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

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1. Quirky speed walking
2. Being alone all the time
3. Odd posture
4. Monotone voice
5. Evil-like grinning to myself while not being aware of it (which is very embarrassing)
6. Constant staring at the floor
7. Lack of eye-contact
8. Awkward figeting with my sleeve and watch
9. Speaking too fast
10. Being the teacher's pet
11. The fact that I have an exemption from P.E and Irish

I've been told I'm a bit weird but no-one knows i'm Apsie. When I told my friends they were really shocked. I've always been weird thats how I am. Also Ilove me the way I am i don't want to be what they call "normal"
I have trouble making friends because I keep to myself, only have a few. Same goes with girls but oh well

I'm tired, I'm not going to bother listening.

I have a severe case of ADHD. That was and is enough to give my position away. I constantly got the classic..."DUDE, MATT, SHUT THE **** UP!" or "Stop touching me!" or "Dude, wake up." "I WILL KILL YOU'RE FAMILY IF YOU TALK TO ME AGAIN." I always bugged people and talked constantly in class. Everyone knew who I was alright. The whole damn school system did.

I'm so silent most of the time that I mostly go unnoticed.

I was selectivly mute throughout school. I used to get bullied quite a bit but it didnt stop me from making friends. I also liked to walk around barefoot (still do )

1) I'm an office aide and really shy to teachers when I give them the call slip for a student
2) I'm bisexual
3) Adults always ask "what's wrong" when I'm fine

Shyness, voice (odd sounding, and issues with L and R sounds), my dislike of most of the other people, complete lack of social skills and no knowledge of modern slang and such, and that I never pay attention in class yet get good geades because I already knew it, I run to all of my classes just for fun, even though i have plenty of time to get there, and odd looking running. And the fact that I know huge amounts about physics and history and every other subject, but just learned last week who Justin Beeber is.

Lisp, odd walk and gestures, lack of eye contact. extreme clumsiness, extremely argumentative, atheist bible belt resident,overly loud voice/poor modulation, large vocabulary, dressing in baggy "masculine" clothes, love of comic books, sci fi, physics and bad fan fiction.

Speaking very fast, lack of eye contact, lack of interest in things my female classmates like to talk about (e.g. "lovely" boys, clothes, vampires, gossip, puberty related issues, celebrities and a lot of other dull things that seem to be the main area of interest of teenage girls), lisp, being monothematic, staring at the ground while walking, not going to P.E. due to Osgood - Schlatter disease, using archaic and little known words, being quiet, sensory hypersensitivity, permission to get out of lessons without asking, making weird faces and sounds, always carrying a "Memorix Neurology" book, trying to explain everything with quantum physics, dressing like a nerd, not understanding slang, walking in circles when anxious, finger twisting, reacting inappropriately, correcting people's spelling and grammar mistakes (in Polish), not caring about being popular, inability to understand jokes, sarcasm and metaphor, not eating meat, knowledge of biology greater than my teacher's (he admitted it himself, but I'm not sure if this is true), clumsiness, misunderstanding people's intentions, excessive attachment to schedules, going to a school psychologist regularly, singing to myself.

Because of the listed above, most girls treat me like a seven year old, and boys make fun of me. Luckily, I have a friend who knows what Asperger's is and understands my behavior.

In my case, there are a lot of things that get me noticed as "odd."

For example, I have a tendency to give long-winded and very technical explanations of things. I go into monologues. I have difficulty telling when people are being facetious, sarcastic, or ironic. I almost always answer rhetorical questions. (Once, to see if I really couldn't understand sarcasm, one person asked me if I could spell "rhetorical." I said, "Of course. R-H-E-T . . . oh." I wouldn't have realized if not for belatedly realizing the ramifications of the context of the conversation.) I usually look at the ground while walking. I have specific places where I sit in each situation, and hate when that is disrupted. (New seating charts make me sad. I picked out a lovely seat in one of my classes on the first day of school, and sat there for about seven months before the teacher gave us a new seating chart because the other kids were just too disruptive. I have trouble talking to teachers and people in general, so I didn't beg for my seat back. Some teachers actually move the seats around. For example, on Friday, I came into history to find the seats rearranged, and exclaimed "oh no!" The teacher, having seen how upset I get about this sort of thing, calmly told me that my seat was one of the few that had not been altered in position and told me to go to my 'happy place.')

Additionally, I have interests that just aren't exactly average for other students my age. Some of them are actually in my signature, but there are others too. I carry around books that you just wouldn't expect to see in the arms of an average student. I have peculiarities in the way I eat. I do a lot of things in specific ways. I have difficulty regulating how loud or soft my voice is, and sometimes even the pitch. I tend to avoid eye contact or make too much eye contact. I dress oddly. (Sometimes just inappropriately formally. Some kids have actually mistaken me for a teacher.) I get into discussions about the logical ramifications of things. I correct grammatical, technical, and logic mistakes. I rarely leave my home for any reason but to go to school or the supermarket. I can speak for hours on one narrow subject, in depth. Loud noises really get to me, and each time the fire alarm goes off, I'm covering my ears. Some loud noises will have me reeling in my desk, hands over my ears, rocking myself back and forth. (Lately, a girl in one of my classes has been very rude to me about the loud noises thing. She'll say, "IT'S NOT LOUD, [name]! IT DOESN'T BOTHER ANYONE ELSE." Needless to say, I haven't a clue why she does it.

The list goes on. I'm very particular about things.

Oh, and Joannaaleksandra?

being quiet, staring into space, walking without shoes,blank facial expressions, always asking people to go somewhere with me, sitting at the same places, looking at the ground.
probably more.

1. The aide that sits next to me in some classes. (I hate having an aide because of this, plus I don't even need them for most of these classes.)
2. Extreme social anxiety when working in groups with people I don't know. (Which will often cause me to chicken out and run to the aide for moral support.)
3. The fact that even my most witty responses can be the most logical ones as well, that even provide a different and interesting point of view.
4. My ever so odd seating positions. (I often get into some sort of cross-legged yoga pose when I'm trying to think more creatively, and lounge in some sort of odd manner when trying to think logically.)
5. As for teachers: My unusually high test scores compared to my homework scores. (I almost NEVER do homework.)
6. How much of a perfectionist I can be. (If I'm doing group work, the work can't be handed in until I believe that all the information is accurate, even if it is not required to be or has "no wrong answers.")
7. How pissed I tend to get when another student asks to see my grades, even if they are good grades. (This kind of happens to my parents too, I often refuse to show them a report card, even if it has all As or As and Bs.)
8. Dumbest one in my opinion: How other students find it odd that I don't want to talk to them when in the restrooms. (First of all, I most likely don't know them. Second, I just wanna do my business and leave, is that too much to ask for? And why is it so important to know who's is the third stall, or something like that?)

Well... I'm one of the: "You'd never had guessed!" But maybe the fact I walk on my toes and get obsessed about weird things. Maybe that I don't understand sarcasm and can't "Read between the Lines!" and that I rock backwards and forwards, used to flap my hands down by my sides and other similar happenings can mark me down as: "Odd." Others include: Sensitive to materials, E.G: School Uniform Polo-Shirts, Kinds of Pyjamas, I don't mind sitting alone and I don't care about fashion, trends and dating!
They are other things... I've listed a few! =) =) =)

Reasons why I get noticed as odd at school is:

1. I wear the same jersey every day, and I'm certain that everyone at school knows me as "that girl in the red jersey".
2. I never talk to anyone, but that's because they never talk to me (unless if they have a scientific question).
3. I have an in-class tutor for math that is specifically assigned to me and everyone else notices that... I think.
4. I'm extremely slow to understand jokes that people say.
5. Posture.
6. Meltdowns.

Also, the noises that I make in class (catlike sounds, things that you would hear a five year old say).