What happend what is the school's ignorance or mine?

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my name is Will I'm 17 years old and I suffer from aspergers, so I wanted to audition for the school talent show doing stand up comedy and the audition was to be on a Thursday during school but we got snowed in so the auditions were cancelled so I waited for the anouncement for the reschedule day of the auditions nothing was announced so I ask teachers, friends, and the office people but they didn't know, when I heard during morning anouncements that the names of the people who got in the school talent show were outsine of teacher's room when I heard that I flew into a rage, the fricken school screwed me over and lied to me now probably my last chance to be funny and be popular at school is now gone I can't audition because I'll be very busy during my senior year I'm was thinking about suing the school for pain and suffering but My dad who is a lawyer wouldn't hear it because he thought it was a waste of time even though he felt sorry for me, so what do I do now I want to get back at the school somehow for costing me 2 weeks of practice time and crushing my hopes of ever being in a talent show and for once in my life winning something

That's a real drag, man, I'm sorry to hear about that, I know that had to be incredibly frustrating and disappointing. I don't think you should waste your time getting back at anybody though, revenge only escalates conflict, it never resolves it, no matter how cool and satisfying the movies make it look.

Don't obsess on the idea that this is your last chance to achieve your goal - dude, you are very young, you've got a lot of opportunities ahead of you, either to do stand-up, or excel at other things. And I know you may not be able to imagine it now, in the long run (and I'm talking about as years pass) you might even decide that missing this event spared you the humiliation and pain of publicly failing - I'm not saying you would have - just that any time you step on a stage in front of a live audience, its a risk you take, and that's something all comics experience, either sooner or later - a dead, or hostile audience.

I got into radio as a teenager and while it was a blast and I did it for years, it was a great opportunity to do the kind of stuff stand-ups do, without my audience actually sitting there in the same room with me. I'm not sure I could have emotionally handled trying to be funny while people sat there staring at me in silent boredom, as Bill Hicks described it "Like a dog that's just been shown a card trick." And hecklers, holy jeez! I go blank when the servers at Subway ask what I want on my salad, I can't imagine trying to think on my feet fast enough to handle an obnoxious drunk interrupting my routine.

Anyhow, if that's what you really feel driven and destined to do, you will find other ways to do it. You have time.

As for being popular at school, its overrated. Besides, there's a difference between people knowing who you are and being popular. At my first High School, I was invisible, because it was a huge school in a big city. For two years, I just wound my way through the crowd, like a ghost. Then we moved to a small town, where everybody knew everybody and I made a couple of friends, with other geeks like me, but even though everybody in the school knew who I was, knew me by name and seemed to like me (I was the only artist in the entire school) it didn't make them include me in anything. They'd say hi to me and go right on talking with each other like I wasn't there. They do the same thing on FaceBook now. So I got some recognition, but I was still essentially invisible. Its the plight of the autistic, we can have friends, but we're only allowed one or two at a time.

Point being, making everybody laugh may make them like you, but it won't make them your friends. That's why the Lonely Clown is an age-old stereotype - comedians are frequently some of the loneliest guys on the planet, and I think a lot of the reason for that is, they're often the people with the weakest social skills, who sit on the sidelines watching how ridiculous human social interaction really is, able to mock, parody and lampoon it, but never quite able to become part of it, and eventually rather cynical and contemptuous of it. But as long as the world needs jesters, there will always be an endless demand for talent.

So just keep watching for an opportunity. Dan Ackroyd, one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live (Ghostbusters; The Blues Brothers) has Asperger Syndrome and he's done very well for himself in the comedy business. He started out by joining an improvisational sketch comedy group called Second City, which contributed a lot of people to National Lampoon Radio Hour, then to Lorne Michaels and SNL and eventually Hollywood at large. He's an Oscar-nominated Big Po-tater now.