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13 Sep 2010, 6:50 pm

Totally, no doubt. I don't know how any of my extended family feels because Ive never asked them, but I pretty much feel like an outsider among them. Sad really, but what can you do?

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13 Sep 2010, 7:04 pm

danandlouie wrote:

OREN......wow, i hope you realize how fortunate you are.

i am always amazed how so many humans 'complain' about such minor things. don't you realize that many of us on w. p. and in the real world have never had anyone to love us. parents who abused us at every chance, teachers who treated us like we did not exist, relatives, what relatives? i'm sure i had aunts/uncles/cousins but i never met any of them. try to imagine what it is like to never have been hugged and told you were loved. try to imagine to only be laughed at when you've asked someone for help when you're a child who is afraid. try to imagine being laughed at by everyone you know because you stutter so bad.

black sheep, closer to black holes.

but, of course, you don't want to hear about it...you don't want to know we exist.

in all honesty though, i can barely imagine the horror of being blocked on facebook!

Ahaha, yes. My mother threw me down the stairs, kicked me out of the house and told me to F*** off the first time I asked how to tie my shoelaces. I'm under the impression that most children never really even had to ask, it's something their parents would have took the initiative to teach them.

I don't think anyone should worry too much about being blocked by a cousin on facebook. I agree with the idea that if that makes someone a black sheep, some of us are more like black holes, or treated like the black death.

You shouldn't let stuff like that bring you down. People who treat you like that aren't worth being in contact with.

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13 Sep 2010, 7:09 pm

No, luckily enough.

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13 Sep 2010, 8:02 pm

Quite the opposite. I'm the Shining Golden Child and The Hope For The Future.

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13 Sep 2010, 8:08 pm

Not really. I do pretty well by my family. I do get ignored alot, but so what? I like being by myself, anyways. Compared to some of the other comments....no, I have not experienced that kind of thing at all. I guess it depends on who you're parents are and what your family social dynamic is like.

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13 Sep 2010, 8:10 pm

Absolutely. Even if I didn't have Asperger's I'd still be the black sheep in the family.

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13 Sep 2010, 9:50 pm

Yes, mainly because I never was happy to go along with how I was "supposed" to live or act. I questioned the assumptions way too much But they still speak to me anyways. I find it kind of amazing, actually, even though my life choices are so radically different from any of theirs.

I was completely misunderstood as a kid, because i didn't see the world the way I was supposed to, or didn't realize what I was expected to do in some situations.

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14 Sep 2010, 1:10 am

TO ALONE.......your avatar just kills me when i see it. it's easy to feel how your life is going. i hope you are young. it's hard to tell what can happen in your future. i escaped all the childhood horrors and became contented with myself. i was a marathoner, a bike racer and a free climber. i traveled all 50 states and about 40 different countries. like jimmy cagney in 'white heat' "TOP OF THE WORLD". then a drunk driver ran over me and murdered me. hahahahah so much for top of the world crap. i send good thoughts to you.

TO PUNKY......i hope you did not change what you wrote because of what some creep said to me. they're just like the bullies you had to deal with your entire life. none of my business, i know. we animal rights people have to stick together. talk about your black sheep! being for animal rights automatically gets you into the black sheep club.

TO INVADER.......think i saw you at the end of '2001-a space odyssey'. was that you? the black death line was pretty good.

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14 Sep 2010, 1:16 am

one of my cousins thinks what I need is a kid.

There's so much wrong with that idea I don't even know where to begin.

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14 Sep 2010, 1:19 am

Depends... my older brother has low functioning Autism, and my mother and younger brother are suspected of having Aspergers. My sister is the only 'normal' one of us. lol

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14 Sep 2010, 1:32 am

Yes, but in a good way.....I am the only one of my siblings to graduate high school properly, but I also graduated college, which puts me on everyone's good side. They all say they are proud of me and brag about me to their friends.

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14 Sep 2010, 2:55 am

Tory_canuck wrote:

That's awesome, Tory_canuck! You prove that even though people like us come with their share of challenges, we also come with a lot of strengths...sometimes even outperforming others. :wink:

Keep up the good work!

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14 Sep 2010, 2:58 am

My whole family is a bunch of artsy fartsy open minded weirdos, so I fit in just fine. Compared to my younger sister, who has a developmental delay, ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder, I'm not that hard to handle. It sure was (and continues to be) a challenge growing up with my sister, though.

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