Speaking

I've always felt this way. I feel that some people use my name when they speak to me, as they would a small child.(I'm 49)

I doubt anyone knew I was autistic, but they knew I was different and occasionally prone to meltdowns, so they infantilised accordingly.

That’s how I feel people talk to me like a child

That’s how I feel people talk to me like a child

Good for you. Sometimes that's what's needed. 

The only time I've ever really had that was with a bank teller, speaking loudly and slowly at me, she know I was ASC, so I told her I was autistic and not deaf or stupid and could she please deal with what I wanted, not what she thought I should have. I did complain about her to the manager.

I usually end up cutting those people off or having as little to do with them as possible from then on.