My story as of; Today

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Hello people of WP.
I am new to this community and thought I might introduce myself. I, in fact just recently started considering the possibility of being an Aspie last week.
I realized about last year that I am different than everyone else, because that's when I started high school, which seems to be the time when your "Social Capabilities" become more evident.
Everyday I would look at the other people and think "Why is it so easy for them" I had friends at church whowere my best friends in the world, but it was so frusterating because I was not able to see any of them for more than twice a week. I fit in more with them, but even around them I can sometimes tell I am different. Well I just eventually found a couple of people who seemed to enjoy my company, so I made it through the rest of my freshman year. This year as a sophomore, I was on the tennis team, at my banquet, it became very clear to me again just how socially inapt I am. I came home that night and cried, and my mom sent me to a website that gave a list of traits of people with ASD. I felt I could relate to quite a few of them (She also tried to convince me of this several months ago, but then I didn't believe it, this time I did) So now, I am just waiting to be diagnosed. I am happy though I found an answer as to why I am different.
Thank you for reading my story, and I hope to become a part of the community.

hiya ZT welcome to the club

It feels really great at some point to figure out why you're different, whether it's good or bad.

I'm diagnosed with AS. I'm in 8th grade. I was told by my counselor that the reason that I am slowly feeling even more excluded is because the people around me are becoming even more involved with the social world and that it's becoming an important role to them, while for me, I am not picking up on it. If she says that's why, and I have no other reason, I suppose that is so then. We're starting to read a book about social skills, because she said that I need it now, even though I am not at the point of which I am super interested in it. She said that some aspies my age are really trying to fit in and get all of the information about social skills that they can, but I am "not quite there yet."
She's implying that I will be there, but I don't want to. I do want her to read the book to me though, because my friend's mom made her read a book like that, and it had things that were funny like, "getting dressed," as if we don't know how to put on clothes.

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