Aspie at 14 in High School

[TheITAspie]

Hey, as the title says, I'm an aspie who, according to many neurotypicals, "suffers" from autism, I don't think I suffer from autism, I suffer from neurotypicals being jerks(sometimes when it is not even real, merely percieved) and basically I spend my days playing neurotypical and I honestly at this point hate playing neurotypical, but if I stop, I'm screwed(People paying attention to me and bugging me and such). So, yea. Being an aspie whilst being forced to deal with society is sucky(as I assume most of you know)

 

[Rocco]

Welcome aboard I hope you enjoy this website and it's community. Best wishes.

 

[TheITAspie]

Looks nice, reminds me of windows xp background, lol.

 

[Progster]

Hi, and welcome to the forum

 

[Tom]

Hi & Welcome

 

[TheITAspie]

Thank you, glad to be here.

 

[isla5mac]

Hey, as the title says, I'm an aspie who, according to many neurotypicals, "suffers" from autism, I don't think I suffer from autism, I suffer from neurotypicals being jerks(sometimes when it is not even real, merely percieved) and basically I spend my days playing neurotypical and I honestly at this point hate playing neurotypical, but if I stop, I'm screwed(People paying attention to me and bugging me and such). So, yea. Being an aspie whilst being forced to deal with society is sucky(as I assume most of you know)

I know right! It sucks that we are just expected to conform. When I'm at school the pupils just call me retarded and laugh at me when I'm struggling. I will be stimming or having a sensory overload and all people can see is that I look funny or am being distracting rather than that I'm in distress. I am doing an assembly for my whole year group next week about autism awareness month and I'm going to tell them that I have been diagnosed. I am very scared because I feel like the outcome will either be entirely positive or entirely negative. Hopefully it will take the pressure off to act neurotypical though.

 

[xudo]

Welcome

I (and many others here) do not feel that we 'suffer' from ASD. I would not be the same person that I am without Asperger's. I tend to look at it more as a gift, as there are talents that I have thanks to AS. Yes, I also have issues (terrible at eye contact, social awkwardness etc) but I still wouldn't want to be NT.

 

[As sweet as-pie]

Welcome to AC! Yup, it sure does suck to have to act NT all the time and get ridiculed if you don't, but luckily this is the one place we can all be ourselves.

 

[isla5mac]

Welcome

I (and many others here) do not feel that we 'suffer' from ASD. I would not be the same person that I am without Asperger's. I tend to look at it more as a gift, as there are talents that I have thanks to AS. Yes, I also have issues (terrible at eye contact, social awkwardness etc) but I still wouldn't want to be NT.

Yeah I agree like some days it gets me down that I'm different to a lot of other people that I am around all of the time, but when I feel like that I ask myself whether I would choose to trade off my ASD because I know that the answer to that is hell nah!

 

[EstimatedProphet]

Welcome and hang in there!