Ever feel like an alien at school?

[AspieOtaku]

I felt like this every day in my school days.

 

[FreeDiver]

I think the more appropriate question to ask is, "Who doesn't feel like an alien at school?". Considering that almost 99% of everyone here on this forum has been through this situation. It would be interesting to find out who was lucky enough to not have to endure this hell.

 

[Mr Allen]

We once did a spelling test in High School, they asked us to spell Alien, this idiot stuck his hand up, pointed to me and said "He's an Alien!" so I turned round and said to him "You die at break!"

 

[Judge]

In late grammar, middle and high school absolutely.

In college? Not at all.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

I didn't really ever give it much thought honestly. The first year of the secondary school was tough but I found a group of acquaintances I could hang around and I eventually made some friends out of people who didn't like me at first. I just mimicked other people and that was enough. Still, I wasn't the nicest person at school but at the same time I got my fair share of bullying, school can be rough.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Human nature is attack those you do not understand and treat like crap, imo to hell with humanity, I hope we take over and give then a reason to be scared and give them the same medicine they have given us and see how they like it! Time for an invasion and show how inferior and obsolete they are and that they are being replaced via evolution since the rate of autistics are on the rise at a rapid rate that soon we will be the majority. We will be the future and they will be the past and be at our mercy and begging us for forgiveness and being the better people in the end we will forgive them and only then will they understand.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Also when your bullied and late for class the teachers side with the bullies and punish you instead!I wish bullies never existed and sometimes I wish the bullies would get bullied and taught a lesson!

 

[Coupe]

I totally felt like an alien all during my years of school...although (as hard as it is to believe) it was less so for most of high school. However, I'm pretty confident that that was mostly due to how hard I had to work in order to "pass" both at school AND home, which I believe later proved to be to my detriment. Then it was on to college and I totally felt like an alien for most of my time there, except for a few instances in which I felt unconditionally accepted and like I had real, genuine friends...it never lasted very long, but I remember those moments with fondness.

 

[Nightingale121]

I wrote that during my time at high school (2012):

When I walk through the city and I'm still alone,
then I know that there is something I don't know.
All connected, all together, but I'm still alone.
How to come into the net?*
I don't know.

And again I feel like an alien.
It's not my world, it all seems wrong,
but nevertheless I like that I'm born.**

It was written at the time when I finally started to try to accept that I am not like others and shouldn't care too much about it. I was still lonely and felt alien-like, but tried to concentrate on my own interests and enjoy that. It was hard, especially because there were times when I felt unmotivated to do anything, even the things I usually liked to do. I just had no energy for something after school. Furthermore other students made fun of me because of some of my hobbies, which isn't very motivating.
I saw school rather as something I had to finish and not as any kind of social environment anymore. At least I tried to do so. It didn't work all the time and I felt bad at school as well, so I was happy when it was over.

* I felt like other people were all in a kind of "net" which makes it easiy for them to connect in a natural way, while I was standing outside and had to make an effort for those things because I didn't have that natural connection in the net. This feeling still applies to me when I find it hard to socialize and connect with others.

** This line shows the "I shouldn't care and just enjoy my life the way I want to". It's a rather hopeful line (when I think about the time I wrote it). I think I am better with that now and don't feel as bad as I did when I was at school. I have more fun engaging in my interests again and can see the good parts of my personality a bit more, even though I still feel like it's difficult to deal with people and social stuff quite often.

 

[Suzanne]

Yes, all through my childhood, teenage years and adulthood. Especially with my own sex.

 

[Spiller]

Always have been.. still am!

 

[edwardstpowell]

I sometimes felt like an alien in Primary school. But when I reached my secondary school years I was placed in an all autism school and later a fully autistic college too. I am 21 years old now, i no longer feel like an alien, but i can sympathize with you greatly.

 

[Maelstrom]

Same except I get to be the Alien Monster now...Sigh! even tho I learned to be very NT nice!
It never ends it seems....I totally get Lex Luthers point of View....Superman gets born great handsome powerful and loved...Lex Luther has to claw and fight just to get a little teaspoon of respect through fear.

The world is unfair everything is backwards!

 

[Ronin82]

I never felt like an alien, but I did feel totally out of place as early as kindergarten. In grade school, my recess fantasies consisted of Capt. Kirk and party beaming me up to the Enterprise, because i was the only one who could save them and the earth and make everything right again. I would literally spend my entire recess alone in the woods, thinking out these storylines to their full conclusions. i had fun, but felt like crap when it didn't actually happen.

But then, a common phrase I heard in church was that we are all not of this world, we are aliens here, so it didn't bother me to think I didn't belong here...

 

[Maelstrom]

I never felt like an alien, but I did feel totally out of place as early as kindergarten. In grade school, my recess fantasies consisted of Capt. Kirk and party beaming me up to the Enterprise, because i was the only one who could save them and the earth and make everything right again. I would literally spend my entire recess alone in the woods, thinking out these storylines to their full conclusions. i had fun, but felt like crap when it didn't actually happen.

But then, a common phrase I heard in church was that we are all not of this world, we are aliens here, so it didn't bother me to think I didn't belong here...

I loved to make up stories too....I had a minature world for awhile full of wars and little people. sometimes I made tiny toys to match the world.

 

[AspieOtaku]

I think the more appropriate question to ask is, "Who doesn't feel like an alien at school?". Considering that almost 99% of everyone here on this forum has been through this situation. It would be interesting to find out who was lucky enough to not have to endure this hell.

I wish i can track down all the bullies who have bullied me in the past and bully them back and tell them how pathetic they truly are! I am alot bigger and stronger than I was in the past working as a reciever at Google, chances are they are working at a gas station, so i can repay em a visit and tell them how sad and pathetic and worthless they are and how awesome I am!