I feel like i'm an outsider...

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if i go out with my family its like i'm in the background & like i'm not even there sometimes, an some days it gets me really down. i know im alot different from all my family, i'm the quiet & shy one i don't really say alot. not the type to say "heyyyyy hello how are you" - the loud sort of person. my family are more the loud an outgoing people an i just sit there without saying a word.

I just hate feeling like this & try not to feel like it but in the past month or two this is how i feel. i'm not very good at explaining as you can tell. maybe.


if someone is in the same sort of situation or understands what im saying, or , trying to say. i would like it if someone messaged me via inbox, it would be nice to share feelings about it

thanks in advance all

I feel like that too in social gatherings. I usually don't speak until asked. On better days I am more outgoing, but never able to hold it up for too long.

I feel like that EVERYWHERE!! ! Even here on WP. I really don't belong amongst you.

Me too.

What happened though was I was always the one with the camera. I'd be a
high speed picture taking machine. Some folks like it and some don't when
it comes to taking their picture but most see it (and me?) as part of the party.

This was in the days before digital so it may be easier (and cheaper) now. And
it gave me something positive to contribute with a minimum of interactive conversation.

Before I was diagnosed (at age 69) I sometimes thought hiding behind the camera
cut me off from full interaction with others, but now I think it was a defense mechanism
that kept me involved without too many difficult encounters.

Aw come on, what are you talking about? What makes you think you don't belong here? This is THE place for us Aspies/autistics!

ImAnAspie - you're quite welcome here at WP. Pull up a chair and grab a drink.

I took decades for me to be somewhat social but I'm fortunate now in that I have a small circle of people around me that put up with me and are OK with the way I am.