Autism you witnessed IRL - share your stories

[Marshal Mannerheim]

In my French class I sat next to a girl who was known as a politisperg. She was, and still is, the sort of person who gets her politics from TikTok and Instagram memes, and has always enjoyed pretending to be an ”activist” despite never doing any actual activism.

We were given an assignment where we had to write a French essay about our heroes to prepare us for the GCSE's. Most people just waffled about their family members or a film star. This girl chose to write a pretty lengthy paragraph about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

This would put you on the verge of lolcowdom in and of itself, but it got even funnier when we discovered that she didn't know how to spell AOC's name and didn't know what her policies were, so she just waffled about her ”iconic red lipstick” for the duration of this essay. She then chose to accompany the essay with a printout of AOC's face, with her lips painstakingly coloured in red biro.

Before you ask, she wasn't a sped but was just an incredibly rich white girl who follows politics because she thinks it makes her interesting.

 

[MysticMisty]

Crosspost, as per usual. This autistic guy was in my math class my first semester of college. You know how you can look at someone and instantly tell they're "different"? That was this guy. My suspicions were immediately confirmed when he sat down where I could see him; the very first thing he did was make a big production putting a toy in the top-right corner of his desk. Setting it down very dramatically before making sure it was facing the "right" direction before actually getting out his math supplies. Something he would go on to do every class until the end of the semester.

The best way I can describe this toy is that it looked like one of the rolling droids from the Star Wars prequel trilogy, only more polygonal and abstract. It also looked very, very cheap. We're talking Happy Meal toy cheap. You know the type of cheap toy where they couldn't afford a full double-sided cast of everything, so one side of the arms/legs/whatever is sculpted out, but the other side is only open internal supports? This toy had that going on.

After a few weeks, a girl who sat near him decided to be nice to the obvious retard (and presumably satisfy her own curiosity) and asked about the toy one day before class. While I did not hear him say what it was or where it was from, he did say something or other about how it originally belonged to a different family member (presumably a kid). Who then gave it to him "for safe keeping" (I don't know if they died or not), which translated into bringing it to every single class.

This however got him talking, and he'd started talking to her on his own. Poor girl. Among various other subjects, he talked about how Sonic the Hedgehog is a million times better than Super Mario and Sonic Unleashed (then new) is the absolute best game ever, and how he totally "gets" the Michael Bay Transformers movies (lol) and was, in fact, preparing to send a letter to his idol about how he "gets" his movies and his own ideas for Transformers. I have no idea if he ever sent his letter or not, but I think he worked on it before class a few times off and on. If he ever finished and sent it off, I never heard him talk about having done so, only that he was still working on it. It's entirely possible he didn't finish before the end of the semester.

There weren't any major incidents with this guy like the mainstream speds I shared classes with in elementary school. There was, unfortunately, one day when he came in when he very obviously had a cold. Aside from the fact that he couldn't blow his nose like a normal person (most people don't make the noises he made in his attempts to do so because they know how to do it properly), fucker was piling used tissues on his desk. It was so bad that the girl that sat by him actually got up and changed seats as far as possible from him to get away from that nastiness. The teacher couldn't even look in that general direction either, poor guy. At the end of class I held my breath and practically ran out of the room. And then washed my hands a few times before going home. Where I washed them a few more times and still felt dirty.

Also I have to say, I feel bad that somebody was wasting money for this guy to attempt college, because he didn't have nearly enough mental ability to pull it off. This was the lowest college-level math course my school offered, and he struggled to keep up with the class work. It was obvious he didn't understand what our teacher was teaching us. Even if someone was doing his homework for him (like Billybob's dad did), he still would've been failing the tests, which counted a lot more. And I can't imagine he was doing much better in any other class considering how long it was taking him to write a single letter to Michael Bay.

I just hope that not too much money was wasted pretending that this guy was "just like everyone else" and that he could definitely get even an Associate's Degree.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Spoiler: Super Autismo Bros.

There was a weird sperg kid i used to hang out a lot because our moms were friends and he was the only other kid in our grade outside my best friend and me who was interested in anime, videogames, and other stuff like that when we were in primary school. Me and my other friend were little spergs, yes, but we were also into sports and normie stuff and were not isolated from doing stuff with the other kids, so this nerdy dude was the odd one out that latched onto us and me and my other friend were constantly annoyed by him being way too autistic about everything and him not wanting to do anything else that wasn't spergy.

I don't need to describe it because his looks and personality were exactly like this character from the anime club, Its almost a 1:1 except this kid had brown skin.

he was conceited, played a lot of the coolest games but only complained about them and acted like everything was shit, he was always bragging about nerd cred and sperging about trivia we as kids could not care less about, he complained about other kids who were more social but everyone in our class was pretty nice to each other, i think he thought American movies with jocks and nerds were real life, he was a 9 yr old but already felt like a 20 yr old cynical neckbeard. Sometimes he would pull a Cartman move of inviting us over to his home but would not let us play his fucking games, he just wanted us to watch him play, like a socially stunted retard that he was.

Anyways, he had an older brother who was a mental case too, also a huge dork, we called him Luigi because he was the thinner taller version of his younger brother. It didn't seem that weird at the time but he was close to graduating highschool and still he would be hanging out with us kids. It was extremely lame and creepy in retrospect. He wasn't even like a cooler older kid we looked up to or anything , we actually made fun of him and teased him a lot and he would REEEE about it. He was always a nice guy though, much nicer than his faggot younger brother but there was obviously something fucked about him socially and he was mentally not well put together. His only other friend was a trench coat wearing metalhead and even that tard dropped him as a friend and was already ignoring him before they graduated out of embarrassment.

Anyways, i lost contact with anime club Mario kid, we were in different sections and i never liked him that much, his brother graduated and he was not around anymore but a few years later, when i was around 13 me an another new friend i made were getting into Mtg and when we went to the Games store after school there he was; Luigi, except he was not quite the same dude, he had a weird pubic hair beard, crazy eyes and even how he talked was all fucked up, like his mental state had been deteriorating for a long time and he was only half coherent, he stank like hell too, it took me a little to recognize him and he scared the shit out of me when he approached me. this young man looked disheveled

He got super excited and friendly when he saw me but it was just so awkward, you could barely understand what he said because he spoke like a cartoon character and he was so fucking loud and overexcited in this small store that this interaction was very embarrassing, he would suddenly make weird gestures and voice inflexions and try to be funny making pop culture references that didn't seem to make sense to the conversation. This guy was still hanging around kids despite being almost 20, in fact he was trading Yu Gi Oh cards with some 10 yr old when we first saw me. I wanted to get the fuck out of there, the friend my age, the one i went to the store with mocked me relentlessly afterwards because i knew this crazy freak and always brought it up and we had a laugh, when we left this dude was sitting down to play a game with another child and it looked like that video of Chris Chan playing Pokemon cards with some kid, this guy was an university student and this is how he spent his days.

I don't know whatever else happened to Luigi's life, he looked like he needed help, hope he got it and never raped any kids, last i saw from both was years later when i was sent a picture of his younger brother Mario by a friend ex classmate, he had lost a lot of weight but looked as retarded as ever and was in full Cloud costume in an anime convention, it was an hilariously bad cosplay and he was next to a hambeast which was allegedly his GF. At least he wasn't incel but holy shit, it was an hilarious picture, cursed picture thread material, apparently both him and his older brother took to cosplaying and singing karaoke in anime conventions, the videos were a huge meme among people in my former school, this was around 2004-2005, if it was a few years later that dude would have definitely become viral. I woudln't be surprised if he trooned out, he already looked like a gay pedo hobo and allegedly he cosplayed as girl characters too for those creepy karaoke performances but i never saw the evidence for that.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

I just hope that not too much money was wasted pretending that this guy was "just like everyone else" and that he could definitely get even an Associate's Degree.

Did you go to PVCC by any chance?

 

[MysticMisty]

Did you go to PVCC by any chance?

There were no Sonichu medals anywhere. Truthfully given his general Nintendo hateboner I really doubt he played Pokémon.

 

[Jan Ciągwa]

Bruh, what the fuck is it with autism and swords?

Dude, I was fucking mental about Rage of Mages 2 in kindergarten/primary school. Way more cool than guns.

TBH I have little idea why.

 

[heavycream]

She's ignoring him at first, but quickly starts telling him he needs to stop. All the while he's grinning that "I'm a playa" kind of grin and saying his asinine lines. Finally she loses her shit, screams "FUCK OFF! I DON'T KNOW YOU! YOU NEED TO LEAVE ME ALONE!" puts her basket of stuff on the ground and walks out of the store.

I think there must be a common thread with autistic people freaking out at being confronted with strangers.
This girl who goes to high school with one of my cousins is a high functioning autistic that constantly flirts with practically every male student she lays eyes on. And when I say 'flirts', I mean she parrots the kind of stereotypically flirtatious dialogue that some female cartoon character would say. Not anything actually alluring, especially when coupled with her greasy skin, hair and constant mouth breathing. She would do this even to boys that bullied her, failing to understand that they only talked to her to take the piss out of her in front of their friends. However, I happened to encounter her while going for a walk by the park recently. She was cycling a few yards ahead of me with her father leading in the distance. Another guy was on the side of the path by a lake having just caught a fish and called out to her if she'd be willing to take a photo of him on his iphone, and she, without even looking, smiling or apologising just straight up blurted "No, I don't know you, bye.". Needless to say, I stopped to help the guy out with his photo shortly after.

Edit: I have several more stories, as I too went to a public school that was very welcoming to kids with all sorts of disabilities. Almost all of the disabled children, even those whose primary impairment was to do with mobility or hearing, whatever, were also somewhere on the spectrum.

Violent autist ruins parties, destroys family, then troons out:

Spoiler

One person I recall really vividly was one of my friends' younger sister; Jane. She was 4.5 years my junior and like her brother, Jane was a high achiever at first, placed in all the top sets for English, Maths and Sciences etc but started to spiral down over the subsequent years. Nonetheless, Jane was close with my sister. Consequentially, my own friend group ended up mingling with hers regularly.

When Jane was 12, my sister invited her over to our house Halloween party, and likewise I also invited my friends too. While they fucked about in another room we watched a horror movie and drank a bit. Later, the younger group wanted to go trick-or-treating and I got left responsible to escort them around the town. Suddenly, as we're passing a cul-de-sac mostly populated by retired folks, Jane starts screeching loudly about how she wasn't allowed to drink despite my friends and I drinking, and that she's done 'really serious drugs' before and the rest of us are pussies. This is obviously just lies and bravado but she had a tendency to constantly play hard and act as though she had all these horrific worldy experiences to impress her friends. Her brother confirmed to me that all of these claims were lies. Normally an 'uh huh' is enough to get her to shut up, this time, however, she just wouldn't stop. Even my sister and her friends were getting uncomfortable. Especially when she started saying that she thought it would be fun to smash up peoples' cars in their driveway as a 'trick' to 'frighten them'. I'm not even kidding. When I tell her that I'd prefer if she stopped or we'll have to go back, she wound up going on a tangent about how GG Allin was her idol and that she has no qualms or regrets about doing awful shit because he did. Several other parents who were taking their younger children out were staring in awe this entire time. We bring them home and besides Jane miming that she would slit her friends throat with the knife she was using to carve a pumpkin, there were no other issues that night. My sister never invited her over again.

Things get worse. I hear from her brother some months later that she has started setting fires in the house and was sectioned. It's taking a tole on his own mental health too. I get the impression that his mother's also a nutjob and she puts a lot of responsibility on him. When Jane returns to school she now claims to be a trans man 'Jake'. The obsession with punk rock, Sex Pistols, GG Allin only gets worse from there on out. She literally would use protractors or drawing compasses to carve prison tattoos into herself. Kept going on about doing drugs and idolising how all those rockstars died from stupid shit like STDs or ODs. Unfortunately, because i'm the 'music geek' in my year and was giving guitar lessons after school, I got lumped with her then too as she kept going on about wanting to start a band and, after i turned down the invitation, she insisted I teach her bass guitar. I lent her my bass to practice on, which was a mistake, because she fucking destroyed it days later, all sorts of scratches, dings and a broken string. She had this weird obsession with me too for a time because I played and wrote music. Thankfully though, she eventually got bored because being a musician requires actual effort, even the modicum of effort to play shitty punk rock was too great for her.

A year goes by without hearing about Jane, and my friend/her brother basically forbade us from talking about her since it stressed him the fuck out. But next I hear, she's been put in some group home because she tried to recreate some murder suicide that one of her punk idols was involved in. I forget the specifics, but it involved nearly stabbing her mother. That's not the reason she gave though, because when she was allowed to come visit her friends at school (and insisted seeing me) she said her family were just 'transphobic'. She also bragged about how she was high on lorazepam (ativan) from the hospital and may or may not pass out on us, as well as eagerly telling us stories of how deranged all the other kids she was lumped in with were.

I never saw her again, but she still posts on Facebook, constantly bitching about life's woes. She's now a grade-a munchie and claims to have PCOS, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and chronic fatigue, all the typically feigned illnesses and lives in a group home with a carer. Her mother and brother are fucked up too in their own ways, and father is just a push over manchild. I had to eventually cut contact with her brother too for a time because his constant misery became really insufferable.

 

[Haint]

Experienced in literal tard wrangling. Friends little brother that lived across the street. Always standing in the yard, yelling at neighbors and passing cars. Being the only neighbor willing and able to corral the young autist back into his house, Id have too act fast before the police got called, which was often. His family was weird AF, I remember they were some kind of mountain christojew god botherers.

 

[milk]

When I was spending time in a Western country, I found the local fighting game community to spend my free time with. Everyone was fairly normal except one or two people. One time I was playing a game I've never played before and beat the hell out of this guy since fighting game skills are transferrable between games for the most part. Whilst I was playing, I was asking how to do some basic things like, throws and basic mechanics stuff because the buttons/systems can be different between games (e.g. throws are often either a 2 button press or forward plus heavy button). After I beat the guy up despite never playing the game before, he got really angry and threw his arcade stick across the room. I didn't quite understand why he should get so mad, but later on someone told me it was because that guy was training real hard at the game. So then I understood that me asking all these basic questions whilst playing the game, must've really made him feel like rubbish, since from his point of view he lost to some random person who doesn't know what he is doing. As time went on, we got to know each other a little better, one time I made a joke in public because of his strange behavior "what are you autistic?", then he responds with "ugh actually I have Asperger's". This whole time I just thought he was a little strange, but then it makes a lot of sense to me. Unfortunately he will never be good a fighting games because it requires you to be able to sense the emotions and behavior of your opponent, something autistic people have trouble with. I went back home to Japan for a while, then came back for a visit and he was trooning out and full on SJW. He always had strange attention seeking behavior, so I was not surprised at all.

 

[KittyGremlin]

Back in my middle school there was this tard and during PE he would sneak back into the dressing room to masturbate. We could easily tell by his smell afterwards.

 

[NerdShamer]

Unfortunately he will never be good a fighting games because it requires you to be able to sense the emotions and behavior of your opponent

At least this explains the various "rules" that the pros invent for Smash.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

Back in my middle school there was this tard and during PE he would sneak back into the dressing room to masturbate. We could easily tell by his smell afterwards.

what fag. should have done it in the girls lockerroom.

 

[heavycream]

This poor cashier I had to watch deal with two tards that didn't have a wrangler with them last night.

Waiting in line behind these two women with a cartful of groceries. They'd only put two or three items on the belt at once, wait to be scanned and charged before repeating the process. One of them kept flailing her arms and the other one kept squeakung a sort of "uhhh uhhh uhh!" sound and pointing at certain items shaking her head. The cashier thought she wanted the items voided out and did so, both women started doing their retarded jumping jack arm thing and making the sound.

The cashier said she didn't understand what they wanted, and was already getting annoyed having to only ring up two or three items at a time instead if the entire cart. One retard was able to say "paper" and point randomly. The cashier said "oh, are you deaf? I'm so sorry, here" and got a notepad and pen for them.

Retard #1 flung the notepad off the counter, made the "uhhhh uhhhh" noise, grabbed the cashier's hand and directed it towards her fucking cash register receipt paper and started digging out her wallet.

The cashier said "you want my receipt tape?" to which they both vigorously replied "yuh huh huh huh" Now clearly exasperated, the cashier said "you're not having my receipt tape" to which they started rolling their heads and going "ouyyyy oyyyyyy" finally the cashier calls the manager and lets him deal with the retards.

I could have moved to a different line but I didn't want to miss the show.

How do people like that even manage to get to the store alone, considering both seemed equally disabled?

 

[Broseph]

I was friends with this kid named Keenan way back in elementary school who I'm pretty sure was an undiagnosed sperg when I think back to it. Most of the time he acted pretty normal but there were a few times when he did something extremely autistic, and I'm not talking about typical little kid derpery.

One of the most autistic things he ever did was when I went over to his house to play some 1080 Snowboarding on N64 when that had just came out since he got it for his birthday, and he threw a little hissy fit because I wanted to play the game with "his character", and by that I mean a character that he had already designated as his main character every time he played the game. So I selected another character and he said "No that's Dan's character", to which I selected the next character and he quipped "No that's Brandon's character", so I rotated to the next one and he said "No that's Chad's character". Since the game only had like 5 or 6 characters this left me with the girl character as the only option to which I didn't want to play as because I was in the 4th grade so cut me some slack, and my "friend" didn't want me playing as "his/his brother's characters" even tho his fucking brothers weren't even playing the game with us so why did that even matter? Finally his mom who had been in the room with us just told me to pick whatever character I wanted and Keenan threw a fucking tantrum over that.

Another instance was way back when the Spawn movie was coming out, and since Spawn was basically the first R-rated superhero movie it was a pretty big deal at the time. Well one day out of the blue Keenan just called me up and told me that his dad was taking him and his brother to see the movie (I have to question his dad's parenting skills on why he thought it was a good idea to take a 9 year old to an R-rated movie) and I assumed that he was inviting me to go to the movies with him, which is what a normal person would do, but instead this little fucking autist just wanted to tell me that he was going to the movie and how excited he was about it...

On a side note, this kid and all of his brothers did this weird thing where they all called their dad by his real name "Ken", instead of calling him Dad, for some autistic reason. His dad also looked exactly like Ned Flanders

 

[soft breathing]

A weird memory from school just came back to me for unexplainable reasons. And it only now hits me how weird and wrong this thing was. It might not be exactly autistic per se but..

At one school I was at, it was normal procedure that the kids had to be outside of the school building during lunch break. To catch some air. It didn't matter if you were ill, if it was raining, storming, 45 centigrade summer, or minus 20 centigrade winter - you had to be outside.

So some students started to try and hide in the school's toilets, just to stay a little warm or dry. And our teachers were patrolling the school toilets like fucking watchdogs. Looking under the stall doors if someone was there and if they saw feet (or more, fuck if I know how much they sometimes saw, since I remember having eye-contact with one teacher while I was pissing) but not "peeing noises", they announced that "I DON'T HEAR ANYTHING, YOU ARE NOT PEEING, GET OUT NOW OR FACE DETENTION".

In hindsight it just strikes me as extremely weird and uncomfortable that something like this is/was even allowed.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

There was this one day while I was in high school where, after a conference in one of my extracurricular clubs, we stopped off at a pizza place for dinner.

Outside, there was this nerdy looking dude twirling a baton outside. Why was he there? No one knows.

Then, some of the girls that were on the trip went over to him and started lightly teasing him, saying stuff like, "Woo woo! Alright! That's so cool!"

Then the autist opened his mouth and yelled at the top of his lungs, "COME TO THE DARK SIDE, WE'VE GOT COOKIES!" while grinning like an idiot.

The girls turned around, all looking creeped out, and went back to their booth. The dude just walked off, still twirling the baton.

 

[NerdShamer]

A weird memory from school just came back to me for unexplainable reasons. And it only now hits me how weird and wrong this thing was. It might not be exactly autistic per se but..

At one school I was at, it was normal procedure that the kids had to be outside of the school building during lunch break. To catch some air. It didn't matter if you were ill, if it was raining, storming, 45 centigrade summer, or minus 20 centigrade winter - you had to be outside.

So some students started to try and hide in the school's toilets, just to stay a little warm or dry. And our teachers were patrolling the school toilets like fucking watchdogs. Looking under the stall doors if someone was there and if they saw feet (or more, fuck if I know how much they sometimes saw, since I remember having eye-contact with one teacher while I was pissing) but not "peeing noises", they announced that "I DON'T HEAR ANYTHING, YOU ARE NOT PEEING, GET OUT NOW OR FACE DETENTION".

In hindsight it just strikes me as extremely weird and uncomfortable that something like this is/was even allowed.

Some school policies were written by an control freak. I would bring up a few examples from colleges, but those were Christian-oriented, so that's cheating.

 

[soft breathing]

Some school policies were written by an control freak. I would bring up a few examples from colleges, but those were Christian-oriented, so that's cheating.

I mean, if you have some minutes to spare - I'd be interested what a Christian-oriented school is like and how bad the rules can get.

Edit: English grammar is hard.

 

[NerdShamer]

I mean, if you have some minutes to spare - I'd be interesting what a Christian-oriented school is like and how bad the rules can get.

As an rule of thumb, alcohol, smoking, extramarital sex, and premarital sex is prohibited under threat of getting expelled or fined.

Liberty University had a ban on R-Rated content but they're still against smoking and drinking. And apparently, they got rid of debate club because it wasn't a safe place for one's mental health.

Pensacola Christian College is the one that separates the boys from the girls, monitors their internet usage, banned astrology, requires chaperones for mixed-gender outings, and actually assigns someone to follow the delinquent around after forcing him to move to a different dorm.

And Bob Jones University does most of the above, but raises the stakes by having a ban on going to movie theaters and you need a counselor to watch a PG movie. And they have a ban on any type of music that doesn't praises the Bible.

But every now and then we get an lolsuit because of the fundies, so it all balances out, in the end.

 

[Marshal Mannerheim]

I mean, if you have some minutes to spare - I'd be interested what a Christian-oriented school is like and how bad the rules can get.

Edit: English grammar is hard.

Christian schools in America, from what I've heard, tend to enforce a Christian moral code on their students.

When it comes to fundies, that can get interesting.

And apparently, they got rid of debate club because it wasn't a safe place for one's mental health.

Are you sure you aren't thinking about Evergreen College?

Pensacola Christian College is the one that... banned astrology

I've had to deal with plenty of crazy bitches who are obsessed with horoscopes in my time so I can definitely understand that.