Did you show any interest in people growing up?

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I had no interest at all, for people, didn't care one bit about people. I never tried to engage in any kind of social contact, or engage in any kind of small talk with people. I was mostly in my own world, really didn't care much about what was going on around me. Were you interested in people growing up? Did you ignore them, or did you try to engage in social situations? Did it seem like you wanted to be apart of what was going on? Somebody once told me at the hospital I work at, that people who usually get diagnosed with autism, have no interest in people what so ever, but people who get diagnosed with Aspergers or PDD-NOS do show interest in people when their children! I was wondering if that was actually true?

I can recall playing with other kids in a normal fashion.
I can also recall times when I was not interested in others at all.
I'm not sure why some situations were different than others.

For example, I wanted to play with others at recess time.
But riding the bus to and from school, I wanted to sit by myself and look out the window.

Yea I didn't care much for recess, but the bus, I was like you, loved to just sit by myself at look out the window and daydream. I can remember I had to sit in the same seat everyday and one day a kid was sitting in my seat and I freaked out, literally screamed to the top of my lungs and started hitting the kid, throw my books at the windows, it was bad, until the kid just got up and changed seats haha, he was a big kid, but he was like in total shock about how crazy I got. Hhaha, oh well, it was my seat, same seat, nobody ever sat in that seat every again haha.

When I was little (first or second grade) I used to get on the school bus after it had already made many stops. There would be two or three kids in every seat. Somehow, though, there would always be one empty seat. It made me happy, and I would sit there and stare out the window all the way to school. I think I used to hum songs, too.
Well, one day a girl in my class who also rode my bus told me why there was always an empty seat. The kids on the bus had decided I was a weirdo, and they were arranging things this way so that no one would have to sit by me. I never had any idea until she told me. I LIKED sitting by myself. But they knew I was different, and I came to know it because they told me.

I had a very profound interest in people.

Tim

As a child, I had an interest in SOME people; but they were hard to find. I guess I am the same way as an adult. Or, like the last post said, I do have a profound interest in people... but it seems that there are so many layers to GET through, that it takes so much work. A lot of other people's interesting parts are mostly hidden.

I would get interested in people. Sometimes their facial arrangements drew me, and I would try to get to know them better. But I always felt like a visiting alien, trying to study humans, LOL.

I WAS interested in people, but remember differences and some isolation by 7. The school was concerned by 6. I remember some OK sized parties even at 6. Frankly, I never understood, and still don't. I have read too many books, seen too many movies, etc... that talk TOO much about this for me to believe that it is simply because of AS.

I was interested in people and fascinated by customs around the world. I liked academic disciplines that dealt with people: history, literature, psychology, geography and medical subjects. I wasn't very social, but I enjoyed studying about people.

I was interested in people i cared about

for instance my family

but i usually played by myself in k-2nd grade during school/recess

Not really. When I was younger, I preferred to stay in my own little world. In particular I always played with Legos or those HotWheel cars.

I did not really start getting interested in other people until at least my teen years.

I didn't, the only reason I interacted with other people was to engage in activities I couldn't do myself, like catch.

People aren't real, well, that's what I thought as a "child" as I felt no attachment to them at all, nor did I seek out company. I knew that those I cared for were "real" (hence, I was interested in her), like Dave089 posted.

I'm the same now, I guess; except my "care for" list has expanded to...two.

I was never one to voluntarily interact with people much.
That really hasn't changed.
People say I should "work on it". Brilliant f*****g advice moron, I never would have thought of working on it! I'm so sick of hearing s**t like that from people, like their words are magic wands that can change me in the blink of an eye with advice that I have heard a million times before. I've had this problem my whole life, but now that YOU told me to change, suddenly a miracle has happened and I'm gonna "work on it" and maybe I'll be more social by the time I'm 90!

the moral of the story is never mess with an autie or aspie in a meltdown!


had no interest and little awareness of other people,and spent most of the time in own reality,parents and teachers regulary distracted am in an attempt to comply with their reality and keep am in it,for some reason,am can remember being very aware of and comprehending Twinkle [cat] and the guinea pigs well,unlike humans,no idea why.
the internet helped with this,it helped am to become aware of others and their opinions,until not long ago,didn't even know there was a difference between male and female,people are just people,the interest is in online stuff,not the physical bit of being human.
am still unaware of others a lot of the time,unless they come to am,and distract but not to the same extreme as it used to be.

I do have an interest in people however i find it difficult 2 read their facial expressions dat sometimes puts me off but i never give up hope i always believe in myself dat i will get a better understandin of people.