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

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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