I don't fit in ANYWHERE

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You aren't alone in your feelings! The only place I feel at home is out in the forest--away from the noisy, smelly, and mostly inconsiderate humans!

Do you have an interest/hobby that helps you feel less out of place?

I feel your pain, life on the autistic spectrum can be rough. Letting your thoughts complete without engaging or judging has helped me. You probably think in pictures like I do. To remove judgement of your thoughts switch the key words to the pictures then focus on your breath. With strong emotions if you stay with them without judging or engaging they will disipate like a wave from the ocean. Then another thought will likely come, just use the same technique. When you engage or judge it gives the negative thought or emotion power over you. When you don't engage or judge, the thought or emotion will disipate like a wave.

Works for me, got me from near max doses of 6 psychiatric meds to getting completely off and I am happier than ever. Even through two illnesses in the past couple of months that landed me in the hospital.

Hope that helps!

Blue Thunder

While I deal with this almost everyday in a week, I don't take advantage of myself. Never take medications to make myself happy. Over the years I learned about being myself, not comparing with others and avoid wasting time with wrong people. I just go and leave.

Unfortunately it how the society works, and it struggling to change themselves. By how media, technology and competitiveness portrays, it putting a lot of pressure on so called 'misfits'. I don't call ourselves as 'misfits' nor any sort of label. I used to label myself, and that when I was more of unhappy person. Now I am labeling as my full name. This helps me to identify other people by their names by the way who they are.

So yes I do feel don't fit. While I have great achievements, honours, experiences, education and traveling I still don't belong because I am different among many peers in many type of stereotypes of people. I struggle getting employed, making new friends and maintain them, find a girlfriend and getting fit in community groups. The more I learn myself to understand what is going on in my networks and places I go meeting people the more I realise what is going on with them. For example, they might have some form of invisible disability by the way they act/behave. I would never judge by who they are.

Lot of Australians are very good at criticising and bullying people. I understand we are racist country in the world. It same kind of personality and attitudes that people label how they are different judging their appearance, behaviour and 'class'. So the problem it not just Autistic people experiences. The problem is the society structures those uneducated or lack common sense NTs. They fall into crap without realising.