How do you get along with your peers?

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I really don't get along with most of my peers at school. I find them to be inflexible and opinionated. I won't talk to them unless I'm talked to first. Sometimes, it's hard because I've recently lost the ability to pronounce certain words, and they ask me if I'm alright.

A lot of them like to start arguments in which I respond, "It takes two to argue. Now there's one..." and I'll stop talking to them.

Not very well. Most of them hate me because I am so insensitive and claim I am purposely starting conflicts. If I tried to explain AS to them It would only make matters worse. Most of them view autism as being a disease that destroys your brain and there are no intelligent autistics in the world, and AS is viewed as automatically being an emo. People can be very discriminative sometimes.

Same here, and the things they talk about are stupid, annoying and pointless.

Well, they will never be shaken from the stereotype unless someone interferes. You could break the stereotype for them. If THEY know your a coherent rational human being, and you tell them your AS, maybe they'll change their tone.

Ha! I guess I'm not the only one who th*t that in high school.

I talk to very few of my peers (I do have a few...um...3 friends). They (peers, not friends) usually assume I am stuck up and emo (both untrue).

Teachers, however, are a different story. They all like me and I can talk (for the most part) to them easily. They wait for me to get the words out, respond, etc. They understand.