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BirdInFlight
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09 Sep 2016, 4:17 pm

By humans, mostly no. The situation in which I feel the most accepted is when I'm around animals. There are certain animals I know who have shown me more love, trust, acceptance and even protection than most of the humans I've known.

I have some extraordinary stories about animals who have taken me "under their wing" way more than humans have.



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09 Sep 2016, 4:32 pm

My point is....you'd be in an environment where people mind their own business, and do their own thing.

Then I realized....that I'm such an Aspie....you were probably being witty.



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09 Sep 2016, 7:15 pm

On here, yes
At school and in real life, no


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09 Sep 2016, 7:33 pm

GENERALLY-speaking, YES----but, I don't really care what people think of me.

SPECIFICALLY-speaking, NO; I'm not usually accepted by people I work with, and I care a LITTLE bit----or, at least, TRY to ACT like I do----but only cuz I want to keep my job.











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10 Sep 2016, 12:51 pm

I feel that I've been getting a great deal of acceptance by friends and strangers in my community since I've started wearing my helmets in January. I feel that my family is more accepting of me now than they were even just 2 months ago.

It's like that old saying, "Be yourself and people will like you more."


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10 Sep 2016, 5:36 pm

For me it depends on who the people are that I might feel accepted or rejected by. I seem able to get on with pretty much anybody, but I notice differences in outlook and perspective that are often so great that I wouldn't last long if I had to live among them indefinitely. I can only stay accepted at all with them by hiding a lot of who I am, and that's a very empty experience for me, because to me they're not really accepting me, they're accepting a mask I feel I have to wear to keep them sweet. Luckily there have been people with whom I've needed to do very little masking, and it's with them that I feel accepted in a much more profound way. Of course it's rarely completely binary, most individuals are somewhere along a line between the two extremes.

The question is hard for me to answer because I don't approach many people, I very rarely ask to hang out with them socially, so I don't often find out whether they'd accept me or not, because I don't often give them anything to accept or reject. I don't really look for friends, I just wait until either they find me or circumstances (such as a common interest, especially in music) push us together and we find out whether or not it works. I don't think I've ever so much as sent a Facebook friend request. I guess, considering how non-proactive I am in that respect, I must be reasonably popular and likeable, or I'd be completely alone, and I'm not.



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11 Sep 2016, 3:49 pm

No

I am sometimes accepted if I pretend to be a NT, but that's just acting and it's very tiring.

If I'm 'me' I'm absolutely not accepted, anywhere or by anyone - including my husband.

My entire life is a fake act.


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11 Sep 2016, 5:04 pm

No, bc who I am is not accepted by society.



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11 Sep 2016, 7:34 pm

Abused, scapegoated, rejected and even avoided are words I'm more familiar with.

With a lot of guts, grit and determination I'm slowly learning to accept myself though.



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12 Sep 2016, 11:55 pm

In very small capacities, yes. In general NO

Particular people or small groups that are able to open up and EMBRACE

On the whole, don't feel I can be my authentic self and be accepted. True with folks I technically should be able to feel that way around, but it just isn't.

I get along extremely well with animals