Do you know any other teens at school with Asperger's?

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I didn't know of any other people who had it or suspected they had it, but I am sure that quite a few of my friends probably did. Almost every friend I had expressed at least a few traits.

There's this aspie who was in the same school as I was, and is in the same school now. He's really cute.

But I can't talk to him or whatever because he's busy and somebody important, so it really sucks. I need company too!

(Oh, and he's really shy. I think my comfort zone is much greater than his. )

I always wished I did. I met one person just the other day. the first aspie I ever met, or knew I met. don't know if he knows about this website. he just movd to our small crappy town from washingtona dn his name is Kyle. I feel so alone though. I'm thinking of asking my resource teacher if i can start an Aspie club...

yup. i know about 20 people at my school who has AS. most of them are in my classes. i have a very large school. 3,000 kids at least.

At my old high school I knew two kids in the years below. I didn't (and still don't) know if I have it. They were both different as one was hyperactive and the other miserable and manic.
Then there is me who was considered by some to have a 'unique' personallity, which I think means in other words 'Your fussy, like 'crap'/'odd' bands and act oddly at times'

My english teacher said he hadn't meet anyone like me before throughout the years of teaching.
He ribbed me abit because of my odd nature.

Yes, but I'm not actually supposed to know about one of them. His girlfriend likes to gab.

Apparently, there's only one other guy in my school that's an aspie and he's in high school.
I don't know him.

GSGOLD do you have a middle/highschool school, all together? why don't you say hi to him?

Most of the kids in my resource class have ADD. cuz when this one kid said how many of you have ADD only two other people besides me said they didn't.

OMG... I know so many aspies at my school.

I had that idea with my two friends Harry and Matthew. In the end with the other kid we'd all just end up talking, but at no one about our obssesions.

I go to school in Amherst, Massachusetts, a rich college town.
This means three things:
A. It attracts eccentric parents with Aspie traits who are more likely to have eccentric kids.
B. It's rich, so parents with kids who need services unavailable at the local school send their kids to Amherst (I'm school of choice myself).
C. It's rich and has a lot of people who know about AS.

This means that there are about 4-5 students per class diagnosed with AS, starting with mine (last year's senior class only had one diagnosed.

Each class only has only one female diagnosed with AS. There's a girl in my Con Law class whose AS is blinding, yet has not been diagnosed. I'm guessing therefore, that there are probably actually about 6-8 students per class with AS (each class has a bit under 400 students).

I know all of the students with AS in my own class, two in the junior and freshman (er, excuse me ninth grader class, this bit of obsessive PC was mentioned on NPR) classes, and four in the sophomore class.

As such, I have a fairly good idea of AS based on myself and others.

I can tell you that there seems to me to be three main types of Asperger's.

The first type seems to have ADHD, very intensive personality, and I think these kids tend to be diagnosed with ADHD as well. A friend of mine in another district with AS is like this, as is one of the sophomore, and I've seen descriptions of others. This seems to be the rarest type.

The second type is very low functioning. One sophomore, my father (undiagnosed), and one of the teachers in the school all seem to have this. These people are completely oblivious to a social etiquette, not in the slightest self-aware, gullible, paranoid, hypocritical and condescending, clueless. (Examples: both the kid and my father will go for other people's food. They sometimes ask, but only while they're eating it. The teacher wrote a book of poetry and read the entire thing at the teacher talent show {about half an hour, everybody's least favorite part of the show}. Of course, these are just examples, other things at issue as well.)

Then the third type is by far the most common in my experience. Significantly higher functioning, I think that this is primarily because we're self-aware. Most of the kids in this type act very goth, and even those (such as myself) who don't are very cynical and observant of the world at large. We can break down over very petty things, and are highly disorganized, but when we're functioning we seem basically like very eccentric neurotypicals. We also while having AS can't lie (well, some can, but not convincingly), but we can be very tricky, and I've noticed kids in my study hall tend to give the SPED teachers the most difficulty by giving selective responses. I do somewhat wonder if the difference between us and the second type that I mentioned is that we've had treatment, or whether we're simply naturally more self-aware.

So basically there's the naive, clueless, and cynical, to give a very general breakdown. There are also a lot of paranoid by somewhat higher functioning people, not diagnosed, usually adults, who I hear experts say should have an AS diagnosis. This might make a third division.

wow. um thats alot, of Aspies...