I'm not used to this attention.... what can I do?

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I was walking to McDonald's to get a drink and when I walked in a group of people who are in my college class got my attention.

They had invited me to the cinema earlier on in the day but I didn't know were we where going to meet up and I never asked so I didn't go. I said hello to them, bought my drink and walked away.
Usually people ignore me and let me get on with my errands but this threw me off guard. I wasn't ready so I couldnt go and start talking to them.

When I went to class though I noticed everyone seems different towards me, like they aren't including me so much anymore. I'm much more used to that but I'm trying to make progress socially so I don't actually want that.

Also we had to do group work today and I didn't want to, because the task we had to do was so easy and I already knew the answers without having to spend 20 minutes working with people to find answers I already know. Why did we have to do group work when everybody knows the answers already?! That's annoying. It takes too much effort and Its inefficient. If I just read the text book I can take in 80% of it and that's quicker too.

My aspie traits are starting to show now

I feel you OP. I have been in similar predicaments. Unfortunately, a lot of NT's and extroverts in general seem to view the lack of participation in group activities as arrogance for some odd reason and this will consequently lead to social isolation.

Although we may think it's useless and absolute utter waste of everyone's time, we unfortunately will have to deal with it and take part - well, in the best way that we can. How we go about doing that, I don't know. I am still trying to figure it out myself. XD

Thanks for sharing this story starfox. I learned from your "mistake".

Ah I don't mind group work sometimes but it seems to be nearly every day and in every lesson and the teacher goes over the same thing again and again. I wish I was born in the time when people didn't talk in class and just read the text book. That would be very good for me. It's all very difficult all the time. I told the tutor that the task was bull and said the group work is dumb in front of everyone. .. We are supposed to be an adult class, not a middle school class. I want to just get on with learning now and I can't if I have to focus on socialising. I wish everyone else was like me.

Group work is as much about learning to work in a group as it is about finding the answers to the given questions: those questions are just a crutch to get you to do work.

As for the McD behaviour: you didn't show up at the cinema, so they assumed you couldn't go, for whatever reason.
Seeing you at McDs showed that you did have time, and could have gone to the cinema. The fact that you didn't go and also didn't tell them makes the group feel ignored.
This will make the group less likely to include you in the future, as you are "going to be a no-show again anyway".

Hey, Starfox..sorry to hear that you felt sad…I wanted to give a little help..If I could..

I would say that it's very important for you to try to get to know each other and act as friendly as possible at least in this early stage of your semester…I know it's hard for you to do that..but it will reward you in the end..

Every student would not know others well. They as well have bit of awkward, unfamiliar, nervous feelings to each other. Even unintended trivial acts can push them away, hurt them away as they are more vulnerable to ignorance especially in this early stage. Even though they look like one group, each group member highly possibly doesn't have membership yet. They would try to be united as one group where the absence of even one member could break the group big time. They possibly feel uncomfortable in working as a group like you do…

When you think that they are ignoring you, they may as well think you are ignoring them.

You may have hurt these people's feelings.

Something very much like this happened with a friend of mine and a guy we went to school with. She was sitting in a restaurant by herself and he came in by himself, saw her, turned around and sat alone in the other room. It really hurt her feelings and she references it years later. But he left school right after that because of a family problem. He was doing well and just walked out on a degree. His dad was dying or something like that. I don't know if my friend connects the two, but I figure that he was having problems and needed to be alone.

You might want to approach one of this group of people and explain what you just said here. It might save a lot of hurt feelings. In the future they'll remember to give you more details. If they see you doing something that looks weird to them they'll realize that you may have something going on that they don't know about and they'll just let it go.