First run-ins with autism? - When did the curse first enter your life? :autism:

I think this is actually asperger's but I went to summer camp with the child of one of my parent's colleagues. Every. Single. Year. the boy would get up and recite another ~200 digits of pi and then play the piano as fast as he could. The counselors made him stop reciting pi the year he got to 800. Tbh it made me jealous because all I ever did in my spare time was draw horses and trace over deviantart pictures of animus.

Also, I think one of my friend's friends has autism but actually she might be super boring. She's extremely plain looking, has a flat voice, and she's extremely interested in Victorian funeral practices, especially embalming. I had to sit next to her at my friend's wedding and she just kept talking and talking about Victorian embalming which sounds cool as I'm typing it but it was hell.
 
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I didn't first hear the term or know anything about it (at least the low functioning ones anyways) until I read it in a book when I was around 11 or so? But it wasn't until a few years later when I realized all the kids who had supplementary classes in the special ed classroom (not the dumb but not retarded kids who would go to tutoring classes) all had varying degrees of autism. All anyone ever knew about them at the time was that they didn't really function to the same level the rest of the class did, but even as recent as the 90's talking about disabilities (especially mental ones) was a taboo subject. You learned very quickly that if you asked the teacher what was wrong with them they'd always snap that it's nobodies business. Except for when shit went down like the time in second grade the kid snapped and started chucking chairs (the teacher called for some sped teachers to get there immediately, and when they did we were herded outside for a random recess while they held him down, took off his shoes to make his kicks less potent, and dragged him down the hall literally kicking and screaming to the sped classroom for the rest of the day).
 
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The first two autists I knew were also the first two Mormons I knew more than in passing. I've had a jaundiced view of LDS ever since. This was in college.

One guy would ask to sing hymns while we were marching. At one point we were playing at stringing together impressive insults. In between all the "cum-burping cattle rapist" and "transexual shit eater" came his voice with things like "blasphemous heretic!"

The other guy would insist on cleaning any window blinds he found, including those in other people's rooms when he visited.
 
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Agent Nahman Jayden said:
There was a kid I went to elementary school with that was obviously exceptional but he would pitch bitch fits every time he didn't get his way - the most notable example I can remember is when he won the fourth-grade spelling bee because he whined whenever he got words wrong and he got several tries.
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Elementary school also when I meet them. They would just call you hyperactive and shove Ritalin down your throat.

Nobody called them autistic back then.
 
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Freshman year of Uni, I was waiting for a bus and this weird Sonicfag was telling me about how amazing Yuji Naka and SA2 were as he was listening to "Live and Learn" from his iPhone. Like look, SA2 is fun, but calm down nigga. Found out later that he's an autist studying theatre. He's a nice dude, he just REALLY loves Sonic (and I'm a guy who was dumb enough to but Shadow the Edgehog in elementary). I can talk a man's ear off about all the glitches of Crash 2, but not like this guy
 
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During my senior year there was a sophomore beaner who was a huge weeb and a fan of Bruce Lee, to the point he got the bowl haircut. People made fun of him constantly for that and he just had that school shooter vibe going on. This dude hated me because the girl he orbited liked me and he kept trying to get her to hate me only for all his insults to be called projection by her. He tries sexually assaulting her but she told me it was the most pathetic attempt of rape because he kept saying sorry LMAO

Same year, there was a brony freshman in our computer class. He drew mlp porn and sold it to the other degens in his grade, he was a fucking idiot. I sold a giant set of MTG cards to him for $50 when I bought it from a friend for $5 all because I said there were rares and the hook line and sinker was a Japanese text card of IG a strong dark card or whatever they're called but it had bullshit summoning rules and was worthless to the deck I gave him.

Edit:remember the tism siblings, the sister who was in my grade would sit like a bird in class and cried about literally everything. Knew her since kindergarten. She's always been ignorant of social cues. Her younger brother was the worst of them both. Tolked wike this, had no understanding of social cues, never could shut up about weird shit. Made an ass of himself in school plenty of times. Once got detained by security for being a sped and starts slamming head on hard walls. After I finish highschool hear he he was the one who killed this freshman girl (was his girlfriend) and dumped her body at old abandoned oil rig and he disappears from home. Cops later find him and when they start searching him he starts yelling at them to fist his asshole. Still in prison to this day.
 
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Scratch This Nut said:
I don't know what OP expected from this.
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The interesting stories everyone has mostly been posting thus far.


Anyway, a new memory unearthed himself. My first real exposure to autistic behavior actually came from watching the documentary Trekkies when I was a lot younger.
Star Trek is fun and I love learning about it, but even though I had no idea what autism was, I recall the behavior shown in it was weird to me. Grown adults, older than even my mother, were going to supermarkets in Trek uniforms, changing their legal names to "James T. Kirk" and the like, and I almost remembered wondering if it was a joke or something. I knew there was something wrong with them, but yeah, autism never crossed my mind.

I'm sure the film would be a lot less fun now and simply cringe-inducing.

Trek has always been one of the original autism hives.
 
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You mean besides ourselves?

I grew up in the whole "mixed" environment during my school years where the autistic kids share classes with the rest of the students. My first was as early as first grade, and is one I consider a personal annoyance. This one kid who looked like (and even claimed he was at times) Freddy from the Nightmare on Elm Street films who never shut up and obsessed over anime I could never give a shit over. And it'd get worse over time. I had to move schools by the time I entered high school just so I didn't have to put up with him.

I could go on and on about things like the time a sped nearly made me crack open my skull on the floor, or some of the people in wheelchairs that keep moving their jaws like the Yip Yip aliens, but I'd be here all day. Plus it's "first encounters" after all.
 
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I've always attracted weirdos my whole life so I've always had autistic/sped/schizo people orbiting around me for whatever reason.
Autism specifically I didn't know much about until learning about Chris Chan, at which point I realized how many autistic kids I knew growing up. One girl I knew in 1st grade was pretty much how I imagine young Chris-Chan acted, withdrawn into her fantasy world, very prone to meltdowns, a bit like babysitting a very large toddler. I think I can imagine how Chris's high school gal-pals must have felt since my niceness and (soon paper-thin) patience got me stuck as a sperg rangler a few times. Which was bullshit, but that's another story.
 
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I used to ride the bus with a brother and sister that were both fucked up. One time the girl stabbed herself in the leg a bunch of times with a pencil. We didn’t see her anymore after that
 
I don’t technically have autism, as I wasn’t initially diagnosed with it, but what I was diagnosed with was later lumped in with ASD.

I was diagnosed with non verbal type PDD-NOS, which was regrouped as ASD in DSM 5. However, I don’t have any social or tard symptoms, my symptoms are primarily dyspraxia and fine motor issues.

I was diagnosed in 2001 under the DSM IV when PDD-NOS was still distinct from both Aspergers and Autism, then under DSM 5 in 2013 all of them became part of ASD.
 
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