Discrimination From Other Teens For Being Yourself

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People of my age at school have gotten used to how odd I sometimes am, and most of them share the same interestes with me. So, it's very easy to get along with them. People who are couple of years younger and don't know me well, however think I'm just a strange, creepy weirdo. But it's easy to ignore them, perhaps because they are so childish to me. Sometimes I'm asked the reason for why I do what I do, but I haven't told them about my AS. I'm sure they couldn't undestand and/or care.

A Day Never Passes when I don't get Discriminated. I usually have trouble identifying jokes from seriousness, but I really belive my classmates are Pitying me behind my back, ever since my Best school Friend Betrayed me in 6th Grade.

*I am Humiliated In Specific Classes on a Weekly Basis
*People Resent Sitting Next to Me
*Noone Trusts me (Nor do I trust any of them)
*Every time I am Humiliated I lose a friend I have gained
*I avoid passing by specific sections of the school, to avoid a 'Hostile' That usually passes by there every day
*Every Day I must Devise a Logic Pattern in my mind to Nullify out anything that Peers say, usually successful, at the cost of what's left of my respect.

I TRY to be Silent, Subtle, and Discreet, like some people I know, But I dont know Why I stand out So Much! I hardly even talk to people and they all just gang up on me every day! I just hope it dosent come to pass one day when someone dares to physically attack me (I'm learning Taekwondo, and I am a Blackbelt at Shotokan Karate, they'll be in for a nasty suprise when they do)

Teenagers can Be So Cruel....

Everyone thats brave enough to be (or is naturally) different gets picked on. At least where I went to school in grade school and high school I didn't get hit or maliciously verbally attacked (to my face). It's disgusting what the kids do. Just be careful to not get too comfortable with the stereotypes you're being labeled with. Some kids grow attached and even start acting out the behavior, even if they considered it an insult before.

In college some have grown out of it and its easy enough to ignore those who didn't (hint: avoid sororities).

Generally my friends would tell me about how they were talking about me (to somebody I didn't even know) and the person would say "oh, her? she's weird."

Smartest decision I ever made was to take weird as as a compliment.

I could go on for hours about the bullying I've had to endure x_x

Here's a brief list of the things I've been bullied about:

~ dressing weirdly
~ my appearance
~ being really into certain subjects (dog training, etc.)
~ my emotional sensitivity ("crybaby")
~ my social awkwardness
~ hanging out with "weird" people
~ being smart

Elementary school was the worst, including summer camps. I was the "crybaby" of the grade. I had lots of trouble controlling my emotions and would get upset about many things. Bad grades especially. Didn't have many, to be honest, but forgetting homework drove me insane.

Barely had any friends, but they were great friends nonetheless. I dressed atypically, I was teased for being into dogs and dog training. One as*hole even said I liked f*****g dogs. I was always an outcast 'cause I was so socially awkward. I was also really smart for my age, gaining some of my peers' envy. And the worst part was the teachers barely did s**t. They were all "oh, ignore them! That'll solve EVERYTHING!!1" No, that just encourages them to try harder!! This is partially why I don't trust teachers or school counselors, who should stick to helping kids choose classes and colleges.

Sixth grade was probably my worst bullying year. Not only was I the target of "cyber-bullying," but kids were getting really cruel. I wasn't pretty or popular, therefore a loser. Granted, it was around this time where I gained enough maturity to scoff at their attempts, but only so much.

I remember one incident quite clearly. A friendly acquaintance of mine found my picture in this one popular as*hole's yearbook all scribbled out. I told the teacher, but they were all "Oh, he shouldn't have done that, but Wa1 wer j00 go1N thr00 his yrbewk?!?11" It was so ridiculously irrelevant to the situation, and they didn't do anything beyond telling him not to do it again. WTF?!

Middle school was better, except for this one idiot in seventh grade who would bug me about liking this one guy who I DIDN'T LIKE. But anyways, socially, I wasn't doing so well. Didn't have many friends in my classes or at lunch. Basically was never spoken to unless someone had to This was especially bad in Orchestra. I was even bullied for wanting to go hunting someday, the damn hippies. There was even a girl in orchestra in eighth grade who hated me because I was so emotionally sensitive. Even said to one of my closest friends that she was "above me."

High school has been pretty tame, bullying-wise. I got really tough so I could give the bullies s**t back. >D I had one of my friends, who I've since grown much closer to, in five out of seven of my classes. Although I still had some friend issues in chorus, hence why I didn't go on the spring trip to Boston. Earlier that year, I was diagnosed with depression and GAD, so they put me on medication. Gotta say it was one of the better things they've done for me ^_^ I lost a close friend, though, who wasn't sensitive to my emotional issues. I've since started talking to her again. My love life began early freshman year, but it hasn't turned out so well. Looong story there, I'll go into it later. I will say that the first ended badly (we're good friends, though), and the two after him cheated or tried to cheat on me.

My sophomore year has been pretty good so-far. Two friends of mine who're now freshman have lunch with me every-other day, my classes are more entertaining, and while I don't have friends in all my classes, it doesn't bother me as much. Still really bugs me in chorus, but it's starting to look up. I've got great friends at another school in Arlington county, whose anime club I go to on Mondays ^_^ I'm gonna try to revive our school's anime club, seeing as it died last year. And I'm the president =D

I was actually bullied a lot more when I was younger, back in Primary School, and I was much more normal back then. In High School most of the kids who bullied me didn't know me at all, which is probably due to my friend Victor who got a bit of a reputation for beating up bullies (On two seperate occasions he attacked a kid who was harrasing a friend of mine who was also a friend of his and a different kid who was harrasing him) after that I became relativley popular though I still didn't know how to talk to people. I think that most of the bullying has to do with me having AS. Amazingly he always said that he became my friend because back when he first met me he thought I was cool.

* Of the way you look
Yes

* The way you dress
Yes

* What kind of music you listen to
Yes

* What kind of people you hang out with(or the people that you DON'T hang out with)
Yes

* Your hobbies and interests
Yes

* Your orientation or gender idenity(if you're bi,gay/les,transgendered,or androgynous)
Not really

* If you have a physical disability
Yes

* IF YOU HAVE AS(or another problem)
Yes

* Or anything else that wasn't mentioned above
Yes

I get called names all the time for no reason it quite annoying.

And, people think I~m stupid because of my asperger

Or whenever I misspell something people harass me and call me names.

I think people call me stupid either because they are envious of me or they think it~s funny. One person that called me stupid didn~t even know what comen sence was. How pathetic!

Also, people think I~m stupid because of my spelling disability.

I have been treated like a freak because:

I'm a furry.
I'm a Therianthrope
I wear dark clothes and a custom made black wolf necklace, or shirts with wolves on them.
I can not draw neatly.
I am an aspie.
I am a "geek" because I am smarter than 95% of the people I come incontact with.
I howl at the moon.

When I was in school (Im home taught now) people thought I was weird and strange and I got bullied. Adults think Im weird to but I try not to think about it, it just makes me upset

I've been discriminated all my life. I just don't bother with people like that who can't take me for who I am.

Alright...

- I'm not attractive, people don't remark on it much, but it happens.
- I wear a lot of the same clothes, but this doesn't happen much now with a uniform for school.
- I listen to "Emo" music, how that works I have no f**king clue, it's METAL people, no emos I've met listen to it.
- No one really remarks on who I hang out with, my best friend is "socially acceptable".
- I'm told I talk about WoW too much (If you don't play it, any part of it is too much).
- People say I'm gay all the time, and I'm not. At all.
- No physical disabilities, just suck at sports.
- I'm coming to think I almost definitely have AS, but everyone just says I'm weird.

Even my best friend makes fun of me sometimes. No one understands me except my dad, really. And a girl I've known almost as long as my best friend. Honestly she's the only one I've told that I'm an atheist. It's not like I'm TRYING to be different, I just am, so I get picked on.

Edit: Oh, and some others I thought of.

- I skip lunch in the caf and go home instead, so people make fun of me for that.
- I have an odd voice
- My ability to spot spelling mistakes and my urge to correct them. (lol)
- Taking things too literally. (My teacher a few days ago told me to pass the papers over. To me, over meant beside, and I
put them on the desk beside me. She meant to pass them to her, and the whole class laughed. I felt like crap, obviously.)

Odd, I was also made fun of for liking cats in the 6th grade. 7th too. By 8th grade I got tired of it and acted like I didn't know what they were talking about. Eventually it stopped when they got tired of getting no reaction out of me.

yes i have been bullied because its aimed at my autism

*sigh* if only bullying was my problem

I bullied and whatever for the usual crap you get with AS, but also because my obsessions tend to be with dark stuff so I'm eventually considered a goth (maybe I am hell if I know), listening to Manson occasionally, stuff like that. I've been kicked and beaten to a bloody pulp on more then one occasion, once actually causing me to have a dislocated shoulder and a big chunk of tooth chipped off (3 kicks in the face can do that), but the best part of it is the cops won't lift a finger because they say I bring it upon myself because how I act/dress.

Besides that called ret*d by both parents at one time or another and have had them tell other people I am.

Called a satanist my my health/phys Ed teacher on a daily basis.

Called gay a lot.

Burnt my clothes with a cigarette as I walked past them.

Commented that I had to be a druggie because my clothes always smelt like wood smoke (I just like the smell and i was obsessed with BBQ for awhile. Funny thing is 2 of the kids who used to say that are addicted to oxycotin now.

Told that its not too late to find Jesus and be saved almost everyday for only god knows why

Seeing someone digging out of the garbage is not an every day event?

i got bullied for

The way I walk (apparently i walk with my back slighlty tilted forward

Liking pokemon (why is that a bad thing I have no idea)

Being just plain weird

Headbutting my locker (I was depressed and this was one way to relieve the madness going around my head)

I think I also got bullied for being intelligent because most of the people who were bullying me either got worse grades than me or were stupid.