How Are Your Relationships With Your Peers?

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I am afraid of the vast majority of my peers. Negative feedback loop.

I get along with my peers but I still feel different, and I don't like spending too much time with them.

I am an Old Aspie (73). I have adapted myself be be comfortable among the NTs without being an NT. I am married to an NT and all but one of my children seem to be NT. Since I am rules oriented, I learned how to break down living with NTs into tasks or modules then I mastered each one. Now I can ever "pass" for NT, when I am in the company of NTs. I don't do this because I am ashamed to be an Aspie. I do this to minimize hassles and friction. Life is much too short be be hung up by unnecessary difficulty.

So to answer you question I get along fine with both my Apie peers and my NT peers.

ruveyn

Ditto.

I have no friends. No real peers in the workplace either. I can't say that I relate to or spend much time with any other human beings right now (other than my son and his mother). I don't feel exactly great about that, but it's not something I dwell on. The plants in my garden are fascinating company.

my best friend is my age but most of my friends are about 2 or so years younger than me. I've never really got on with my "peers". I find that younger people find my sense of humour funny where-as the people my age think I'm just immature

The main pressure that I ever have felt around my peers was their pressure, and at times a very discourtesy pressure at that, of their wishing that I were somewhere else. And when I realized this, I began wishing it, too.

Hell no. Most of the time they bore me to death.

Most of my peers are pretty odd themselves. I have a mostly passive relationship with the majority.

That all depends on how how you define 'peers.' If I were to define it as 'Intellectual/artistic/philosophical people with generally liberal political leanings, shared interests and mensa-level IQs,' then I do very well, regardless of their age or ethnicity. If I were to define 'peers' in the more traditional sense, meaning people of my own age group and socio-economic class and/or ethnicity, then I can get by, so long as the interaction remains brief and superficial.

i get along fine with all sorts of people my skating menotr is 29 ( iam 17) he teaches me all sorts of call skateboard tricks and gives me free cd,s of his punk/ emo/ hardcore band set fire to wicker park. I havep plenty of older skate freinds in their earley 20's to mid 30's. the people my age who are preppies or jocks i get along ot an extent with but they are too mainstream for my tastes. all my freinds mix sexes are skaters bmxers and surfers between the ages of 10 and 19( iam 17) since I am those 3 things. i also have quite a few emo, goth and punk freinds since it goes with the culture i am into (skateboading , bmxing, surfing)my best freinds in these order are 1. (male - 17) mahmut colak skater/gangster 2. (female- 17) kaya chronos emo/goth/punk 3. abe kapella ( male- 14) skater / disco king 4. jesse anderson(male- 16) hardcore skater/ bmxer/ snowboader punk 5. jessica mcmanus ( female- 13) skater/ goth/ emo those are the type of people i hang out with rebels to socaity like me.

I like the company of those who love me. I like the company of my pitbull. I like the company of 'sweet' little children. I like the company of people who are 'innocent' and therefore trustworthy and predictable. I do not like the company of 'fake socializers'.

Thats weird. Same here.

I tend to get along better with older people (especially when telling them my odd theories or whatever is related to the class for example), i get along so and so with the younger folk. I can't seem to get along too well with most people my age, but there has been exceptions. =/ I guess that as "little professors" we only get along with those that also teach, and those who wish to learn... =/

I do get along better when there is an age difference, as it allows me to behave in one of my two more normal states, that of a child, and that of the extremely mature person who enjoys talking on a level for those who are more educated.

As for peers... I don't think I have anyone around me I would call a friend... and I find that sad in some ways. Worse yet, I don't know how to get into a relationship, and all I want in life is to raise a family, and I can't even hit the first step...

Poor.

the same for me is true