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Using Autism as an excuse - How to do it well...

I Sperg

A variant of the first part of my title pops up every week, it seems. 

CLEARLY a lot of us Autists have secondary immediate problems with the neuro typical people (and also on this forum we occasionally see with other Autists!)

I feel I could use a set of elegant and upbeat ways of explaining myself sometimes, (when I catch the other person reacting irrationally badly to a simple statement I made) that might cause them to discard the presentation and focus on the actual data or information I'm trying to impart. 

I'm wondering if anyone else has tacked this problem? Our issues I feel are very much tied up with "adverse PR" as much as they are basic limitations that we cannot overcome, BUT some limitations are just that, and when we hit them, we need to be able to not lose all credibilty instantly, as seems to repeatedly happen to me. (OR I may just be a berk! I'm too close to the trees to see the forest with that one, I guess)   

Anyone got any good workarounds, that can pacify the neurotypicals?

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  • I only managed it on few occassions, to trigger their freeze response for a short while. What I did turned out not to be replicable, and it worked only once.

    E.g. once with a friend in a pub we were bothered by a drunkard. I said to my friend: ''They exibit peculiarly low expression in information outcome, until they decide they don't like you, and turn, into spiting volcano of offended''. Drunkard stopped and started blinking like crazy, then walked away.

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  • I only managed it on few occassions, to trigger their freeze response for a short while. What I did turned out not to be replicable, and it worked only once.

    E.g. once with a friend in a pub we were bothered by a drunkard. I said to my friend: ''They exibit peculiarly low expression in information outcome, until they decide they don't like you, and turn, into spiting volcano of offended''. Drunkard stopped and started blinking like crazy, then walked away.

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  • in reply to Mariusz
    Mariusz said:
    What I did turned out not to be replicable, and it worked only once.

    Reminds me of the day paintballing when I charged into a hut full of well performing "enemy" screaming my head off (as per UK military doctrine) and nailed them all before they worked out what the noise was all about. Unfortunately I ran out of ammo, and thus had to give up the position to go get resupplied. 

    So when I was replenished, flushed by my previous success I tried it again...

    - And became an instant "casualty of war".... 

    Speaking of war, I've been watching it on the alternative media (That which I can stomach, or justify by having a non-morbid reason for watching) and it is a HORRIBLE activity. We really, really, need to stop getting angry with each other, over stupid and "little endian" arguments and just laugh at the other guys foibles, and find find better ways of curbing their crapulence than killing them.