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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 4:29 am    Post subject: Who has NT friends? (If non-NT tell me how they treat you) Reply with quote

My NTs friends are kind to me and respect my difference and I am forever grateful for that. And my Non Nt friends. We are like siblings. Siblings who are closer than brothers and they will forever be in my heart.

How do your friends treat you?
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

They treat me like I deserve. As though im pretty much normal.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 9:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The way ALL people who deserve it should be treated
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My experience with NT friends is varied. The ones closest to me have taken time to research Asperger's on their own to better understand my nature. I am very grateful for those friends.

Other NT friends are more like "drinking buddies" i.e. we hang out and ride bikes and drink beer and joke about a lot of stuff so my Aspiness doesn't seem to bother them...I actually think most of them appreciate my different perception of the world. It makes mundane occurences more interesting to them maybe?
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How can they be like siblings but closer than brothers? I understand if they are closer than your brothers but that is not what is stated.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 12:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My NT friends treat me as a friend. None of them know about my Asperger's, though. I'm not ashamed of it, I just see no need to tell them.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 4:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MY NT friends treat me pretty well, just as friends should do. I only really have a couple and we're very close, although due to my tendency to get a little scared/paranoid about just about everything at times, especially in social situations, I do often worry that they don't see me in the same way and would prefer to have a different friend if they could. In reality that's just me, though- they've never really done anything to indicate that. If I ever worry/get stressed about anything they tend to ignore me, but otherwise we're fine. I still rarely feel quite at the same level as them, though, unless I'm meeting up with just one friend- any more and I tend to get pushed to the edge of the group and feel excluded. Confused

But these are all my defects rather than theirs. As friends, they're great and pretty accepting of me. They'd probably be accepting of me and my differences even if I chose to let myself out of my shell more, but I tend to be too scared/pessimistic to really let myself do that.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Behaviors of my NT friends are really varied. Some of them treat me like a normal person despite of knowing that I have AS. And some who know about my Asperger's think that they have to explain literally everything for me (including how to talk about our low self esteem and bad eating habits etc. - I don't need advices like that)Some don't know and treat me like a little girl, others also treat me normally. A few fashionable - popular - having cute boyfriends - interested in girly stuff girls think that I am "amazing, because they would not pretend to be such a nerd all the time." (sic!) (I am not sure why girls of that kind want to spend their time with me. I am almost sure that they are not interested in neurodegeneration.) And, finally, my best friend Tosia says that she is jealous of my Asperger's and she wants to have it too. She is the only NT I know who says such things.
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PostPosted: Fri May 11, 2012 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm jealous. I have one friend, and he's an Aspie also. We aren't exactly super close, but he's a pretty nice guy.

I used to have some NT friends in elementary school. They could be a bit self-centered, like any child of that age, but we got along well, and had fun.
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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2012 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most of my friends are NT and they treat me like I'm a normal person, who is obsessed with Harry Potter....
(They like Twilight.... Why do I bother?)
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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2012 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

All of my NT friends have something else to them. My best friend was diagnosed with ADD, a guy I know has an anger issue, and can only stay calm around his girlfriend, who is bipolar.

I don't do so well around the typical NT. Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2012 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

avatarowl wrote:
Most of my friends are NT and they treat me like I'm a normal person, who is obsessed with Harry Potter....
(They like Twilight.... Why do I bother?)


Twihards they are like physics hard to understand but physics actually makes sense
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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2012 3:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most of my friends are NT, I have very few friends who are on the spectrum, those friends of mine who are, don't make any effort to hide their conditions, which I envy, since we're all in the same social group and only one of those Aspies (at least I think he's Aspie, his sister mentioned his autism and he doesnt really fit anything else, though he does have ADHD too) and a few NT friends know about me. The other Aspie is more HFA, but I'm not sure how HFA she is, we don't really talk and all I know about her it is that some of our friends are actually her support workers.

They treat me fairly well, but some of them tend to make a bit of fun of me when I say things that made sense in my head, but actually turned out to be insulting and I never realised.... My biggest issue with them, everyone in the entire world, is that I'll say something and noone will respond or acknowledge that I spoke, it's insanely frustrating.
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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2012 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i have a lot of nt friends but i do sit with the autism class at lunch even though im only an aspie, not an autistic person and i saw my math teacher at stage today i was like,"well tht breaks the theory about teachers living at school" and we both laughed and i gave her a hug she is my gifted teacher and there are only 8 kids in my math class and ive had her for 2 yrs now so she and i r really close she's almost a mom Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun May 13, 2012 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm undiagnosed...and will probably never be diagnosed. My friends have kind've just accepted me for who I am. So...yeah...I don't really have very many friends, AS or NT.
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