Yigeren wrote:
zkydz wrote:
Yigeren wrote:
Nobody likes me...
I'm not sure anyone has ever hated me, just strongly disliked me enough to make my life miserable.
????? I think you're pretty spiffy....what gives?
Thanks
People in "real life" don't like me. Actually they just think I'm weird, usually. In elementary school the kids made fun of me and thought I was strange.
Then for a year the bad kids liked me because I acted out. Then I moved, and I got picked on, mostly by a group of girls along with some boys.
Many relatives have treated and continue to treat me like dirt. The only difference now is that their disdain is more subtle. Well, they think they're being subtle
They hate me because I'm just too much fun to despise. They must enjoy feeling superior.
I will paraphrase something a wise woman told me once. I was telling her that in all my years, nobody has ever called up and just said hey, how ya doing. No friends. No follow up. She asked me if it was the way I came across that made things the way they are.
It's a realization that I had been coming to anyway, but it did reinforce that I have a lot to do with it too. You grow up, never fitting in. Never being able to understand social things that just seem so easy to others. Those types of things. The difference is that I moved a bit and I am the only common denominator. Different areas of the country, couple of times out of country. Same results. It's got to be me.
And it's frozen me in my tracks. Afraid....no, terrified to move forward because I don't know what's going on outside my head. Not ever being able to tell who to trust. Never being able to tell when people are lying or the difference between social lies and meaningful lies. The overwhelming inconsistencies that plague my every day. The unexpected outbursts when overwhelmed.
This is how bad it has been all my life. I was in high school sitting with a guy (one of the few who would hang with me) and he turned and asked me one day, "Why do you always ask why people do things?" I didn't realize I was doing it. But, in retrospect, I guess I was just building my database.
So, I get it. Aye, and, I still think yer purty spiffy there lassie. (Gotta read that with a Scottish accent...just had Robin Williams dance through my head)
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Diagnosed April 14, 2016
ASD Level 1 without intellectual impairments.
RAADS-R -- 213.3
FQ -- 18.7
EQ -- 13
Aspie Quiz -- 186 out of 200
AQ: 42
AQ-10: 8.8