Do you feel like the odd one out on Wrong Planet?

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i will say that this place has a lot more old folks than i expected when i signed up. there's been a few times that i feel like i'm the only one under 30 in a particular thread....granted, that hardly lasts, but eh.

there's several members on here that i didn't expect to be older women.

couple that with my all lowercase writing, tendency to spout nonsequiturs (shamed) and my general inexperience in everything and it's not at all surprising that many of my posts are seemingly completely disregarded.

not by me.

^ and i am immensely grateful

us aspies oughta stick together

For myself, I am on the very high functioning end of Autism with Asperger's Syndrome but I also have OCD, ADHD, Bipolar Disorder and PTSD. I am able to live on my own but that has always been a very precarious situation both for getting evicted and for holding down a job as I've been fired and suspended and quit many times. So I can't really say I've succeeded at living on my own and I would call it just treading water - per se.

As far as being odd ball goes there are so many of us who consider ourselves to be odd and unusual but that is why we come to these forums named Wrong Planet - rightly so. We all believe we're on the wrong planet. You're in good company and not all of us have been able to succeed at living on our own myself included.

There are many here who are actually nonverbal Autistic who need a great deal of support so Autism is a very different picture for every one of us as there are many different types of Autism and it affects us all in different ways. Many of us and myself included, have several neuroses that go along with being Autistic so the number of computational differences is literally endless with variances that are vastly different in intensity and effectiveness.

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*** High Functioning Autism - Asperger's Syndrome ***

ADHD, OCD, and PTSD.

Keep calm and stim away.

^^ What Xatrix said.

I'm pretty verbal *here* and have had long stretches in the past where I was able to "pass" and market my writing skill, which allowed me to hold a job. It had a very high cost. All I could do was get up, go to work, work, come home, collapse and recharge. This is not a life, and no amount of income will make it a life. I lost relationships, friendships, acquaintances because nobody "got" why I was so completely wrung out. Mostly because they didn't care enough to invest any thought into it, or me.

I also have PTSD from near-constant workplace bullying over the entire 30+ years I was in the workforce - I was good enough to exploit, and different enough to be a fun target for what my doctor in Switzerland called "psychoterrorism". Fun times. Decades of them.

And I have IBS-D. And a bad heart, and one bad eye (all my life. Wasn't dyspraxia enough? Guess not.), and asthma, and until I gained a little weight, chronic bronchitis / walking pneumonia every winter.

But I *look* good. So I also got to deal with stalkery creeps from the time I was 16 through the present day.

Fun times indeed.

This (WP) is the last place where I'd expect anyone to assume that we know the entirety of a person just from their posts. Even though we do tend to be more open and self-disclosing, with Asperger's - there will still be surprises, and the person whose posts sound like they really have it together *might* really have it together but still be dealing with some serious, permanent stuff - a la Purple Heart recipient T. Duckworth....

When you read her speeches, or listen to them, you can't see the prosthetic limbs. But she knows they're there. They'll be there for the rest of her life.

Kiprobalhato,

You aren't disregarded by me, either. I find your posts very interesting.

I feel like the odd one out, because I have innocent special interests that are seen as cringe worthy by the majority of the human population anywhere. I'm also a very old soul, almost from a different time. Frozen in 1941, thawed in 2016. I've just really started being myself a couple of years ago, more of a Canadian with other influences.

I remember feeling like I was too old for WP between 2010 and 2014. I felt that I was too old, because my favourite band was and still is The Kinks. I felt that I was being hounded for it by some of the younger members during that time period.

The Kinks are well-liked for good reason.

They are timeless.

I probably would have benefited from meeting Esme when I was a young man....

I needed her "guiding light" then....

I feel like I'm the only one on this site who was constantly disciplined as a child. Most people on here seem to have been picked on. That wasn't me.

I was constantly disciplined as a child....and bullied, too