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Yesterday I was at a health evaluation for a driver's license. Everything went well with my physical health, but at questioning, my autism was bought up. I was accused of needing help with learning in primary school (despite of my grades, that were usually B (I know, I'm lazy)) and now I need a psychological evaluation.

When I started high school, most professors infantalized me, but later stopped after I proved myself (ok, some didn't stop, like the slovene teacher and the sport teacher/coach).

When I meet someone new, they always think I am intelectually disabled, before proving otherwise...

Why is this happening?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Maybe because you can't spel

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I'm sorry for whatever happened in your life that led to a need to post something like this. Hope things get better for you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm typing this on a phone and english is my second language. Sorry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think you need to apologize to that user. They were being rude and violated the community rules. We all make spelling mistakes. I make them all the time, and I'm a native English speaker. Don't worry too much about it unless you really want to 🙂

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Well, I feel bad, because I never noticed how much mistakes I made.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

i thought we stopped doing this "i spell bad therefore dumb" shit back in 2010

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Did you know there is overlap between dyslexia and autism?

Speaking for myself, communication and language is pretty damn hard. The act of having to recheck and verify all the time if its all correct makes my head spin. I can either accept that i do make tons of mistakes (including use of wrong words and mispronounced in spoken words) or i can save myself the stress and stop communicating in general.

Its not like you can write properly yourself as last i checked a sentence has to end in a point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I might have dyslexia, but I started reading very early in kindergarten and back then, I found it easier to read, than I do now. I suspect, that I had injured my eyes some way, but the tests for the driving test were good, so you might be right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why did you decide to be an asshole today, to a person opening up and asking for help?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

A quick perusal of comment history makes it seem more like a "day ending in y" kind of deal

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Spelling is not the only indicator of academic intelligence and academic intelligence is not the only way of being intelligent