What are the most ignorant comments you've heard or read people make about your disability?

I was at a mall once and an older lady came up to me and said "People like you should not be out in public", I asked her what she ment and she said " no one wants to see someone who cant move and needs a damm machine to breath for them", from that point on the conversation went down hill real fast.

I've been told by some people that I shouldn't be allowed to live a normal life or take risks, because I have a learning difficulty.

I am not thick or stupid and it doesn't matter how much I tell these people, they don't listen because they don't want to trust me. They all seem to think that I'm just making a load of nonsense.

I've been called, retard, stupid, tw@t, pig face, birkett, spag, dinosaur brains, etc all because I have Dyslexia.

Apparently to some people, I don't know how to think and care for myself.

Some people don't know what a learning difficulty is to be honest. Because it ends with the word "Disability or Difficulty", they immediately think I'm intellectually and mentally challenged and I'm really stupid.

When I write this in my C.V or tell someone, they just stop speaking to me and ignore me.

I often hear comments that "Dyslexia is made up" "Its not a real disorder", "Dyslexia is just an excuse for being stupid and lazy" and other uneducated comments.

Ignorant comments about CFS & Fibromyalgia, "oh but you look so well", "I am tired too", "isn't that were you can't get out bed?".

"You can't have that, you work" (I can only work part time, one day one day off, and only for a few hours).

"My friend had that for 6 months, she's better now" my reply to this is; to be diagnosed with CFS you have to have unrelenting fatigue etc for more than 6 months, here is some information on CFS.

"My knees have been really achy lately - maybe I have fibromyalgia."

"You need to try harder or do more exercise".

"Oh you think, you have that" or "who told you have that" my comment to this is; I have four formal independent diagnosis from medical professionals, whats your medical qualifications.

Strangely if they see me at my worst, they complain that I can't speak, let alone think clearly, why can't you sit still, why you can't walk in a straight line, are you drunk?, "hey I was talking to you and you went to sleep". When I finally snap and say well this is CFS & Fibro they shut up.

I also work people people with disabilities, many of whom are unable to communicate verbally, and then its assumed that the person is able to think for themselves, its amazes me how many times people direct a comment or question to me and not the person.

Some 15 year old told someone that was 30 that they were a "cyst on society" because they listened to metal. BQ: Feeling fine, drinking wine and rocking out!! BQ2: Scale The Summit BQ3: Im keeping my options open ;)

I have often seen people make comments like "if you really had Asperger's syndrome you wouldn't be aware of you being different from everyone else" and "if you really had Asperger's syndrome you wouldn't be able to ask and answer questions this well" when someone asks about Asperger's syndrome.

I've heard many people say that Asperger's syndrome is a fictional disorder, made up as an excuse for various things (whatever they think we need to excuse). I recently read a comment on Y!A saying that people with AS insist on abdicating the responsibility to look after themselves.

A lot of people think that there is no difference between having Asperger's syndrome and being a shy and introverted nerd with low self-esteem.

And then there are all the stereotypes, like all Aspies are good at math, all Aspies are savants, Aspies can't have empathy, Aspies can't have successful and meaningful relationships...

Some people also think that all Aspies are the same, so if they have met or heard about one Aspie they think the rest of us are exactly the same as that one, as if we can't have different personalities like other people.

Some people think that everything we do and everything about us is because of Asperger's syndrome. If we make a mistake, people think it's because we have AS. If we are in a bad mood one day, people think it's because of AS. If we have some bad personality trait, people think it's because we have AS. If we have an opinion on something, it's not valid because we have AS, so people think we can't think straight.

This one was about a high school/college/Myspace friend's disabilities: "Could you tell your friend we don't normally talk to people like her? Make her understand we were just being nice to her." I thought that was disgusting. How is it nice to talk to someone so eager to have new friends, and act all friendly, and then come up to me in an aside and say that?

A doctor who met me kept talking to me and got to the part on the questionnaire where I wrote that I have Asperger's. He looked me up and down, said, "Well, you can't tell by looking at you. Are you sure about that?"

A counselor dismissed it and said, "I thought you outgrow that by the time you're 18."

Quite a few people say or have said stuff like, "That's just a nice way to say you're stupid." "It's a made up problem." "It's schizophrenia without the voices and hallucinations." "You're just weird." "You're a psycho if you have any kind of autism." "You're a freak if your mind is like an encyclopedia." "You're really just a loser and would have been weeded out in the old days."

There's more, but that about gets the point across.

Asperger's, mine in particular, is not a mental illness. It is a mental defect, but not an illness.

I know of a company that supposedly helps the disabled, with the mentality that disabled people will never amount up to what a person that has no disability can.

All of the questions on Yahoo Answers asking "How do blind people know when they're done wiping their butts?" That has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I'm blind, but even I know that a sighted person can't turn their head around and look at their butt.

I had the pleasure of being called "Extremely simple man (a retard)" by the Communist-Wealth of Virginia due to my speech impairment and nothing else. The Communist-Wealth of Virginia continued with this insult by informing me "You need to stick to jobs that you know how to do (pushing a mop or a broom) because people like you (the 'retarded') don't have the mentality to do anything else".

I might have a speech impairment but I still managed to graduate college with highest honors thus proving that I do have the mentality to do anything that I want despite what these fools that run this worthless state want to think about people with disabilities.

In response to mentioning I have children I was told "people like you should be sterilized at birth, nobody wants to pay for your bastard children just because your to retarded to raise them yourself".

I have a some mental health problems but my main issue is a physical disability, which has left me needing two sticks and a wheelchair for some of the time.

I couldnt't belive what I was hearing, it was said in such a spiteful way!

The most ignorant comment I heard about my Asperger's is that I am sick and that I won't be able to live a normal life. It was my aunt's friend who told me and it's people like that who make me feel bad about myself.