Does anything get you /noticed/ as 'odd' at school?

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Just about everything.

I don't get noticed, I'm found.

When I was in school it was, being alone (friend wise), being alone (without a boyfriend, "you lesbo"), sucking at gym, being mute at times, dressing oddly & blushing. (I know there are more but those are off the top of my head).

I get noticed for a number of things, But not much people in my school know the aspergers even exists (Unless of course they watch South Park)

1. I constantly tap my fingers or feet, this annoys a lot of people
2. I'm very shy when not surrounded by friends
3. I'm a huge rock/grunge fan, so I despise commercial music, Which 85% of people in my school love
4. I'm sometimes "nerdy" in my interests, but I try not to bring them up
5. I can be cynical at times
6. I'm terrible at sports... I seriously can't catch a ball to save my life

they're just the reasons I can list off the top of my head

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At the moment I'm in a distance education program (much like homeschooling) and soon I'm moving to a residential unit with a school facility, but when I was attending mainstream schooling there were certain things that were commented on:

-No friends.
-Odd dress style.
-Maintaining high intelligence yets lowering grades as time went on.
-Always reading a book about serial killing. (My main interest.)
-Spent all time out of class in the library, and also in class time when I would walk out.
-Interacted with people as little as possible, and when I did, only about things I was specifically interested in.
-Often completely 'zoning out'.
-Regular meetings with (unhelpful) school counseller.
-Repetitive movements. (Clenching, tapping my hands and feet, rocking from side to side, jerking my head, odd facial expressions.)
-Monotone speech.
-Brutally honest. Especially if somone asked a question they didn't want to know the answer to. Why ask, then?
-Either no eye-contact, or 'creepy stare'.
-Odd posture.
-Ignoring someone trying to talk to me if they weren't saying anything interesting.
-Very good at football(/soccer) which always surprised people.
-Younger than the others in my year after skipping grades.
-Odd accent.

somebody said about pain tolerances? I got called steroids/terminator and all sorts because of what I pushed myself to in sports, long distance running, swimming etc. When I explained to other kids that I actually enjoyed physical pain sometimes, they thought I was mad! I got laughed at for how I walked, one guy told me I kept my head dead straight when I walked, which he found odd, and a few others laughed at me because I wasn;t sure how to walk whilst relaxed if that makes sense. I got told [ SWING YOUR ARMS WHEN YOU WALK!] but its never been natural for me to do that. Basically I walk with, an odd posture/ or gait, which people picked up on.

People (including my closest friend) just think I'm really shy and clumsy.

When I try speaking about things that are not in my "topics" apparently I come across as just plain annoying, maybe that's just my personality

I have never ever gone one day in school with out being called either: maniac, crazy, weird, freak, something is wrong with you, you should see a doctor, mental, nerd (that's negative for some reason?) scary (Yes, I have had people who have literally run away from me) and so on and so on. And I'm 14 years old and I'm really soon moving to my fifth school. Yeep...

Well I hated being unable to talk so much I found if I acted an always optimistic person I could usually go on about the good things about things for a while, then it got annoying, then people started taking the mick. Been trying to get back to the old me recently. A shy person is better than one you don't like.

Well I dropped out of high school a year and a half ago (technically I stopped going after spring break, but I got tutored until the end of the year), but while I was there:
-shy and quiet with people I don't know
-horrible at reading social clue-things, now that I think about it (before they all realized I was weird), I might have gotten flirted with a few times..
-I had like 5 friends that I was insane with, I was loud and said weird things, but they accepted that and embraced my weirdness, though sometimes I wasn't sure if they were laughing with me or at me
-right before I dropped out (actually a month after I started freshman year) I got really depressed
-right before a cross-country or track meet I would walk in circles, jump up and down, and just be waaaaaaaay too nervous
-I got high honors/honors (though I nearly drove myself insane trying to maintain those grades, especially trying to read books I wasn't interested in)
-I was too innocent/oblivious/fill_in_the_blank
-I had a horrible temper, once during history in Freshman year, the teacher walked out of the class while we were watching a movie (he did that a lot), and the noise instantly burst into noise (I'm super-sensitive to noise, heat, light, touch, etc), and since I liked history and the movie we were watching I screamed "SHUT THE F*** UP!!" The room fell dead silent, and then the teacher walked in. The teacher patted me on the back and recommended I take honors history next year, and I hear that the kids still talk about that incident
-when I wasn't with my friends I was a real loner, I didn't talk to anybody, and I barely went out after school (except for XC and Track, but even during the sports I was usually alone (worst person on the team), the person I was closest to was my coach, though his sarcasm was often lost on me )
-my friends said I would grow up to be a serial killer.. just cause I'm interested in them doesn't mean I'll be one..

The list gets slowly smaller and smaller every year, but I still have a list

-isolating myself in situation where I don't know anyone
-stumble on my speech sometimes
-I can't stand when people crack their bones (it sounds like people are breaking their bones in half)
-say something totally confidential out loud at the wrong time and place
-crying over little things (but then again, I see plenty of NT teenage girls doing that, too)
-getting worried about time management and/or organization
-keeping my legs straight when I run
-strange posture
-urge to break something when I'm mad
* and I've only had really good social skills for the past couple years, before then I was a loner who desperately wanted to fit in

Even after learning to control most of my behaviors, I still feel like people think I'mone of the "weird" kids in school

not sure if I have AS, but...

a. being a "maths genius"
b. not going to the formal (prom)
c. not going out
d. obeying the rules. always.
e. looking depressed when I'm not
f. being smart
g. walking weirdly ("waddling" - but I don't do that anymore, at least I don't think I do...)
h. having a monotonous voice

* Complaining about soap and towels never getting replaced unless specifically requested
* Being modest to the point of shifting conversations away from self and accomplishments
* Always walking silently but quickly
* Walking through midpoints between social groups
* Using the third person singular neuter pronoun when discussing people mentioned only by last name without any clues despite the grammatically correct usage
* Having the impression of someone who would be saying, "I told you so!" frequently primarily due to detachment
* Hyperfocus
* Treating laptop and calculator like sentient figures
* Checking pulse and approximate pressure frequently
* Stimming (suspected: more stereotypies than I realize)
* Slowing down conversations with the characteristic delay from input to hidden to output
* Continually standing straight but not perpendicular to, "flat," terrain
* Excessive monologues about special interests
* Inability to understand some commonly used colloquialisms until explained
* Smile only in mouth, not eyes
* LAtin sylLAble stress PATterns MAny THANKS to VerGIlius.
* Shutdowns after too much conversation
* Habit of collecting scrap materials (e.g. remains of construction paper cut-outs, unused wrapping paper, twist ties, etc)
* Insistence on obedience to the rules prior to reading about laryngitis and carpal tunnel syndrome regarding infraction reports
* Perpetually, "heavy," backpack despite carrying less than 15 kg on most days
* Carrying arms parallel to flat terrain
* Apparent similarity to ghosts, wraiths, specters, and other mythical figures
* Extreme dislike of tactile contact

I'm not diagnosed with AS (...yet), but here goes:

Things That Get Me Noticed In High School:
*Shy and silent.
*Reading books on Quantum Physics and Cosmology in Biology.
*Laughing at inappropriate times.
*Always daydreaming or repeatedly going to the restroom during instead of socializing with my three friends.
*Apparently, when I'm spacing out or daydreaming, I look sad.
*Always asking to do activities alone.
*Hitting myself whenever I get frustrated.
*Quick to cry.
*Having a 4.0 GPA while barely trying.
*Missing classes every Thursday to go to counseling.
*I was yelled at by a teacher for not knowing when to stop talking. (I ramble on a lot when I'm nervous or stressed about something else.)
*Someone once ran away from me when I was telling him about my friends back in middle school.
*Going overload with details when asked to describe an object for a Lab in Biology.

Things That Got Me Noticed In Middle School:
*Seeming shy at first but when people get to know me I get pretty eccentric.
*Again, laughing at inappropriate times.
*The fact that I hung out with the popular group at school, and the fact that they're all weirdos.
*Being extremely jumpy and I scream whenever I'm poked or surprised.
*Being really, really ticklish.
*My tantrums and meltdowns.
*Being a crybaby.
*I could never get those "dirty jokes". A lot of guys liked to try to corrupt my mind by "educating" me about it at random times.
*Got excited when the school received a bomb threat.
*Being hit by this one friend a lot due to my eccentricities.

I'm similar to the op but replace barefoot with love of shiny things. Not reflective things like mirrors where I can see myself because I hate that, but that reflect shiny distorted or unclear images I am immensevly interested. I get noticed as weird alot. Also after explaining AS to a friend he agreed I could have it, which I do.