rainbow infinity symbol to indicate that I'm autistic. A creepy male customer came in and, thinking it was a gay pride pin, started hitting on me and making inappropriate comments. He just wouldn't stop, no matter how much I tried to explain. The police were called. FML
Today, I got told I am not a good fit for a company because I'm disabled. But that's OK, I can volunteer for the same role, as I don't really need to work anyway, because I'm disabled apparently. FML
Today, I tried to explain autism to my classmates. One of them, a professional cunt who's always looking for an excuse to lecture people, accused me of being "ableist" because my explanations weren't accurate, and said I shouldn't explain things I don't understand. I'm actually autistic. FML
Today, I had to deal with a lady who claimed her son was autistic to try and skip the queue. Even her son was saying he’s not autistic, and she was screaming in his face that yes he was. I happen to be genuinely autistic. Security threw her out, and I was jealous that I didn’t get to do it. FML
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
Today, I asked if my psychiatrist would test me for autism, as I believe I may have it. His response? "You probably don't. Stay off social media once in a while." Well fuck me for wanting a professional opinion I guess. FML
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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stuner56 22
People need to think before they speak...
Meggston 17
That is NOT something you just assume about people. I'm sorry. :(
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lina21 12
I had a coworker who used to throw crap like that around. He was just a jerk OP, and socially, he had more problems than any of the rest of us. He just put everyone else down to hide his own deficits. That's probably what's going on here
jrn 14
There's nothing wrong with having autism
DarkStorm2Bad 14
I'm Autistic and work with the public all the time. My customers reckon I'm one of the nicest, most polite staff members where I work. Sounds like this guy may have seen some Autistic people who hate interaction or were one step away from a meltdown or something, and then decided to tar us all with the same brush. What a fool.
fairylights85 13
You should have just said "I don't have autism" and then watched him squirm.
Omniprism 15
What a dick. Don't listen to that asshole.
mercedesm 28
You clearly got hired on with no problems. If your boss was the least bit worried, they would have said something. You, unfortunately, work with pricks who do not know their place.
sarahtolkien 8
also, that's illegal. Had he heard of the American Disabilities Act?
momogal 22
OP is in Australia. Not sure if they have something similar to the ADA.
mikelangele 15
And who the hell told that son of a bitch that people with autism shouldn't interact with customers?! Apart from assuming someone has something they don't, flash news people with autism can get on even better with people simply because we don't know how to hate and all the bullying we've been through. Case in point assuming we're not good with people. Not only do I have my own advertising company and teach my own people how to sell and take care of our customers which definitely involves interaction with people and customers but I know plenty of people including my two best friends who are two of the best teachers around and I can definitely say as one of them actually taught me!
wolfheartmoon 12
Part of "working well with people", is being able to read facial expressions and understand tone of voice, things autistic people tend to not be able to to do. So no, "not knowing how to hate" (which MANY autistic people are fully able to), does nothing. In my group of friends at school there were two autistic people, and they very much failed with tone of voice, they'd take EVERYTHING literally.
sk8ter23 5
There are some real asses in this world
InTheMagic 3
How rude people like that who annoy me