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Aspergers Is ruining my life and everything around me.

thegamerchunk1

Learning.
I am a loner. I can't hold a convos for more than 5 second and when I talk mainly gibberish comes out. I feel like there's nobody around me who feels what I feel. I'm mentally dying I have no friend but 1 dumb people who can't understand half of what I say. I want normal friends. I want a normal life. I wish my right lobe cortex was the same proportion as my left one. Plus academically, I barely get in class average. Another thing is that everyone says you'll find your soul mate one day but seriously? Me? I am a hispanic looking canadian that spends his free time trying to be social or anime/video game. Over emotional and Socially Awkward. If I die, it's going to take 5 months before someone realise it because my body is going to rot/smell. I will die alone. just like I've spent most of my life alone. Asperger's ruined my life.
 
You sound very depressed right now. I'm sorry that you're feeling this way. I can't say that I've been there exactly, but I have had many times where I felt pretty hopeless and depressed.

There is no such thing as normal. The people that you perceive as normal are also dissatisfied with many aspects of their lives and are also insecure about their place in the world, their ability to find love (soul mate).

I don't know why you believe that looking hispanic should harm your ability to find love. I am assuming that the area in which you live in Canada is pretty racist? (I have family in Toronto. That's it.)

The way you feel about a situation or the way you perceive reality is NOT reality. It's just a culmination of your feelings. And feelings change.

And with school, many people don't do well. That says very little about their ability to do well and more about the teaching methods at their school. You don't have to compare yourself to those in your class.

In fact, you don't have to compare yourself with anyone. It will only hurt you. "If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."<--This is from the Desiderata, something I read whenever I am feeling sad, depressed, less than. Here is it in full:

"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy."

Max Ehrmann, "Desiderata"


Edit to add that I've underlined the parts that I'd like to say to you.

Edit to add: About the speaking issues, you will find people who understand this at some point (this has been my experience. People mocked me in high school for it, but now, I have found people who understand). It will just be outside of high school (I figure you are in high school). People become a lot more understanding with age. I think that is due to their brains actually reaching physical maturity.
 
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Oh my goodness me, you make me want to reach out my hand and take yours and tell you it is ok!

I could be reading about myself! Some days are better than others, but yep, usually I can barely string two words together and end up, spluttering and spitting and going very red!

I have only accepted fairly recently that I am aspergic and at first, when I discovered this, I thought I was just on the tip of the spectrum, but since then, realise that I am quite high.

There are many times, I too, feel like a loser, but I am blessed in that I do have a husband who loves me, even if he is blind to what I go through and am a christian.

When I was 7, I was deemed stupid and put into a school for moderate learning difficulties, but guess what? Once I learned at 9, to read, there was no stopping me; I devoured books! Aspergers was not recognised (well in girls) when I was a child and so, it was assumed I was stupid and thus, treated as such, which meant, that I grew up believing I had nothing going for me.

Oh wow, do not go there with over emotional! It is the flipping bane of my life! Just yesterday, I had a meltdown and only in the evening, did I manage to calm down, which actually, is thanks to being on here!

It is very easy to let being aspergic take over our lives, but that is because we think negatively; whereas I already detected something very intelligent about you. No, NT that I know of, can talk so casually about the brain; that takes someone fairly clever to do that and I bet you anything, that if you give yourself a chance, we can unravel some amazing talents you have and teach you to see the positives from being an aspie, FOR THERE ARE POSITIVES.

I feel much like you, for no one in my life, knows me fully and certainly not interested in understanding what is going on, so despite being married, I too, can feel dreadfully alone and frightened!

I used to say that I was useless at everything; not one single talent, did I have and then, out of the blue, I sort of laughed at my own irony, because if that were true, that I am useless at EVERYTHING, then doesn't that make me brilliant, to have done everything, there is in life and fail? Not even super talented people, can boast to having tried EVERYTHING! Funnily enough, not soon after that catharsis, I discovered cross stitching and my work, looks like paintings!

WE ARE HERE FOR YOU!
 
I'd seriously speak to your GP and try to go about counseling specifically for people on the spectrum (assuming you've officially been diagnosed). You need that 'you are not alone' reinforcement and some help in overcoming and challenging the negativity in your life. Doing something like this to help yourself could help you feel a bit better because you'll see some improvements (small or big) and feel glad that things are changing somewhat.
 
I am a loner. I can't hold a convos for more than 5 second and when I talk mainly gibberish comes out. I feel like there's nobody around me who feels what I feel. I'm mentally dying I have no friend but 1 dumb people who can't understand half of what I say. I want normal friends. I want a normal life. I wish my right lobe cortex was the same proportion as my left one. Plus academically, I barely get in class average. Another thing is that everyone says you'll find your soul mate one day but seriously? Me? I am a hispanic looking canadian that spends his free time trying to be social or anime/video game. Over emotional and Socially Awkward. If I die, it's going to take 5 months before someone realise it because my body is going to rot/smell. I will die alone. just like I've spent most of my life alone. Asperger's ruined my life.

I feel the same way as you every single day of my life. I don't even have any friends outside of my family because no one wants to listen to me for more than five minutes, and I made mostly bad grades in school. Sadly there isn't much I can do to help you except tell you to try and stay positive, don't let it get you down, there's a good friend out there for you somewhere, you just have to keep looking and trying.
 
I don't know why you believe that looking hispanic should harm your ability to find love. I am assuming that the area in which you live in Canada is pretty racist? (I have family in Toronto. That's it.)
I don't know where the OP lives, but the province of Nova Scotia I consider have much higher racism compare to Ontario. I never lived in any other provinces besides these two. I recommend a person if your not white, don't move to Nova Scotia. Don't get me wrong, there people around the world comes here, but I don't consider Nova Scotia cultural friendly compare to other parts of Canada.
 
I am a loner. I can't hold a convos for more than 5 second and when I talk mainly gibberish comes out. I feel like there's nobody around me who feels what I feel. I'm mentally dying I have no friend but 1 dumb people who can't understand half of what I say. I want normal friends. I want a normal life. I wish my right lobe cortex was the same proportion as my left one. Plus academically, I barely get in class average. Another thing is that everyone says you'll find your soul mate one day but seriously? Me? I am a hispanic looking canadian that spends his free time trying to be social or anime/video game. Over emotional and Socially Awkward. If I die, it's going to take 5 months before someone realise it because my body is going to rot/smell. I will die alone. just like I've spent most of my life alone. Asperger's ruined my life.
I know how you feel, because there was a time in my life when I felt the same way. You say that AS ruined your life, but it will get better as you get older. I am a old Aspie and at this point in my life I like being a Aspie. I can tell you this, if there was a cure and it was offered to me, I would not hesitate to say NO!
 
Also, I would like to add that Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy is something that has helped me and continues to help me perceive my situations and myself in more beneficial ways. Here are the most common irrational beliefs, according to Albert Ellis, the guy who created REBT:
  • It is a dire necessity for adult humans to be loved or approved by virtually every significant other person in their community.
  • One absolutely must be competent, adequate and achieving in all important respects or else one is an inadequate, worthless person.
  • People absolutely must act considerately and fairly and they are damnable villains if they do not. They are their bad acts.
  • It is awful and terrible when things are not the way one would very much like them to be.
  • Emotional disturbance is mainly externally caused and people have little or no ability to increase or decrease their dysfunctional feelings and behaviors.
  • If something is or may be dangerous or fearsome, then one should be constantly and excessively concerned about it and should keep dwelling on the possibility of it occurring.
  • One cannot and must not face life's responsibilities and difficulties and it is easier to avoid them.
  • One must be quite dependent on others and need them and you cannot mainly run one's own life.
  • One's past history is an all-important determiner of one's present behavior and because something once strongly affected one's life, it should indefinitely have a similar effect.
  • Other people's disturbances are horrible and one must feel upset about them.
  • There is invariably a right, precise and perfect solution to human problems and it is awful if this perfect solution is not found.
So, maybe check out REBT. A book or a website and a determination to figure out ways to feel better should suffice.
 
I am a loner. I can't hold a convos for more than 5 second and when I talk mainly gibberish comes out. I feel like there's nobody around me who feels what I feel. I'm mentally dying I have no friend but 1 dumb people who can't understand half of what I say. I want normal friends. I want a normal life. I wish my right lobe cortex was the same proportion as my left one. Plus academically, I barely get in class average. Another thing is that everyone says you'll find your soul mate one day but seriously? Me? I am a hispanic looking canadian that spends his free time trying to be social or anime/video game. Over emotional and Socially Awkward. If I die, it's going to take 5 months before someone realise it because my body is going to rot/smell. I will die alone. just like I've spent most of my life alone. Asperger's ruined my life.

If you're british, have a watch of this;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06vkhr5/the-age-of-loneliness
 

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