Too unique to fit in with any group

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I've never fit in anywhere, and probably never will.
Hope you find some like-minds, nick007.

I know the feeling, kinda.
I feel like I can fit into many groups because I have things in common, like runners, and artists, and vegetarians, and mormons, but in the end I just feel like I am different and even if I work hard to be good friends with everyone, I will always be just the weirdo that is too extreme and etc.

To me it sounds like you're lacking passion in life, and that is what usually draws people together.

Yes my personality is too unique to fit into any group. I totally can feel the OP. It has a lot to do with having a bunch of things different about you. I'm black, have asperger's, and have a bunch of phyisical differences mostly with my mouth but I also have glaucoma. Most Black people can't accept the fact that someone has asperger's. but when I go to an aspie group I am usually the only black person and I experience life completely different because of that. If i hang around people of another race they tend to start saying racial slurs to me (not the aspies), and if I hang out with black people they tend to think im weird and start fights. the only groups i fit in to are the ones with common interests because although the people may be cruel, they tend to be too focused and amazed by their common interests to even notice that I'm black or awkward.

Just in two times I felt like fit into a group. SciFi (Star Trek) Fan Group and Gothic. Star Trek is dying out and most of my life I have been to very many conventions and hanging out with other fans. Very many freaks and nerds are to find in such ST-Fan Groups. But even there it is not easy to come along without knowing instinctivly how to socialize with them.

Gothic in Germany is much different than in other countries. But still, ah they claim to be very individualistic, but they are not! Same social group behavior as anywhere else and there I cannot fit in. So I know about not fitting in! I am analyzing social rules and group dynamics and such, but I cannot follow them myself. I am not a follower, not a leader, not an ass kreeper. I react different at what someone expect me to, I reply different, often I do not reflect myself close by, but have to analyze my behavior afterwards, I cannot cope with critic, I often overreact. So I puzzle others a lot when being in a group. I wish I could make friends, but I have to meet others in order to get to know them. But how when I do not like to join groups out of bad experience?

If only you had Asperger's social groups to meet in where you live, like I do, it would change a lot.

Would it change anything realy?

"What SI do you have?" "Oh, I have geography." "And You?" "I love math.", "Oh ok."...

How many aspies do you have to meet 'till you meet someone with the same SI as yourself have? How would you talk with others about a topic you have no interesest in? It woud be the same as with NTs talking among, I cannot join in, because A they would not stand how I talk about it, too differenciated and such, and B mostly they have many topics and interests, but none so deep as we aspies used to have, or just none of there topics are interesting to me. Thats my experience with NTs.

In any group I am bound to feel like a spectator/outsider to some degree -- there are certainly some where it is more pronounced than others but I always feel like there is something setting me apart somehow. But I don't see myself as too unique; rather I would say that it is difficult for me to fully adopt the viewpoint of being part of a group, if that makes any sense.

I will say that the closest by far that I've gotten to feeling like I "belong" has been with groups made up of identifiable individuals. e.g., I really don't feel like a part of the abstract "community" of all the world's LGBT people that people often talk about, but I do feel to some extent like I am a part of my university's LGBT student group since some of its members are people with whom I have some level of meaningful connection. Once most of a group's members are anonymous and undifferentiated, it becomes exponentially harder for me to feel at all like a part of it.

That said, I don't know if I'll ever truly feel like I belong to a group -- I have even started and led groups and yet never felt fully part of them. And I think I might be OK with that. I value relationships with individuals much more highly than group membership. It is a lot easier to be a sort of peripheral member of a group than it is to forge a meaningful relationship with an individual, but the latter is, to me, infinitely more rewarding.

who wants to fit into a group.

when did aspies become a fashionable sub-culture?

shoo....

The title of this thread is the definition of myself. It's why I try to hide as much of myself and what I really like as possible, simply because when I do, I'm given weird responses or people change the subject.

I'm also unique but I don't really wish to fit into a group.

I feel the same way...I dont completely fit in with any group and decided that honestly nobody does...we just sacerfice a little corner of who we are to fit in those holes.

but here is my reasons that I dont fit

I have PDD-with classic autistic traits (I have a wild imagination and engaged in imaginary play extensivly as a kid, so thats why I dont fit totally in the classic autism critera, even though the rests fits me.

I have a 45 decible hearing loss in both ears, enough to make me legally deaf, but apparently not enough to be welcomed as part of the deaf comunity (they are very clique-ish about who they believe is "deaf enough")

I am not athiest, but my beliefs are totally my own...so to the church I am a heritic; to the athiests, I am an idiot

I am very creative and artistic but I find artistic snobbery to be really anoying and inmature, neverless rampant through the art community.

I am bisexual which means that the straight people think I am a freak, and the gay people think I am a fence rider.

I am very tomboyish which means I dont fit in with girlie girls, but guys since I was 11 considered me to be a girlie girl. I liked it when I was a kid and played with the boys as "one of the guys"

I like snakes but dont fit in to the snake crowd cause I dont think the large constritors should be sold as pets because they are too dangerous then get released to the wild and destroy the habitat

I am neither totally conservative or totally progressive...mostly progressive and somewhat conservative...but honestly I think they are really one party doing WWF style political fighting to make people think they are 2 parties. I vote for the individual who steps aside...if there is one.

I am mostly asexual....but wouldn't rule it out completely if I met the right person

I dont have any specific music taste...I just like what sounds good to me.

I like to read, but I usually dont like to read novels as I cant keep my interest in them as much, but to reader clubs I cant really talk about the lastest book cause I havent read it.