Seeing normal people.

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Agreed. I'm undiagnosed, but am looking into an evaluation.

I put myself in my current living/working situation specifically so that I wouldn't isolate. But the others here are very social and do everything together.

It's what I'd imagine an out of body experience to be like. I'm outside looking in.

There's all very natural with each other and seem to enjoy one anothers company. I'm not apart of any of that. And in a way, that's okay, because I'd become overwhelmed or resentful quickly. But at other times it's lonely.

I totally understand

Oh. Well, THAT is 'normally' known as "Self-Pity".

They feel like another species.

I feel like I'm from another planet.

Nothing because I have been seeing them almost every day for 6 decades now.

I feel scared. I try not to upset them.

I have a lot of admiration for people who are skilled communicators, but other than that, I'm me and they're them.

I've always felt bitter about me having this label and others not. I have 12 cousins, and they are all NTs. It used to make me angry when I was younger. OK, maybe 2 of my cousins might have some spectrum traits, but they've always been better at making friends than I have and their 'spectrum traits' didn't seem to affect them the way it affected me. For a female with only mild high-functioning Asperger's, I was very poor at making friends as a teenager, and it made me angry with myself.

Thankfully it doesn't get to me so much like it used to, probably because of being on meds.

It doesn't affect me. I don't think anything of it. They're just people I don't know well & I'm quiet around anyone I don't know well.

I do too. I feel like I'm not human. I guess that's why this forum is called Wrong Planet.

Yes, NT's have problems but those problems are usually caused by the lives they lead, in other words they have lives, they don't just exist. When I think like that I get very upset.

I try to see comparing myself to others as like a dog comparing itself to a cat and getting upset because it can't purr. We aren't like them, we can't do things the same way they do but the more I compare the less I concentrate on what I can do. Either I make a life for myself with what I can do or I have no life, I don't know if I'll succeed but comparing and feeling bitter haven't got me anywhere so far except sobbing on the living room floor (this last weekend) Out of all the things I could have spent my weekend off doing to make my life a little bit better, I chose that