At my school having AS was considered cool!! !! !!

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Ten years ago I started going to Grainville Secondary School in Jersey Channel Island the new CDP department had opened for people Autism/Asperger Syndrome. Me and two other where the first people to be in this unit and because of this we were different from everyone we were like celebrities in our year and as it was all new everyone wanted to get to know us also we got a lot of respect from a lot of people I think I have only met 2 maybe 3 people who were quite bad about us and thought we were odd. But everyone liked us it carried on the whole time we were at secondary. We had people looking out for us all the time as well.

This is all true hope I am not being big headed but the reason why I'm talking about this is you can have AS and still be respected by people. You just have to look around.

I was talking to a few friends about autism earlier today.
One of them was a complete s*******w about it, even though an autistic kid lives across the street from him.
The other two were more open-minded.

hell yeah i no its awsome!! ! i dont have a special unit thingy at my 6th form/ secondry school like yours but people realise im a little odd and find it refreshing. those who don'tknow me just find me wierd but they think i have a strange past which i also find amusing. the only problem is that theres one one other person i know who has aspergers but he left last year. i wish i could find out if any others has it, without being rude. i dont fancy sifting through peoples medical records or asking them out-straight.

stef xx

That sounds like one cool school! I myself only go part-time to a school with 14 other kids (in the whole thing), so I don't really know what's it like to be the odd negelected Aspie. I'm glad at that school it's cool though!

They were not fake friends they were genuine anyway if anyone were to annoy me they were unpopular infact I remember one new boy coming into the school he was to put in easy terms and without swearing quiete horrible he left after one term he couldn't make any friends and yes he was NT. It was because of the way he was towards people especially in my unit was why he left. No one liked him.

Some kinds of autism spectrum people are considered cool, at least, in my son's old high school. A quiet, mysterious brilliant, mathy, sciencey guy was intriguing to a lot of students.

Normal people are starting to find Asperger's sexy. I think it has to do with the fact that we're different. Maybe it's non-gender specific exoticism. All I know is people somehow think it's "cool."

Now whether or not they think certain people with Asperger's are uncool, that depends on the person.

Good point. I was accepted a lot more readily after I learned to curb my meltdowns and handle stress better. I actually made friends.

Interesting I have never heard of that.

I disagree there because you have to remember this was ten years ago Jersey Channel Island. Autism wasn't really known and they only had little resources there you can't really say fake friends about the school or the weird sci fi kid you had to have been there to understand what I am saying. I don't know what you are going on about with the fake friends business or sci fi kid. It does sound very harsh.

That would have been nice. Course I wasn't diagnosed at the time, but knowing my school, it wouldn't have made much difference.