I need help understanding different personality types!

[Nedkel]

They should stop sharing their story with strangers on the internet, so healthy ones will stop judging them over their disability and not ostracise them because of it.

That way if they experience something bad from people it will not be as bad as thinking that someone is hostile to them because of their autism which they told him about.
People take internet too seriously, you supposed to be anonymous here and just troll around.

[Solarra]

They should stop sharing their story with strangers on the internet, so healthy ones will stop judging them over their disability and not ostracise them because of it.

Terrible advice. Yes, people should be careful who they confide in, but I don't feel someone on the spectrum, or with any other disability, should feel obliged to say nothing and just hope nobody notices. Hiding who you are just to fit in isn't healthy for anyone (and that's assuming you succeed).
People with disabilities are as much a part of our community as those without and people need to accept that.

[NoirRen]

People with disabilities are as much a part of our community as those without and people need to accept that.

Yes they are a part of a community. And no, noone is obliged to accept that.

[Nedkel]

Terrible advice. Yes, people should be careful who they confide in, but I don't feel someone on the spectrum, or with any other disability, should feel obliged to say nothing and just hope nobody notices. Hiding who you are just to fit in isn't healthy for anyone (and that's assuming you succeed).
People with disabilities are as much a part of our community as those without and people need to accept that.

The thing is, if we are speaking about the internet as a whole, there are many different cultures around the europe/NA/world that tend to accept or not accept people with disabilities at all.
Not all nations are as kind and accepting as the west, a lot of players will cut themselves off from someone with autism because they just dont like them for some reasons.
Internet is a wild place afterall, its good advice to avoid telling strangers about disability, a person with autism or some other kind of mental illness could be abused easily by someone with dark intentions online.
Telling them to be wide open on the internet is asking for trouble.

[AngelCheese77]

They should stop sharing their story with strangers on the internet, so healthy ones will stop judging them over their disability and not ostracise them because of it.

Yes they are a part of a community. And no, noone is obliged to accept that.

Wow, case in point here. Non accepting person. An example of someone who can't accept those who are different than them.

Question! If people with autism are really good at doing homework/research/study. Is it possible for someone to devote the time into studying social interaction? Like, I get that it's difficult to pick it up 'naturally,' but could it be learned through intense study? And then the follow-up to that question is. Does that 'intense study' phase only apply to a subject the person is passionate about?

If started early enough I don't see why not. Sadly with my husbnad, his mother took the "medicate until no one notices" approach. He's 45 now .. only learned about his Spectrum diagnosis at 43. His family never taught him about it or how to work with it. They covered it up behind medication so he looked and acted "normal".

For those who get social anxiety and feel bad about hurting someone through broken promises or failed outings--do you guys consider methods of redemption? Ways to make it up to those people, or just drift away with sole focus on avoiding the mistake entirely?

I drift away, then beat myself up years later after the fact when I can't do anything about it.

Now, my husband does tell people he has Aspergers/Spectrum Disorder. Why? See case in point on medication. He also finds it helps to explain why he did X thing or Y thing, and why his wife (me) stepped up and gently said something to him.