Did you ever have another aspie in your class (school)?

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Did you have any other aspies in your school (especially in your class) back at the time you were still students? Even if you didn't know back then what it was? When I was in elementary school, in my class there was that boy who - I am sure of it now - also had ASD: he was hopeless when it comes to his social skills, didn't understand some social rules from what I noticed, had dyspraxia, dyslexia etc. Now I know what disorder those are the symptoms of - and I am sure he was one of us. Back then, I was sure he was just shy - especially that his parents were alcoholics so I thought he was maybe mistreated and abused by them when they were drunk but no, now I know he was not neurotypical either. And what about you?

Not sure, but I'm sure one girl who was in most of my classes in high school had Asperger's. She had Epilepsy and needed a support worker or some other trusted adult with her all the time in case she had a seizure. But I think she also had Asperger's, as she quite noticeably had difficulties with communicating and making friends. But that might have been because she was statemented due to Epilepsy and needed a support worker with her in class at all times, and I know how much that can socially isolate you from your peers and make you appear ret*d even though you're not.

Otherwise all the girls in my class seemed to be quite intelligent NTs. I befriended a new girl that joined our school when I was 13 and she was a bit socially awkward and I seemed to be the only person interested in her, but all I did was giggle nervously around her at first. I wish I could have been a bit more of a supportive friend to her. Well, I was, but I seemed to just be myself too much and not make much effort to dedicate my time with friendships. I was lucky that it wasn't in my nature to be bullyish or anything like that, but I do wish I could have been more enthusiastic. I do remember talking to her a lot once I knew her well, but then I blew it when other people began bullying me because I was hanging around with her. I got sensitive to it and stupidly moved my seat away from her when she came and sat next to me in one of the classes. She got upset (rightly so), and done the same to me in the next class. And because nobody in the science class knew the context of the situation, they all just felt sorry for me, which made me feel so guilty.

I really wish I could have been better at school. I should have worn a metaphorical mask more, but I was too busy trying to mask my undiagnosed ADHD in classes, that I forgot to focus on my diagnosis AS. Ugh, stupid kid I was.

I was probably the most autistic one in all my classes but I was too much in my own head to really notice if someone else seemed to be on the spectrum unless it was very obvious. Some classmates did have learning issues related to dyslexia & AD[H]D which I also have. I went to a small school for dyslexia from middle of 6th through 8th grade & I was the biggest loner there.

However after I graduated high-school I spent a little over half a year at a place for people with vision issues to learn life skills(I was born with a rare low vision disorder that wasn't diagnosed till my senior year of high-school) & one of the girls there had classic autism & had a caretaker person who tagged along with her.

I remember there were some awkward kids back in school that dressed in an unfashionable way, had bad hair cuts and acted very un-cool. In retrospective they had probably Aspergers. They seemed very tense and made me feel uncomfortable. I never thought of them as similiar to me. Instead I distanced myself from them and tried to blend in the best I could.

I suspect yes very much so. When I was in early elementary school I was in special ed.

I dunno
I think school was probably more fun back then before people got separated and singled out and labelled

Thought to add that the schools I went to after 4th grade till I graduated high-school were private schools that my parents paid a lot of money for me to attend. I went to them because I had more problems in public school though I had LOTS of problems at the Catholic school I went to from 5th through half of 6th but not the Catholic high-school I went to. Since autism can run in families & autistics tend to have more problems finding gainfull employment, it's quite possible that most parents of autistic kids would not of been able to afford the private schools. It's possible that I would have been more likely to have autistic classmates if I kept going to public schools.

In 1999 there was a girl about whom I heard that she has autism for some time in my class and I remember that once she started a conversation with me somewhat further from the school and it was a calm conversation.

In one of my later schools there was another girl in my class who seemed atypical to me, initially I supposed that she has schizotypal personality disorder but some weeks ago I saw her as a member of one of social media groups for adults with autism.

I'm not sure. Too asocial to bother.
Yet, from that, unlikely.

And if there was, knowing how aspies tend to be socially anxious while I stood out violently, they'll likely fear me than approach me.

Other ND kids I encountered as classmates; gifted kids, intellectually disabled or developmentaly delayed, ones with seizures, and definately variations of allistic ADHDers who's been bullying me (and are all male) by provoking me...

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In Junior High (9th grade) I had an autistic classmate. Of course at that time nobody used the word Autism to describe him. He was more impacted than I by autism. I guess you could say he was "autistic enough" to be recognized as having a disability, whereas I was ostracized but basically held personally responsible for not getting along. He was 16 while still in 9th grade and drove a VW Beetle with manual shift. After Junior High he attended a vocational school. Years later, I leaned he'd gotten married although the marriage didn't last. His autism was profound in the sense that I never had a "real" conversation with him. He could basically just say things related to his interests or repeat favorite sayings he thought clever. When I had an autistic girlfriend I had the same problem to a much lesser extent. Very little discussion of each others' most private thoughts and feelings.