My son has high functioning autism and has absolutely no filter, he is very loud ALL the time, a complete extrovert always says what he thinks and thrives on structure and routine, but he is also very sensible and a complete health and safety freak and never breaks a rule. He adores school and teachers love him because he follows every rule and because he is so outgoing he does a lot of speaking at school events. Unfortunately though there are a few people (adults) in our community who really do not like him, because he has no filter he says what he thinks but where as a lot of autistic children can not read body language he can tell exactly who likes him and who doesn't. I have tried telling him that he has plenty of people that do like him but quite a lot who don't!!! He is very very intense I get this but he only respects people who respect him and if you dont respect him you get to see a different side to him. He loves winding people up and the more negative vibes he picks up on the ruder and more hyper he is to these people. I have tried explaining that if he didn't keep winding these grumpy people up they possibly would like him more. We live in a relatively small village and these group of grumpy women are now making it impossible for us as a family to join in the Christmas festivities as it just ends up being my son against them and the more they react the more he gets from it. Anyone else experienced this as I really dont know how to deal with it?? Thanks