Aspies are ugly ducklings

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You guys are tripping me out, 11 years ago when I lived in Calif. people would tell me "You don't belong on planet earth." "What planet are you from?" Stuff like that, always implying that I was an alien. I entertained the idea but never took it to seriously cause it sounded so CRAZY. Used to love "Solosbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel because of the last few lines where he sings, "You can keep my things, they've come to take me home". (I'm pretty sure thats how it goes.) I also loved the line. "To keep in silence I resigned, my friends would think I was a nut"
Hearing someone else say they wondered the same thing is almost a relief for me. I'm NOT crazy, I'm an Aspie.
As for the beauty question, (sorry to go off-topic) when I was in High School and being bullied, even through I knew I was nothing to look at on the outside, I knew I posessed an inner beauty that most people would never see, because they were shallow and only judged by looks. Then when I finally turned "super-hot" I still realized I was the same person inside that I had always been. It taught me great compassion for others feelings so I guess it was a learning experience. (I would have rather "Read the book ) Now I'm getting older and am less hot (the body betrays you) but I'm still the person on the inside that I always was.

I was a cute kid, but I don't what happened to me after puberty! LOL!

Yes, I know that feeling of being an ugly duckling too, but mostly as a kid or teenager. It's not like that in my everyday life today, fortunately.

And yes: The ugly duckling indeed grew into a beautiful swan!

The author of "The Ugly Duckling" ("Den Grimme Ælling" in Danish), Hans Christian Andersen, wrote the tale as a kind of self-biographic text: He himself felt like an "ugly duckling", but then became a famous writer. He once said: "You have to go through horribly many bad things, and then you become famous" (or something like that).

BTW, some people guess that H. C. Andersen was an aspie! Funny if that's true...

I am thirty years old and am just now growing into 'hotness' thank God i still look young. I was always a 'late bloomer' in high school as well as parts of college. I have learned so much and still cannot understand any of the whole
'sexy' thing. It just feels good to see my highschool class mates getting older and fatter. That is when you are glad you never really belonged with them in the first place. I never thought i was from outer space, because the thought of the vastness of space makes me wanna crap myself. Aspie development is just sometimes slower than the rest of the world. I think we are here to remind the rest of the world that it needs to slow down sometimes and look at the world around it.

It was said that Hans Christian Andersen was dyslexic.

I don't consider myself ugly, but I'm not great looking, either. I consider myself rather plain.