# 8 you can say anything you want and not be held against it.

By saying that we can say anything we want, I don't mean that we can get away saying vicious things to other people, as a matter of fact, most kids who are Autistic probably get discriminated against, and we are the one's that people say vicious things about. My account of this was when I was a kid, and my mom recalled me crying, and saying,"my Bully's called me a retarded Robot." They called me this because of my odd speech pattern, and the fact that I was so slow at everything. Although I went through this, I was definitely not always on this side of things. As most people realize, people with high functioning Autism can be very blunt and rude at times, and the more humble one's are actually willing to admit it, and can apologize for it. Although people can, and do get feelings hurt because of this, the important thing to realize is that most people with Autism do not intend to do this, reason's why I think this happens is because of a few reasons. One is because we don't always have an outlet for our feelings, and we want to explain to others what we see. Two is because we have trouble organizing our thoughts, and we have to bounce it off others to make sense of it, and it often comes out the wrong way. Another reason is because it's the only way it makes sense to us, and because we see it that way. For the most part, I have tried to avoid being too blunt, by thinking about what I say first, but it doesn't always come out like I have, and those that I can't avoid I say I am sorry to those I offended. However another side of this is that people might dismiss all that we say, and they don't let us make the point that we intend to. To some extent, this prohibits us from becoming people that are important to society, and we are dismissed as people who don't know what we are talking about. For this, I ask people to consider what we say, and to be open minded about how others see things, for people who are Autistic, and for those who are not. Because we can take responsibility for ourselves and for what we say.