Treated differently since diagnosis?

[Droopy]

Have you been treated differently by others or felt more different yourself since having a diagnosis?

I would say that I have been more conscious of my difference from others since my diagnosis. Whenever I'm having a bad day or an "AS moment" my family usually bring it up in a negative way.

 

[KinksFan]

Why can't our family members just accept us, as we are?

 

[juffur]

This is why I haven't told any of my family. I just don't know how they will react.

 

[CJinherPJs]

I sometimes feel like I've been tarred with the stereotypes brush and generalized, and treated like a disorder instead of an individual. I've also had a couple of people patronize/talk down to me because of my diagnosis, and I hated that. The Educational Psychologist was the worst, and I hear she was like that with everyone. I'm glad I've seen the back of her now, the patronizing old crone that she was.

 

[superboyian]

Ever since my diagnosis and they know about my autism, they seem to be acting very differently towards me, I normally don't tell people anyways, but people somehow figure somethings very different about me. :lol2:

 

[eon]

having so recently discovered the possibility of my as, in the attempt to explain my focuses on how i can truly do a better job and do better than i have before at work i explained the traits applicable to my supervisor and wrote up the specific elements of my plan to overcome concentration issues and the way i can overexplain, talk too fast, or fail to know how to repair conversations. ever since then i've been getting seriously ridiculously poor work evaluations. it's like this person is suddenly just trying to nitpick every goddam detail and i feel like i'm being bullied. i don't know how to properly complain to someone at work about this.

 

[Leiservampir]

Kindaaaa. I felt a little different, but not much.
I do get treated a little differently by my parents and teachers, but again, not much.
I only got my diagnosis about 9 months ago, so..

I'm only mildly Autistic, but noone else knows exactly how I feel, so sometimes I milk it for all it's worth, but I always feel bad afterwards haha.

 

[Droopy]

it's like this person is suddenly just trying to nitpick every goddam detail and i feel like i'm being bullied. i don't know how to properly complain to someone at work about this.

Talk to your boss, or person in overall charge, and do it sooner rather than later. If your boss is the one bullying you, then talk to a co-worker or to a family member for help.

 

[Sofi]

I was diagnosed with high functioning autism when i was three years old so I didn't have any friends to be treated differently by. But I guess my Mum treated me differently as she knew what was up with me and better ways to deal with me.
When I meet new people, I think they know something is different with me and I also think when I tell them I have high functioning autism, they do treat me differently and I often feel belitted and patronized and not treated equally. Unfortunately.

 

[Geordie]

Yes. More likely, people will look at me and say 'this weirdo has ASD.'

 

[Kit]

I was diagnosed with autism at a young age and it effected how I was treated in the future by my school. I was placed in a speciel ed class full time with the other kids who were lower functioning than I was but there were high functioning ones too. Not all of them had autism. They had other conditions too like Down's syndrome, MR, learning difficulties, ODD, behavior issues. My parents got me out of there but mom had to have me get tested again so I be in regular ed and not be excluded out of regular ed.

When I got diagnosed with AS, I got more understanding from my mother. She stopped getting mad at me about how I act and my obsessions.

I don't think I was treated any different by other kids. Kids just didn't bully in my middle school or high school because it was a small school.

 

[jaws]

I think I have been treated a bit different...mostly in a more negative way. Sure, they (family members) try to be nicer and more apologetic...but it really irritates me the way they act as if I just became this way since the discovery. My significant other is always going on about all the accommodations he now has to make because of my AS and how difficult it is now...I'm completely baffled by everyone's inability to get that I've ALWAYS had it, and nothing has changed, other than we now know why I do certain things.

And, Leiservampir - I'm with you on the milking it issue...at first I was not, but after the way I've been treated like a burden now, screw 'em.

I guess to be fair, I've probably been less accommodating (not trying as hard to appear normal) since finding out.

 

[Geordie]

Yes. After diagnosis, 'are you off from lessons because you got the teachers' favor? Scram!'