Why are people rude to people with learning disabilities?

[SouthMan28]

I have a mild learning disability and find members of our society to be quite rude towards me.

Why are people like this?

I often find that people just stare and laugh at me!

Have you known people to be like this?

I mean this in the most polite way (as I know some people can be assholes) - but are you sure they are staring and laughing at you?

Most people are so wrapped up and worried about themselves, they really aren't just walking around judging other random people openly like that

People are rude, I don’t know why, I wonder if people are not sure how to act having not spent time with people with LD? We (as a society) have spent so long hiding people with disabilities away, and we still have a segregated education system, people are ignorant I think.
Sorry you have to put up with this though OP. Wish I had an answer.

Yes, I'm sure a few are like this. Judging people with learning disabilities. As I've heard people say the R word when I've been around and some people seem to have a smirk look on their face when they look at me!

How would people know by looking at you that you have a learning disability?

Practice your resting bitch face and giving the middle finger...

I’m sorry you have to put up with people like that op. Some people are vile.

I think it's more to do with the way I speak to people and my behaviour with the way I socialise with people.

Yeah, doing that when you are already vulnerable is really a great idea.

Disability makes some people very uncomfortable. I suppose it's because they don't know how to react but don't cope well with difference. So they notice the difference, don't really want to be rude about it but end up being rude anyway.

Some people are very judgmental. So they are likely to judge everyone whether they have a learning disability or not. Some people on Mumsnet, for example, judge people who make spelling mistakes very harshly. It's possible that the person making the errors is dyslexic but they don't take this into account.

The thing to remember is that other people's behaviour tells you more about them than it does about you. If they are rude to you, it means that they are rude. It doesn't mean that you are unworthy of their respect. They just are incapable of being respectful.

Short answer? Because some people are dicks. They have a very narrow view of what's "normal" and "acceptable ". They're also too lazy to try and understand and/or educate themselves so all do is judge, stare,sneer. It says a lot more about them, than you.

I used to work with people with LD and sadly, yes. Every single one of them had experienced rudeness and discrimination, including my own son. It's because the rude people can. Because they want someone they see as "lower" in the social pecking order to look down on. Inadequacy and lack of basic empathy and good manners is at the root of it. I challenge it whenever I see it.
OP, you have your dignity. No-one can take it away. Certainly not some nasty person.

sadly people do this. my dd is severely disabled and has lds.
used to be horrid the way people just let their kids stand and stare at her.
not so bad now she is an adult. might he helped by her 6ft tattooed big brother.

It's not just learning disabilities unfortunately it seems to be msny disabilities.

I'm registered blind and the amount of people who talk to me like I'm stupid, are all impressed when I do something simple etc - very ridiculous.

It's pure ignorance on their part. They don't know how varied learning disabilities are so they just lump them all under one as they're too lazy to learn if it doesn't directly affect them (like a friend or family having a LD).

I'm sorry you've had to put up with this though it's crap 💐

That's people for you. I've got dual sense loss plus Autism. I've had people talk to me really slowly (due to what I have, you need to talk a bit slower; but not like I'm thick) or they think I can't hear them whisper that they think I'm faking it.

Of course people laugh! I can’t believe posters are trying to say you are being paranoid! I have a daughter with asd and she uses echolalia a lot so she repeats herself over and over to herself she will say phrases and sentences over and over out loud to herself, she can’t help it we’ve had teenage girls on the bus taking the piss out of her, it does happen! Can’t believe people are denying it does.

Op you may have a mild learning disability which you cannot help my lovely BUT they have huge social problems that they can help they are just rude and pathetic. Please my lovely just ignore anyone that is awful and embrace everyone that is good xx

I think some people are just rude. But it' really their loss to be that way.
I'm foreign and some people do treat me different. But that's life. No point in dwelling on other people's behaviour that you cannot change.