In your own world (loner?)

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I got told at work that I'm often in my own little world, and I just said, "I don't like yours very much".

I was repeatedly told this as a kid by highly social adoptive parents, who happen to highly value good social skill. I'm never told this now.

Sounds like me! I've answered "I like mine better than yours" at least once.

I wish! If I were often in a world of my own I would be able to block out noise and crowds of people. But I can't - I am too aware and alert of other people and what they're doing and thinking, and I hear all noises. I wish I could just drift away into my own world, like I'm away from all those crowds when actually I'm in the middle of it all.

I'm gonna be blunt, CD84, those people especially the girl who wouldn't acknowledge you, are DOUCHEBAGS!

That's their diagnosis.

Anyone who would do that to anyone else has serious social skills problems. Really.

People say similar things to me. They pick up on a difference but can't put their finger on exactly why they think I'm different. I'm a loner too. I look "cool" on the outside (Ex Model) according to others, but I'm very different on the inside, it's just part of the Aspie deal unfortunately. Some of you like being a loner but I wish I was one of those life of the party types. Or Drew Barrymore. I like her. She's always so happy and funny.

My new favorite quote: "Different, but not less."

Now I will have to watch that movie.

CD84, don't judge yourself on what a couple of DB's say. I have had a lot of DB encounters & I would not trade places with any of them. Aspergers or not.

People can tell if your mind is in a dream like state. Although for me every construction job started as a dream, an architect had to dream up the job and convert it into drawings but I am a construction worker so to be an artist is not my job description and can really be annoying to others because creativity can interfere with the more mundane tasks at hand and also can be an outright danger in a dangerous construction environment. Even an artist like an architect can be severely constrained because his art must rigidly match and conform to the typical architectural styles that society accepts to such a degree that it is no longer art but rather commercialized production building design for corporations such as McDonalds.

Friend, there are idiots in our world that place attention needs before smarts.

The quote above by Kaybee is how I feel. My world is where my interests live. I love visiting that world. As a child, and to this day, I preferred my time alone (family is fine---I love having family around me, and I get my alone time with them when I need it). I found so-called friends around me too overwhelming and awkward. One best friend was fine, but not more. I have written a poem about this. I describe playing behind a curtain with my interests---and I have a sign posted to not disturb me for there is no vacancy for anyone else.

me too! On every single report I got from from preschool to grade 2 my teachers wrote that I was "off in my own little world" or had a "tendency to go off into my own little world". I had one psychologist (long before I was diagnosed with anything as a little kid) who drew two circles on a pad (one inside the other) and said to my mom that the big circle was the real world and the little circle inside it was my world. I'm actually not sure why he used a visual aid to illustrate that. I was intrigued and wondered how I could get to the little circle! I didn't get the metaphor. That is one of my earliest childhood memories. Anyways I am often in my own little fantasy world even now........... I like to spend time in the little circle

Yeah, I'm quite lonely. Not that I mind, it gives me time to reflect on life. I have some friends mainly because I share their sense of humour.