If someone has met one person with autism, they have met one person with autism. I mean there is nothing to say you do/did the exact same things the autistic individual such posters have had a relationship with or met....unless of course you legitimately feel that is very close to how you come off. Also having autism does not make one immune to being a jerk...what is to say in some of these cases the person is acting like a jerk and it has nothing to do with misunderstandings of their autistic traits?

I really don't think there is a whole lot of point to apologizing for things you aren't aware...also its probably best to apologize more immeadiately after the fact. Like say you say something not meaning to be rude but the person takes it like you where being rude then apologizing would be appropriate...but if you where to go up to someone in your life and say 'sorry for anything I might have done, I have autism.' that might be over-doing it because that is sort of like apologizing for being you.

Also though I doubt the neurotypicals are always in the right when it comes to every single interaction...sometimes they might take something as rude that another neurotypical wouldn't see as rude, sometimes they come off rude and inconsiderate without realizing it or they had a bad day and are irritable.