Is it normal that i can't stand highly autistic people?

Look, I'm going to try to water this down as much as i can, but i can't possibly make it sound politically correct. Go ahead, Call me "Idiot" and "stupid" and anything else you can slam at me, tell me how i shouldn't judge them because "they can't help it", i don't care.

I can't stand HIGHLY autistic people. I mean HIGHLY autistic, not anyone with aspergers or "High Functioning Autism".

I have met only one autistic person in my lifetime, which is enough for me. She is in my class.
The teachers let her watch youtube and play a Gameboy Advance all day just to keep her quiet. She only does about 10% of her classwork. I'll sum her up:

* She screams constantly
* She accuses any student who looks at her of sexually harassing her.
* She watches Sonic/Mario plush videos and Cereal Commercials while quoting them out loud.
* She sings Disney movie soundtracks out loud.
* She says "Sorry!" about every 20 minutes, and every time someone actually catches her doing something she shouldn't do. It's her go-to phrase, but my friends and i are 100% sure she has no idea what it means.

Some of her antics:

* Calling a kid "Ugly" for talking to her aid.
* Talking out loud (In Detail) about why she needs tampons, the class pretty much went hysterical while laughing about this.
* Trying to fly by flapping her arm fat (She does this every day, but most frequently at lunch)
* Telling everyone how "Not Sexy" they are just because someone said "Sexy".

It simply bothers me that she can be so cruel and selfish, and yet have so many more privileges than normal students just because she has autism, and how teachers and staff let it slide when she does something a regular kid would get suspended for doing.

I know that there are no two cases of autism that are alike, but from what i've read, most highly autistic people are the same caliber of evil.

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  • crion

    I have Asperger's. Supposedly. Personally, I think my shrinks have their heads up their asses. But, yeah, cognitive bias, full disclosure, etc.

    It's perfectly normal to get pissed at that kind of behavior. What's important is not to condone it, but to tolerate it as best you can. Remember the episode of South Park where Mr. Garrison and Mr. Slave teach the town about the difference between tolerance and stupidity?

    Anyway, the real people to be pissed at are the retards running the schools. Some dumbass politician thinks that it's a good idea to treat everyone exactly the same, so your autistic classmate has to be given a free passes for courses she can't understand, attend a classroom where the teachers have no special training or experience with autism, and interact with kids who find her an object of ridicule or a source of extreme annoyance. That's why she gets to play game boy and is given a free pass.

    The problem with disciplining autistic kids is twofold: they only learn on a very primitive level, but because they're human beings, classical conditioning is considered torture. Her antics are caused by hypocritical sympathy and the resultant lack of discipline (effective or otherwise). She isn't evil nor is she a sweet little angel who doesn't understand her own actions. She needs someone to spank her, make her eat her veggies, and tell her to go to her room when she's being bad, but her condition makes that very hard.

    Autistic people have a hard time learning, varying degrees of social awkwardness, and an abnormal rate of development, but otherwise, they're ordinary people.

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    • jazminions

      That episode of South Park was one of the best lessons in tolerance I had when I was younger, better than any school talk or educational video. It was when I finally understood: "tolerating something doesn't mean you have to like it".

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  • loopoo

    She shouldn't be in your class, she should be in a special school, it pisses me off when people think that people like that should be in 'normal' schools. They are disruptive to people who want to learn and should be somewhere where they have people who can handle and teach them.

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  • "I can't stand HIGHLY autistic people"

    "I have met only one autistic person in my lifetime"

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    • TheLoneWonderer

      One is enough.

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      • Slow down there Mr lonewankerer.

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    • That is the first thing I noticed in this post as well. lol.

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      • Maybe you're a sharp cat.

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  • LoveMyCottonShirt

    I once worked in a school that had a large retard (autistic) kid population - and it was like being in Auschwitz. The kids were violent, loud, generally insane and impossible to control. The teachers couldn't actually physically restrain the retards (because of laws made by liberal faggots), so they just ran around the school yelling about nothing at the top of their lungs. The school was so bad that almost all parents of non-retards pulled their children from the school so the retards wouldn't disrupt their learning (not to mention scare them). Letting autistic kids go to public school is a disgrace, they detract from the ability of the 99% of non-retards to learn and have an enjoyable childhood experience. No more tax dollars to educate retards - enough is enough.

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  • SkullsNRoses

    There were several highly autisitc students in my secondary school and I will admit that although I knew they couldn't help a lot of their behaviour I did sometimes find them incredibly annoying, especially when I was paired up with them, or made to work with them as part of a group. They wouldn't do much, if any, of the work they were asked to do and often made up their own task or simply stared at people, objects or walls for long streches of time (one boy once gazed at the fire alarm for 50 minutes straight).
    What they said was occasionally funny one girl for instance loudly annouced that she wanted to have sex with one of the autistic boys, followed by a description and gestures to her genitals. The boy who would stare at the alarm would constantly (and most likely unintentionally) flirt with the teachers, when told "Your work's looking good" he would respond "No, you're looking good, Miss". He wrote a song about another teacher with the lyric "I can feel Miss *name* in the air tonight, Oh Lord".
    However for every funny moment there were about 20 irriating ones so I would say yes, it is normal to find such people annoying, it sounds like in the case of this girl she shouldn't even be in a mainstream school.

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    • TheLoneWonderer

      Same goes with my school. I know 2 autistic kids now.
      One boy, and the girl described in the post. One funny moment was the girl calling the boy "Duck boy" for no apparent reason, and then acting VERY surprised to find out that his name wasn't actually Duck Boy.

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      • SkullsNRoses

        Lol, Duckboy sounds sweet .We had 5 kids with obvious autism at my school, and seeing as there were only 65 pupils things got a little crazy. Especially as 3 of them seemed to hate most of the school with a burning passion.

        A different girl to the one I mentioned earlier constantly reminded me, and other people, that she could (supposedly) kill us in nine seconds. But it was funny sometimes, when a bully stole his books one of the autistic boys screamed at him, "Your dog is going to rip off your penis!", which became a running joke.

        Do you have any more stories?

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  • Terence_the_viking

    You're a fucking idiot.

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  • She sounds entertaining. We need more people like that in our society.

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  • Shnaz

    She amplifies this behavior when you are around cause she hates your guts.

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  • pacinoharmon

    I can see why you're annoyed by her behavior. Not trying to be mean, it would be annoying if a non-autistic person did that stuff too.

    I agree with some of the other comments; why isn't she in a special class? When I was in middle and high school there was a special class for mentally disabled students.

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  • chicanapride1041

    My 2nd cousin is autistic used to be high level but lowered to moderate as her skills improved. It's completely normal to feel like that but we have to have a lot of patience with them as well. We've probably all felt this way one time or another. Yes I do agree they need to be disciplined so they can have self control and progress their mind to know things better.

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  • tarikaybartugu

    Tell her you want to be her manager, drop down some contracts and enlist her in a punk band. You will be rich out of the blue.

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  • la_la_la_la

    We can all be irritating. I'm 30, have been a care home resident for 6mo & I know one man who's in his 40s but he's like a child. He's like my little brother/son. He's obsessed w/ watches, has tons of clocks in his room & tells everyone about them every 5 secs, but as irritating as he was/is, I envy some of his traits; he sees everyone as a friend; he's happy where he is while a lot of us are not; he gets excited about the simplest things . I can hardly criticise him, I'm obsessed with music.

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  • anti-hero

    Fuck it, let 'em paint.

    You will get that in the morning.

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