Do you feel like the odd one out on Wrong Planet?

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Nor me ( bar a handful of incidents )

I feel like the odd one out wherever I am and whoever I’m with, I think that’s kinda the point.

In general, higher functioning folk will post more, and, being easier to understand, get more replies. I feel "at home" as regards anxiety over social situations, but have not found any significant intellectual stimulation. All the gamers and fanboys seem like aliens to me, oblivious to the most significant times in human history. My "career" has made me the odd one out everywhere anyway.

To the OP, lots of us just scraping by at best.

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A lot of this is quite unhelpful. I'm not buying the high-functioning thing at all. I have a job, a wife and two children, both of whom have ASD traits (though thankfully not like mine). I am not high-functioning. I go out to work at enormous cost to my health, only to be known as strange or weird. I use Prozac to get through life, as do many other 'high-functioning' people. Work has given me GAD and made my OCD vastly worse at times. If those who are low functioning think people like me are not really Autistic, which has been suggested on this thread, consider yourself
uninformed. There is not really any such thing as high-functioning. We're all stuck in a hole, perhaps some of us are just deeper in it.

I am the site thread-killer!

So was I.

You have my empathy. I am going through a terrible business at the moment also. Take care.

You are maybe higher functioning than you actually believe. Would you like me to tell you about my life? never mind, you don't want to know.

I am probably one of the worse-er cases on this site.

I agree completely.

It's not really helping anyone to play "who has it worse", especially not yourself.

It may not help me much but it is the reality. I'm probably one of the fewer people here who were non verbal as children. Unfortunately things only evolved so much more for the worse. ''ASD'' was just a drop on the bucket for me and many more things followed. A combination of bad genetics, bad luck and just downright slipping further and further through the cracks.

I am GLAD there are people who are able to work, start relationships, have children and even own their own home but that is just not relatable to me.

I understand your frustration but I understand it for different reasons.

For me there doesn't seem to be a lot of People of Colour on this site, there's a lot of guys, my self esteem isn't terrible, I've managed to have a few relationships in my life, before being diagnosed I experienced a lot of trauma, I'm also not just an outcast in British society but also my cultural community, I don't 'fit in' to or like the spaces (virtual or real life) that are apparently made for me.

Like one of the older women in this thread I 'look good' to an extent, so I've been exploited in more ways than one.

I can write very well about how I feel and dictate thoughts, concepts and ideologies but I struggle with personal conversations that last longer than 15 minutes.

Camouflaging isn't fun. Pretending to be an NT and going to an unknown place can leave me recuperating for 2 weeks. I feel like it's also why I fell into depression and became suicidal.

I live with my family but not every family is functional and friendly.

There are many reasons I've been diagnosed late, mostly because no one is checking for a black aspie or autistic girl that doesn't 'look slow'. No one cared enough.


I understand why you feel left out but isn't that the point of wrong planet? Aren't we all meant to feel left out together?

I love that song. It soothes me. It brings to my mind that quiet and peaceful garden where Sweet Peas grow.

The biggest misfit I ever met was the son of a black American GI stationed in Japan after WWII. He had been raised in Japan, and adopted all the classical mannerisms like a polite little bow, etc. despite sticking out like a very tall, brown thumb. Considered a foreigner even in Japan, he came to Toronto, where people expected him to know jive talk, or maybe Jamaican patois. It can happen even to NTs.

Aww... bless you. I might actually have managed to get my tired rear end off the couch long enough to get pizza or Indian food back then and commiserate about shared weirdness (since nobody knew what we had then but damn, we sure had something!)

Hugs Kraftie!

@Kip, sorry I'm old. I didn't do it on purpose, it just kinda happened



and I'm teasing you, dear. (That's Katherine Hepburn as Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion In Winter. She didn't do it on purpose either. Eleanor, I mean. Or Katherine.)

Would you believe, I was actually intimidated by you at first? Because you are so damn smart? I'm serious!! !! ! I actually will open your posts to read what you think, on my way elsewhere. Maybe I ought to chime in more when I do that.

I actually looked up your username to find out what language it was. (Hungarian, yes?) This did nothing for the intimidation factor, but it did a lot for my optimism about "these kids today". You, Lego, Kura, Emma Gonzalez... 16 to 30. The world will be in better hands.

You are awesome, or whatever the young'uns say today that means the same thing.

@bethanny: Oh dear, this is starting to look/feel like some kind of contest. All right; you win, then. Not sure how that will help, though.

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