Do you feel like an outsider, even here at Wrong Planet?

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Yes, I'm a Christian and a diagnosed Aspie. It sometimes seems like I'm a minority within a minority. At least the one time I glanced at the PPL fourum

Yes - I chat away happily here, but I know noone and noone responds to me. That's aspergers, I suppose, but - wait - maybe it's me.

This. I posted that I do not fit in here. Nobody shares my views (how many of you are seriously trying to save the world? How many are not conventional Christians but support religion in principle?) and very few seem to live in constant panic about earning enough to survive. But this is the one place I have found where being different is normal.

Seconded.

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Yes I feel out of it here because I am much older that everyone here... sixty-nine. And I haven't had an diagnosis from a "doctor," and that seems pretty important to many posters here.

But, I have had a weird outsiders life. For example, I lived in a 12'x12' shack in Jamaica for fifteen years by myself. I had a delivery job where I worked by myself for twenty years.

But six years ago I had cancer (stage 4 non-Hodgkins lymphoma), and chemotherapy. A couple years later I had anxiety attack... I was alone of course, and I had no idea what had actually happened to me. So I went to Google, Wikipedia, and then the DSM, to figure out what was happening to me. I started taking online psychology tests. I thought I probably had PTSD. Or I was schizoid. But eventually I got the result: Your Aspie score: 120 of 200 Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 69 of 200 You are very likely an Aspie. And then I read up on Asperger's, having never heard the word, and I found WP and started reading here. I am one of you.

Growing up was pure torture for me... I was such a disappointment and shame to my father, who was an Air Force officer. My stimming and posture drove him nuts. Even my left handedness... oh well, I am rambling.

Yes, unfortunately. I'd like to feel "connected" eventually, though. This is probably the first time I've posted on here in a long time, since I have this fear that my opinion will be ignored, lul.

I've been saying it too many times already but I'll say it again, here as well ..... wrongplanet is a little bit too busy for me but I'll give it a try anyway.... As for being an "outsider", most of the people don't look at the world the way I do whether they are on the spectrum or not and it's fine by me, I'm used to it

this is the only place i dont feel like an outsider (except for around my brother and his family) and i love this forum because of it, because i never thought i could actually find a place where i fit in.
only that i don't have an obsession and that bothers me. i would very much like to have an obsession and i think most people on wrong planet have one and i envy them. but i like the participants of wrong planet, they seem very supporting to me and they understand me. i feel better about myself and understand me problems better now. i never thought i could find someone who actually understands me.
i feel i fit in perfectly here, which is kind of a new feeling and one i've given up on before i found this forum.

Hey tall-p, good to see you again. I remember your story about living in that shack.

I would simply ignore anyone who clamours about aspies who don't have their paperwork, you don't have to be a certified aspie to use the site.

Good to hear it, felines

Thanks... thanks. :)

Despite my first post in this thread, I went through a long period in 2011 that I felt like an outsider. I felt that I was too obsessive to be here from late March until just recently. I felt that I was annoying everybody when I wasn't trying to be annoying. I also felt that I was walking on eggshells, trying not to annoy anybody. I don't feel like that so much, any more.

hahaha i found my old posts in this thread. good for a walk down memory lane. in teresting to see how my posting style has changed/not changed.

just like before, lots of members ignore my posts and i still try to get them to talk to me.... and back then i was more of a n00b and didn't really notice sarcasm, apparently.

i am still very opinionated, but learning more restraint.

back then i was more restrained in my use of exclamation points. note that i used only one at the end of a sentence but now i have regressed in this regard. YES REALLY!! !! !!12!! !! !!



still awkwardly hugging people.


and i stand by this. avatars make people more noticeable. in my head i assign personalities to people over time, based on posting style, forums areas, thread topics they participate in, etc. it's easier for me to recmember someone and interact with them if there is an image to attach to the personality (even if it changes).

Yes,Definitely!

I am not as logical and intelligent as others. I am too over-sensitive and emotional for this forum and for real life.
Every little thing hurts me and I don't know how to control it.
I found that many aspies aren't an emotional wreck.

I am not even sure if my diagnoses is correct because I am not the typical aspie.
The Dating,womens,PPR and adult forum make me feel the worse.

I recently posted 2 thread on this subject and I am now afraid that people think that I am an attention seeker.
I also care too much about what others think of me. That probably makes me an outsider too.

I quite like it when you go nuts on the exclaimings.