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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Quest_ 13
Everyone has an accent.
callmecourtney 3
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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Comments (205)
bamfanf 0
thats hella funny hahahahahahaha
ughfuck1234 0
How so?
hisiena123 0
my little cousin has autism
awesome_shai20 0
i have Asperger's syndrome which is an autism spectrum disorder people cant tell that i have it unless i tell them please stop ripping on OP it was an honest mistake
shinrawr 0
honest mistake
Xaviexis 6
Yeah. There are people with severe enough autism that it's fairly obvious they have a disability but most people on the autistic spectrum are mild enough that you'd probably only be able to tell if you really knew a lot about autism (like, more than average).
phatway12 13
Awkward....
epicness1234 0
Sorry but what is autism
HarroIAmBob 21
youre an idiot...
doglover100 29
Oops. Awkward
judea95 16
Being autistic doesn't give you an accent
AssassinBug 15
Do not worry, when I first saw Breaking Bad, I thought "Walt Jr. sounds retarded". Then it hit me, that guy is played by RJ Mitte. RJ Mitte has cerebral palsy. Some people have stupid moments, that was mine.