Hi. My name is Robert.
I was debating this guy on another site on a game theory topic. (a rather viral topic online about buttons). He doesn't even know basic game theory, meanwhile I study it in university. I wrote to him about Nash Equilibrium and his response was: "I feel like I'm getting trolled. Are you autistic? not being mean but genuinely."
Yeah... forget the "not being mean" part. For any attempt I tried to make logically he just retaliated with insults, and when I called out some of his nonsense (pretending a made up scenario was possible in the real world) he claimed he thinks I'm really autistic. Not just that but he kept calling me that... after that his mask came off. "jeez the autism" multiple laugh emojis. "Are you telling me you've never heard that slang before?" (i'm not from his area) "that's the most autistic shit i've ever heard" multiple laugh emojis.
Then I sourced him a link to prove my point. he cherry picked one line from it that served his POV and said.. surprise.. "this is autism my man, you're autistic".
After I told him that he can't just use that word as an insult all the time, and called him a clown and said he can't talk to people like that, regardless if they're autistic or not, he just said: "I genuinely think you're autistic and you're proving more with this response".
I called him out for acting like a doctor, like he gave himself the right to diagnose people online... when in fact he behaved just like a teenager who used the word as a slur..
And this guy... asked if I ever got checked or just assumed I'm not... yes, I did get checked.
This guy is so extremely offensive. He thins I am autistic so he just throws the word like an insult.
I'd like to know... if any of you here have dealt with people this terrible.. what did you do in those instances? I don't know much about autism and the community, but I imagine you have encountered such people and I just want to let you know you truly don't deserve such awful experiences.
Thank you for hearing me out and I'm really sorry if I said anything wrong.