Your personal experience with spergs and 'tismals

[CatParty]

i log into here everyday

 

[SU 390]

So obviously not the Chris we all know and love.

So my experience with someone with da 'tisms was a girl I supervised when I worked for Hollywood Video. This was just after I got married.

I was basically the only supervisor who could get her to stay on task and I found out it was because she had a major crush on me. She would always ask me out and refused to accept that I was happily married. She thought I was faking it. I reminded her several times that my wife came into the store all the time and that she had met my wife.

She started making me dinner and bringing it to me, even on days that she didn't work with me. Finally I told her that she was being inappropriate and that I was her supervisor and if she didn't stop I would have Greg, our boss, fire her for sexual harassment. Then my wife told her that if she didn't back off that she would gouge her eyes out.

She's definitely that 'Notice me senpai' type of person. Holy fuck!

 

[Ancani]

I'm not going to bother re-posting my experience with creepy sperg, but I am gonna point out I have autism. I'm not really that bad anymore but in my early days in high school it was probably clear something was a little off... especially sophomore year when I had a crush on this one girl and responded to my own feelings very poorly. I didn't do anything creepy but it wasn't in the best of tastes either and led to her avoiding me for a little while, despite us having been friends before it. I still cringe when I look back on it.

I'm autistic as well and I feel you on this kinda thing. I'm very high-functioning but social shit is...uh, not exactly my forte, and I've fucked over wayyy too many friendships in my life.

Although in a lot of those cases, they were kind of awful people themselves. Mixed blessings?

Anyway. I knew a sperg in middle school who was super weird. We'll call him Corey. Corey was totally obsessed with the Civil War, to the extent that he wore a replica of a Civil War-era army cap to school every. Goddamn. Day. His hygiene was a bit questionable too. What stands out, though, is the time in 7th grade that he attacked me with that fucking hat.

He'd been annoying me about some BS at lunch, and being a sperg myself, my response was a rather blunt "shut the hell up and go away." He responded by chasing me around the student lounge trying to hit me with his hat, succeeding in clipping my arm once or twice, before some of my friends managed to get him to stop.

But wait, there's more! I found out maybe a month back that Corey's parents are friends with my friend Olivia's parents, so they were forced to hang out a lot as kids, being fairly close in age (Corey is a year or so my senior, with Olivia being around a year my junior). And apparently one time when Olivia was three or so, Corey tried to drown her in her family's pool.

Seriously.

I mean, he would've been about five when this happened so I'm not sure he would have understood the gravity of the situation, but...seriously, wow.

Apparently she got him to let go by biting him.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Been around plenty of them all my life. Having been in special needs programs in elementary and junior high (mostly due to anger issues). And trust me, I've seen a few nutcases (some with similar cases like me, others affected more severely) in my lifetime to say that this is one aspect that the internet is at least partially right on.

 

[Abethedemon]

I have the spergers. Guess that explains a few things about me. I've met plenty of really nice people with aspergers, and some who weren't as nice. It's hard to define to a clear culture.

 

[Zim]

My friend convinced me to work with him on one of those volunteer railroads that are so prevalent in the north east us. I don't actually like trains that much but I like working with my friends, heavy machinery, and building thing with my hands.

Thanks to working around trains I've seen levels of sperg and autism I never thought existed. There are some cool people who volunteer, don't get me wrong, but I'm not kidding when there are a surprising amount of people there who don't know they're allowed to have more then one interest in life. I've witnessed 2 guys argue for over an hour about if some train was in one state or another during some part of the trains operation and it got pretty heated. There are a lot of guys there who can tell you where any engine was and is just by it's number.

You also get maladjusted dudes in their early 20's who act like they're in their 60's and will not talk to you unless it's about trains. These particular spergs I feel sorry for because in 10 or 20 years they might realize how much life they missed out on by spending every waking hour hanging out with retired guys talking about train shit.

Then there's the total autistic wonders who are all of the above plus spend all the time they aren't at the train yard chasing and filming freight trains and walking along miles of tracks. They are scary into trains. I don't get how trains do this to people but because of the absurd amount of train autism and sperging I had to put up with I don't even like volunteering hardly at all.

Sorry this sort of turned into a rant didn't it?

 

[Ravenor]

My friend convinced me to work with him on one of those volunteer railroads that are so prevalent in the north east us. I don't actually like trains that much but I like working with my friends, heavy machinery, and building thing with my hands.

Thanks to working around trains I've seen levels of sperg and autism I never thought existed. There are some cool people who volunteer, don't get me wrong, but I'm not kidding when there are a surprising amount of people there who don't know they're allowed to have more then one interest in life. I've witnessed 2 guys argue for over an hour about if some train was in one state or another during some part of the trains operation and it got pretty heated. There are a lot of guys there who can tell you where any engine was and is just by it's number.

You also get maladjusted dudes in their early 20's who act like they're in their 60's and will not talk to you unless it's about trains. These particular spergs I feel sorry for because in 10 or 20 years they might realize how much life they missed out on by spending every waking hour hanging out with retired guys talking about train shit.

Then there's the total autistic wonders who are all of the above plus spend all the time they aren't at the train yard chasing and filming freight trains and walking along miles of tracks. They are scary into trains. I don't get how trains do this to people but because of the absurd amount of train autism and sperging I had to put up with I don't even like volunteering hardly at all.

Sorry this sort of turned into a rant didn't it?

Oh no your right Sonic isn't the King of Tisim it's trains Sonic is just the Demon Prince by comparison, they have this unnatural power to bring out the inner sperg in otherwise normal people.
It's like the dark lord of change takes a otherwise decent person an turns them into this ungodly sperg spawn that knows in minutia every detail no mater how obscure about certain trains an will argue the point with you.

 

[Morbid Boredom]

I don't get how trains do this to people...

Autistic people love routines. What's more routine than a train?

 

[KingofManga420]

@DeagleBoipussy420 is retarded irl

 

[Xarpho]

Autistic people love routines. What's more routine than a train?

I've found freight trains to be a bit of a loose cannon, actually. The 8 o clock train may not come at all, or come early, or late, assuming you even have one.

(You guys can go ahead and rate that as Autistic now.. )

 

[Overcast]

Well, there's my twin brother. Who, coincidentally, is also named Chris. Go figure.

He and I both have autism, but he was more affected by it than I was.

He spergs over Disney, both movies and tv shows, old CN and Nick shows, video games like Mario, Kirby, Crash, ect. When it comes to that stuff, he's pretty talkative, and even remembers how many episodes certain shows have and how many years they lasted. He even watches certain shows with me. A recent example being Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. During those times, he can be nice to be around.

When it comes to everything else... Not so much. He tends to whine and act pissy whenever things aren't going his way. And he seems to lack a conversational filter. He sometimes pushes my parents up to the point where they get mad at him and every time he goes, "I'll stop!" or "I'm sorry!" He always repeat what he does though.

He can be incredibly hard to be around at times, but he's not a bad person.

 

[Magpie]

I have spent the past few months living with someone who has a Touch of the 'Tism. He's my partner's brother - let's call him O, and I remember back when I still lived in the States they would complain about how damned obnoxious O was. I gave O the benefit of the doubt, saying oh no he can't be that bad.

Clearly living with him has proven just how wrong I was.

His mild Asperger's is suddenly taken by his parents as a free pass for literally EVERYTHING. He acts like an asshole? He doesn't clean up after himself? He stinks up the house because he doesn't want to bathe? He leaves pubes scattered everywhere in spite of being asked nicely then told to just clean them up? "Aw, he can't control it because Asperger's... Take it easy on him." They'll let him eat all of his junk food, taking entire packs of donuts and Pringles in a day (thanks to this plus never going outside, he's a porker), but criticize my partner and I if we want to eat bacon every now and again. O knows this, and he exploits it. The result is one really lazy, bratty, and entitled shithead. See, I did give him leeway but now his parents (who mean well, but are ultimately dipshits) are actively playing a hand in making sure he regresses to the mindset of a six year old.

And these same people will actively deny the existence and impact of shit like bipolar, saying hokey garbage like "oh you just have to look at things differently" - bite me.

He's also a brony and has an obnoxious aura about him. Like his voice, the noises he makes when he breathes, all of his general presence is enough to drive me up a wall. Thankfully though my partner and I have found a place and will be moving out so we don't need to be around this manchild in the making.

 

[Ancani]

I have spent the past few months living with someone who has a Touch of the 'Tism. He's my partner's brother - let's call him O, and I remember back when I still lived in the States they would complain about how damned obnoxious O was. I gave O the benefit of the doubt, saying oh no he can't be that bad.

Clearly living with him has proven just how wrong I was.

His mild Asperger's is suddenly taken by his parents as a free pass for literally EVERYTHING. He acts like an asshole? He doesn't clean up after himself? He stinks up the house because he doesn't want to bathe? He leaves pubes scattered everywhere in spite of being asked nicely then told to just clean them up? "Aw, he can't control it because Asperger's... Take it easy on him." They'll let him eat all of his junk food, taking entire packs of donuts and Pringles in a day (thanks to this plus never going outside, he's a porker), but criticize my partner and I if we want to eat bacon every now and again. O knows this, and he exploits it. The result is one really lazy, bratty, and entitled shithead. See, I did give him leeway but now his parents (who mean well, but are ultimately dipshits) are actively playing a hand in making sure he regresses to the mindset of a six year old.

And these same people will actively deny the existence and impact of shit like bipolar, saying hokey garbage like "oh you just have to look at things differently" - bite me.

He's also a brony and has an obnoxious aura about him. Like his voice, the noises he makes when he breathes, all of his general presence is enough to drive me up a wall. Thankfully though my partner and I have found a place and will be moving out so we don't need to be around this manchild in the making.

Oh lord, parents who coddle autistic children to that degree are fucking awful, especially since it's SO counterproductive.

Yes, an autistic kid is gonna require a different parenting and discipline style from a non-autistic kid...but to be fair, that applies to all children, really. Teaching any kid that bad behavior is okay is...well, not okay. I'm of the mind that parents with autistic children need to teach them to control themselves even more than other parents might need to, in fact--it IS often learned behavior for us, but that's sure as hell not a free pass to be a little shit.

Sorry if this is off-topic, it's just a pet peeve of mine, since I see it happening so often with really disastrous results.

 

[Magpie]

Oh lord, parents who coddle autistic children to that degree are fucking awful, especially since it's SO counterproductive.

Yes, an autistic kid is gonna require a different parenting and discipline style from a non-autistic kid...but to be fair, that applies to all children, really. Teaching any kid that bad behavior is okay is...well, not okay. I'm of the mind that parents with autistic children need to teach them to control themselves even more than other parents might need to, in fact--it IS often learned behavior for us, but that's sure as hell not a free pass to be a little shit.

Sorry if this is off-topic, it's just a pet peeve of mine, since I see it happening so often with really disastrous results.

It's at the point where he can get out of anything he doesn't like. The most irritating example is that now he gets to hog the main bathroom (when he has his own) and has for months now. First it was because "his bathroom was cold". Now apparently he forgot how to wash his hair so at the age of 16 his parents are washing his hair for him in spite of him being perfectly capable before the shift into maximum coddledrive. The excuse is Asperger's of course, with the added bullet point of "well he doesn't like getting his face wet."

I swear they are two steps away from wiping his ass for him. And he doesn't get on well with me because unlike his parents, I still see Aspies (especially ones that have it as mildly as him) as perfectly capable of taking care of themselves because literally every one I have encountered (not including Tumblr) has proven that to me.

EDIT: Unrelated to O but I also faintly remember some kid from back when I was in the first grade. She was really short and had a temper worse than my own at the time which really spoke for something. Dunno if she actually had anything up with her but from some reason she flipped her shit when I accidentally bumped into her and sunk her teeth into my finger. Even for as stupid and arbitrary all kids are at that age, that seemed particularly out there. :v

 

[fuzzypickles]

I've dealt with my fair share of spergs and 'tismals in my lifetime. Now, I'll share my personal experiences with two who stand out to me.

Spoiler: Read only if you have a good attention span

One kid, let's call him Peter, was severely autistic, which is to say that he couldn't talk, and had an adult with him at all times. When I was in middle school, I went to a day camp that catered to children with special needs (incase you're wondering, yes, I am a legit sperg), and all the kids there had conditions of varying severity, but Peter stood out because he was by far the most disabled of all the kids at the camp. Another kid, who I was friends with at the time, kind of made fun of Peter because he was so different from everyone else. Eventually, I asked a counselor at the camp about Peter and learned that he had autism, and I thought to myself "I'm autistic too, but I speak just fine, and can do things fairly normal, so why can't he?" Being at camp with this kid ultimately taught me a few things about autism and just how serious it could be, and I started to feel sorry for him, after learning what I needed to learn.

Now for the other kid, who for posterity's sake, let's call him Adam. I learned about him when I was in second grade, and the first incident I heard involved him was a physical altercation with my friend at her birthday party over an inflatable parrot. He was dragged away, thankfully, but he didn't really learn anything because his mother is an enabler on par with Barb. Fast forward a few years, and I find that he is in speech therapy with me in fifth grade. He would play with Barney toys while he was supposed to be focused on the assignment at hand, that is, the actual speech therapy. Must I repeat that he was playing with Barney toys in fifth grade? Cut to middle school, which is the last time I see him. Eventually I become friendly with him over common interests, like Nintendo, as we were in the after school program together. However, my mother, concerned for my well-being, eventually tells me not to talk to Adam because of his issues with his temper, which his mother preferred to enable rather than help rectify. I haven't heard from him since then, and I don't have high hopes for this guy's future, knowing what I know about him.

 

[Wolf Fetuses]

I have bipolar disorder and dyspraxia so my life is a mess a lot of the time, so excuse the hypocrisy, but I digress.

My brother has high functioning autism and as I mentioned on some brony thread somewhere, loves ponies. But a more interesting story is a kid I went to school with (primary and secondary school/elementary, middle and high school for the yanks reading this) who, very much like Our Hero, was forced through mainstream school by his parents. This kid was severely autistic. More so than Chris. When he was 6-14, his meltdowns in response to thunderstorms, loud/high pitched sounds or lack of positive attention was funny. When he was nearly 17 and still hurling chairs across the room it was something else. I haven't seen him since I left school. but it definitely wasn't a good experience for him either. He got picked on so much that even the good kid kiss-ups would join in with it. And he had a weird sixth-sense for thunderstorms. They say dogs and cats can detect thunderstorms way before they come because they feel the static. I don't know if that's true but I think this kid was the same.

 

[Conrix]

John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were autists in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway.
John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad "I want to be on the ships daddy."
Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY AUTISTS!"
There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were autists.
"This is Joson" the radio crackered. "You must fight the autists!"
So John gotted his palsma rifle and blew up the wall.
"HE GOING TO KILL US" said the autists "I will shoot at him" said the cyberautist and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill.
"No! I must kill the autists" he shouted The radio said "No, John. You are the autists"
And then John was an asperger.

 

[DN 420]

Spoiler: Power-level & Rant

For my last two years in high school, I went to an Alternative High School. I did because I fucked things up for myself and thought it would be a good idea, it wasn't.

The kids mainly consisted of hypersensitivity and hugboxes. Sort of in the SJW-area sans a few fedora-wearers. But that's another story.

The key thing is that they coddled each other and expected coddling. They were always super respectful to one another, except for Lu.

Lu was the only person in the school to have autism. He loved minecraft and wanted to make video games himself.

By coincidence, at the beginning of the year I started a Game Design group on Fridays. I have previous experience and I wanted to see if I could help get a group of these kids to make a game. It went good for a few weeks, but nobody wanted to really include Lu.

I didn't really give a shit and let him join in because he was so goddamn keen and full of ideas. But he was constantly shut down by the other kids because he would speak out-of-line and he made them uncomfortable.

Eventually, I called the club quits because I eventually saw there was no way to make people get along with Lu and I wasn't going to kick him out.

And it kinda bummed me out that I had to because he usually keeps to himself, and he came out of his shell a lot during our meetings. His mom even thanked me at one point.

I don't know, I guess I'm white-knighting, but nobody respected this kid. He was bullied, at a school that cried foul at the smallest things, because he was different.

 

[meatslab]

There was one kid in particular that I think had autism due to his meltdowns, but I'm not quite sure. His name was Royce, and he was high functioning. He was never in special ed., he would say and do weird things, but other than that (and his meltdowns) he was normal and took the same classes as everyone else. I had him in at least one class from 6th-12th grade. To make this short(er) I'll just tell y'all his two most notable instances of his meltdowns.

The first time was in science class in 6th grade when we had a test. He sat right next to me. I had finished my test and turned it over and being an ADD kid I just looked around the room like I always did, waiting for everyone else to finish. All of the sudden I hear "Stop...talking to me...". I turn and see Royce with the most piercing stare. I give him a puzzled look and mouth "What?". Now he was louder, "Stop talking to me!". Other kids start to look over and I just stare at him and quietly tell him I didn't say anything. Then he yells at the top of his lungs "STOP TALKING TO ME!" and gets out of his seat. My teacher rushed over and set him at one of the lab tables assuring him that I wouldn't talk to him anymore. She didn't bring up the situation ever again.

The second time was when he was really off his rocker. It was in between switching classes during 9th grade and I had seen Royce sitting in the hallway with a teacher, some people gathered, and a pair of high heels scattered along with some books on the floor. Come to find out later Royce had tripped and dropped his books and some girl saw what happened and started helping him pick them up. He then pushed her to the ground, took off her shoes, and BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF HER with them.

He never got in trouble for any of this. I saw Royce one last time at the local community college when I used to take classes there, but I haven't seen him since.

 

[Conrix]

I want to take this time to state that I do not believe your Liberal "Science" regarding Autism being something that is out of its sufferer's control. Autism has no basis in either the Bible or Science, and I can only conclude that individuals choose to be Autistic because of some mania or lack of morality.

Kinda makes you think. Has any neurologist compared the brain of an autistic to a non-autistic?

Spoiler: Connorian Ranting

So if autism is indeed as fake as a tranny's tits, that means it creates a threefold danger to human rights made of excuses on both ends:
1) It allows sociopaths to use it as an excuse for doing horrible things, leaving introverts who don't shoot schools and steal from mom and pop shops to stew in the filth that the evil autist made.
2) Parents who want absolute control of their children can take a mild case of Asperger's and turn it into a tightly controlled routine made against their will, even well into adulthood. This could also leak into society itself, where an autist can practically be thrown in jail just for resembling a wanted serial killer.
3) 2 provides an excuse for the autistic to do nothing productive all day, feeling like society will drag them through the mud just because they can. Because that person supposedly can't talk to someone about it without their head exploding, and because picking on the weak is humanity's primal instinct which they downplay to look good. (On a side note, I've supported the meek that society didn't want, just to see if it would piss people off. Maybe if I post on tumblr about how I gave $100 to a homeless guy and spread the word to all the assholes who think I don't owe some hobo shit then it'd work.)

So on the subject, I was thrown in sped classes for simple behavior problems when I was in middle school and surprisingly I only know of one person who explicitly says he's autistic. He was really into Saturday Night Live, 80's/90's pop culture, Dragon Ball Z, Star Trek, Star Wars, Mega Man, and Mario. We're still chums to this day, even as we drifted apart we maintain contact via the magic of the internet. He considers me to be the best friend he's had. Of course there's the obligatory "sperging because you don't know when to stop" and infrequent behavior lapses but he's still a good person.

I probably know of a few more who could have been autistic but I don't want to mindlessly tar people with the autism paint. Especially after I said that false-tism is a goddamn threat to the decency of society.