Do you feel like an outsider, even here at Wrong Planet?

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Yes. Even here sometimes.

Yes, especially with all the people who look down on people because they don't have a girlfriend. (or boyfriend)

Like its so easy for them and they have a diagnosis so it can't be that hard for anyone else.

Yes. Sometimes on WP I've had great responses to my posts, and then for a while I feel OK, but I only have to be "ignored" for a day or two before I start to feel unnoticed again. Of course there's a negative bias in the way I see it - just because nobody responds directly to a post doesn't mean that it's been ignored.....but without proof, it's easy for low self-esteem to barge in and conclude that the whole exercise is a failure. Then of course there's the intangibility of the whole online social game, full of people who live hundreds of miles away, people I'll probably never see. I don't feel like an outsider in the sense of thinking that everybody else is getting some wonderful closeness that they won't give to me, I tend to imagine that most people here feel much the same way as I do.

In "real life" it's much the same though, despite the physical closeness and all that. I only feel right when there's been lots of evidence that I'm doing well socially - just an hour or two of anything less and I feel like I've been dragged back to my teenage years when I was making a complete mess of social stuff. I guess I judge my social performance very harshly, as if it were an exam in which I fail myself whenever I don't get 11 out of 10. It makes no difference that I know how biased my judgement is - I can only correct the bias on an intellectual level.....the feelings remain the same. I suppose society just isn't geared up to providing the constant reassurance I'd need to really feel accepted, and I'm not geared up to asking for it.

Today, I do feel like an outsider. People are talking about abortions, body image and how being on the spectrum makes them sad. I'm also aware of two things. WP is a democracy, so everybody is intitled to their own opinions, and WP is my only support system, apart from my clubhouse. That's why I keep coming back. I also feel more HFA, than AS coming here. There's nothing wrong with that.

Happy music.....

Thank you for acknowlaging my post....ya sometimes I feel that folks get stuck on a specific poster, and other times I feel that I am not radical enough to be acknowleged. I can be very radical in my views from time to time, but as my mom's exboyfriend said, "She knows the score, but often does not say"

I feel like that most of the time here. I don't get into the random chatter much, I don't play the games section, nor ever chat, it's just not my style I guess. I also think part of my problem is that, even though I am diagnosed, most of my life I lived as they say, "NT." I had to to survive, it wasn't a choice.

I don't seem to identify with some members difficulties with dating, some social behavior, etc. It's funny how you find out you have something that explains why you were the way you were, out of the loops from most everyone else, then you find a site that has people who deal with many of the same issues, and you still feel outside the loop.

No. People here at WP have been very accepting of me. What few people I know in real life who aren't related to me are also very accepting of me. I don't know what it is about me that people find endearing; I'm just generally thought of as being "cute" or "sweet:.

I'm an outsider everywhere. I've never really felt 100% part of any place I go to. Maybe it's a bit better here since people are overall nicer, but I still never really feel like a part of things.

So, the majority of active members feel like outsiders? LOL, us Aspies are funny.

BTW, spooky13, I like that avatar. "It's easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone." Very true.