I feel like an alien

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24 Dec 2013, 5:24 am

Willard wrote:

I believe I am the result of ongoing genetic experiments being done by the Greys to blend their DNA into a hybrid, so that they can learn to experience human emotion.

I thought that's why the website was called Wrong Planet and it's mascot was an alien - because we all felt that way. :alien:

Oops! now the cat is out of the bag!

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24 Dec 2013, 9:24 am

If more education was invested into educating people about autism through an autistic person's point of view, maybe we wouldn't feel this way.

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24 Dec 2013, 10:19 am

babybird wrote:

I've only just started feeling like this recently after not feeling it for quite a few years.

I think it might be due to me starting a new job and being around new people.

I do like the people who I work with and I know they're ok with me, but I feel really exposed.

I'm not anxious or anything like that, it's just a really weird feeling. I also feel as though they know, but they're not saying anything.

I know that feeling too well. I don't have issues with anxiety really, but when I start a new job, I'm just as you described.

I don't know if you're the same, but I think the reason is that I have learned that different social groups behave in different ways. How I behave depends on the people around me. When you enter a new social group, one you're unfamiliar with, you start to wonder how to behave around these new people, and whether you have come across others like them before.

I felt real alien when I started this one job, where for the first time ever, rather than working with people my age, it was mainly forty year old + mothers, and grandmothers. Obviously it wasn't so bad, as they were all so lovely and nurturing, but as I hadn't faced anything like that before, I felt I struggled to know what to talk to them about.

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24 Dec 2013, 10:26 am

^^I think you have hit the nail on the head there.

Most of the people who I work with are about 20 years younger than me.

I do get on with them, and they are really polite to me and they can't do enough for me, to be honest.

Yes, I do think it's an age thing.

Thanks for that, Hart.

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28 Dec 2013, 4:08 pm

babybird wrote:

I fell like this sums up exactly how I feel too I'm not sure if it's all I my head or if there is definately something in it and not sure if I ever will

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28 Dec 2013, 6:25 pm

babybird wrote:

Anytime babybird

Happy I could help

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