Ai_Ling
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Age: 24
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| Im pretty sure I was considered weird in highschool mainly cause I didnt talk. As for college, Im not so much seen as a freak but I still dont fit in. Its like everywhere I go I dont fit in. Its can get really fustrating. I try to hangout with a clique and I somehow always end up on the fringes. |
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hadrian_f
Blue Jay
Joined: May 19, 2011
Posts: 89
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't know if I'm considered a freak, but I am obviously an outcast. The class I'm in is one of those few classes where everyone talks to everyone and is friends with everyone, that is, if you don't count invisible me. |
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AspieOrNot
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: May 17, 2011
Posts: 41
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 9:53 am Post subject: |
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| Well, I get "You're weird" from times to times but I am rarely being said that I'm a freak. People consider me nerdy, weak and similar, but I never bother about it. Even so, I'm good with my schoolmates. |
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murasaki_ahiru
Sea Gull
Joined: Jun 07, 2008
Age: 31
Posts: 238
Location: Australia
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| Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| A little bit, but to tell the truth I have a lot of respect from my teachers and classmates for my honesty and intelligence. Ive been up front about my AS and associated 'quriks' from the start so peoples shock if I say something unexpected is greatly reduced. |
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libraryseraph
Butterfly
Joined: May 17, 2011
Posts: 16
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| Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 1:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes. Most of my classmates in high school probably know me as being very smart, but I can also be scary when someone gets something wrong. I spend most off my time reading, yell out answers, have corrected the teachers, and have called people idiots very loudly. |
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Sirius
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Apr 17, 2010
Posts: 63
Location: Fresno, CA
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:07 am Post subject: |
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Well I was polite like an old fashioned gentleman, so that bought me some slack but then again, I am 6'3" with a large head and when I walk around with a dead pan look, some guys but almost always girls, took a creep out, defensive posture towards me.
That went for high school and college. |
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tangomike
Phoenix
Joined: Oct 09, 2010
Age: 23
Posts: 674
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| Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:58 am Post subject: |
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I was the quiet but polite Asian guy not many people knew. The kind of person everybody knows by sight but doesnt know personally.I was in sports teams and all my friends were football players and wrestlers like myself so nobody ever f*ked with me. I used to be made fun of cus iw as weirder in my middle school days and i was overweight....but as i got into high school I lost the weight to sports and acted more like a regular jock (with nerdy interests like Rome Total War! Counter Strike ). I bet people didnt know what to think of me!
Quiet Asian guy, well built, slightly weird but has the entire football team to back him up if anyone messed with me, spent most days after school in the weight room or on the track running....but spent all my other time playin video games. I was literally two OPPOSITE ends of the high school clique spectrum. |
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AdamFrancis
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Jun 14, 2011
Posts: 53
Location: Earth-Europe-CR-Prague
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| Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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Classmate wrote me that she doesn´t feel like answering my e-mail, because I don´t great them in class and do not thank them them PERSONALLY for e-mails, I feel really down now, I thought I am pretending rather well how very normal I am.., on the other hand I am not sure if she is not a bit wierd herself, I´ve studied eticket quite a bit and never read that one is supposed to thank for letter in person - that what we have letters for, no?? - am confused ..again. 
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sfreyj
Snowy Owl
Joined: Sep 19, 2010
Age: 20
Posts: 153
Location: Australia
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 10:56 am Post subject: |
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At the first high school I went to, I was. I met my only friend in an 'Orientation' class, and we are friends to this day, even though I moved away. We were both nerdy/weird and stayed at the fringes of the school (in the library).
In the second high school I went to, I arrived mid-year, so there was no orientation program to make friends for me. I was forced among the popular kids, but they didn't talk to me and kept me to the edge of their group. I eventually started spending my breaks in the library alone, reading encyclopaedias on cats. After a few months, some equally weird people noticed that I was alone, and approached me—and again, we've been friends ever since. Looking back on it, I realise how fortunate I was over my entire school life to have had friends made for me. If it wasn't for that, I would have just remained by myself indefinitely.
I'm in university now, and I most certainly don't fit in. Mostly people don't talk to me unless they're forced to for group activities. One girl did approach me, though, and we are now casual friends—she has a boyfriend with Asperger's also, and she thought she recognised the symptoms in me. My friends from high school also go to this university, but we have different courses and schedules and rarely collide. I find my primary objective at university is to go home as swiftly as possible. I don't like to stick around—it's far too crowded and noisy. |
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AdamFrancis
Yellow-bellied Woodpecker
Joined: Jun 14, 2011
Posts: 53
Location: Earth-Europe-CR-Prague
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| Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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I find my primary objective at university is to go home as swiftly as possible. I don't like to stick around—it's far too crowded and noisy.[/quote]
sfreyj, You are lucky to be in local Uni and not living in campus.
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MagicMeerkat
meerkat
Joined: Jun 12, 2011
Age: 26
Posts: 1347
Location: Kalahari Desert
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:55 am Post subject: |
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| The fact that I am 24 and still in high school freaks plenty of people out so yes, I am considered a freak. I had a nervous breakdown at sixteen and had to stop school for a while in order to recover. I never learned anything in public school and even though I was officaly in fith grade, academicly I was still at second grade level. I was behind pretty much in everything. Mentaly, I think I am about 16 or 17 anyway. I was one of those kids Temple Grandin talks about that needs to skip adolesence and go straight to adulthood. I think I also needed an extended childhood to make up for the one I never had when I was supposed to have had one becuase all the bullying I received made my childhood a living hell. So there, that's why I am 24 and still in high school. |
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ShutUpMeg
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Apr 16, 2011
Age: 25
Posts: 33
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| Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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I was mostly invisible in high school and college is no different, but when my peers got to know me, yes.
People pretty much avoid me in college. Makes me not want to go back. |
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BadBones
Tufted Titmouse
Joined: Mar 15, 2011
Posts: 27
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, pretty much... |
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jesuslittleaspie77
Hummingbird
Joined: Jun 21, 2011
Posts: 19
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 8:47 am Post subject: |
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| I get called weird, freak and do from time to time now at uni by people i walk past and one of my class mates said i was. I used to think it was my fault and often get depressed about it but looking at what everyone else is saying I guess its an aspie thing and people are just not very accepting |
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Beaux
Sea Gull
Joined: Jun 25, 2011
Age: 17
Posts: 206
Location: Mississippi, USA
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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I'm about to start my sophomore year in high school and I don't know what others think about me. Certainly many see me as eccentric, but due to the fact that I am a geeky vegetarian who loves classic rock and video games other than Call of Duty (nothing wrong with that, but I count people who only play Call of Duty and declare themselves "hardcore" are just as casual as those who play Peggle. And there's nothing wrong with Peggle. I love Popcap games) and the fact that I'm not a Baptist or country boy make it hard to make friends. I have a total of 3 friends in school, one of which just graduated high school.
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