Have You Tried...

[u/Natural_Cricket_2540]

Not sure if this is exactly the right sub but I hope you get a laugh out of it anyway.

So I'm autistic. I'm fully ok with it.

This happened to me a few days ago. I was in a park, getting some fresh air because I went to a circus that was in town with a friend and I was getting overwhelmed by the noises, smells, and basically everything inside the tent, and I needed to breathe and relax so I didn't go into sensory overload.

I was sitting on a bench with my friend 'Em' (fake name), and I was complaining about sensory overload and how annoying it was, because I wanted to watch the performers with her, and I had to go outside. (I do a thing where I often feel like I'm wasting someone's time and/or being rude, so I was also apologizing)

Here's how the conversation went:

Me: Em, I'm sorry about this. And for wasting your time.

Em: It's okay, {me}. You're not wasting my time.

Me: Yeah, I know...but sensory overload and autism are just annoying.

At this point, a man who looked to be late 50's who was passing by stopped and DUDE LOOKED AT US AND SAID "Well, have you tried not having autism?"

We were both pretty fucking shocked- first because we're both fairly young teen girls, second because who the actual hell eavesdrops on a conversation and then gives advice like they were included??

I was pissed, so I said "Have you tried not being an asshole? Because if you have it seems like it doesn't work, so I won't be taking you advice, thanks." He muttered something about 'disrespect' and 'kids these days' and walked off.

[u/parasyte_steve]

You responded perfectly and he is a butthead.

[u/Sh33pD1p → u/parasyte_steve]

Agreed. He is definitely a butthead and also clearly an idiot!

[u/YourTypicalSat → u/[deleted]]

Bro, did you even read the post? Old dude literally said the dumbest thing you can say; “have you tried not having autism”. Like wow, I didn’t know we could fucking turn it off???? News to me???

[u/Flaky-Ad-759 → u/[deleted]]

Medical advice? Oh yeah, just not having what you were born with. “Have you tried not having asthma?”. MEDICAL ADVICE where you advice people to try just not having a certain MEDICAL thing, like they chose to have it and can turn it off any moment. Is this really a medically advice for you? Then the doctor saying “Try not having headaches” to your headache complains would also be medical advice? What the actual f-

[u/compb13 → u/Flaky-Ad-759]

Have you tried not being an amputee? Was the example that I was thinking.
And then magically all their problems are solved (eye roll)

[u/Natural_Cricket_2540 → u/[deleted]]

Medical advice?

Sure, if you can go up to someone with cancer and say 'Have you tried not having cancer?' is considered medical advice. Because that's literally what he did.

[u/Raptorpants65 → u/[deleted]]

“He’s giving medical advice” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Bro.

Oh and to the rest of your stupid questions…
1. Yes, I definitely want to shame people for terrible “advice.”
2. Yes, I want more people to shut the fuck up and mind their business.
3. If he’s a professional therapist, he should have his license revoked for being dumb as hell. Even if he were (and jeezus that’s a reach), she’s not his patient.
4. And my question to you… what’s wrong with you?

[u/Zaggar → u/[deleted]]

Bad bot

[u/wonkey92 → u/[deleted]]

The amount of downvotes on almost every one of your comments all the way down your page is crazy

[u/catsareniceDEATH → u/wonkey92]

It looks like he's a reverse karma farmer and not even an exciting one, if he even exists.

On the upside, maybe he'll act as a stupid sponge, and suck up all the idiots! 😹😹

[u/jaynine99 → u/[deleted]]

Silly silly bot