Anyone know how to deal with cliques?

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I'm a freshman at college right now and although my grades are very good my social life isn't. I try to figure out how to make friends but whenever it seems like I'm going to make one I keep running into the same problem. Everytime it seems like someone is becoming friendly to me they get incorporated into some clique and then all of a sudden refuse to acknowledge my existence as they walk past me, even if they're not with the clique. After much work I am now decent at one on one conversation, but I suck whenever there are multiple people around. I'm trying very hard to be social but it never completely works because of this issue. It was never this bad in high school. My hatred of the human race is growing every day. Does anyone have any suggestions that could help me or others with this problem with this?

I had the same problem. I tried to befriend people, and some person would come over to me at lunchtime and steal them away into some clique. I've never managed to fix the problem.

I tend to avoid cliques. These are completely different from a group of friends. Cliques generally tend to have one influential 'leader' that the rest of the group suck up to because they cannot think for themselves. Why would anyone want to hang out with a hapless bunch of idiots like that anyway? I would rather be alone than subject myself to that crap.

Avoid 'em!

I ignore them and do my own thing.

cliques suck, even most intelligent NT people will tell you that. Most are pretty superficial too, and likely will not take well to someone with AS...

Let me see if I can be more direct. I know cliques suck, that's why I posted this. My problem is that from what I can tell about where I am think I am the only person who isn't in one, making avoiding them quite difficult. Maybe I can't tell the difference between a clique and a group of friends but if I can't tell then there is little difference between the two because groups of friends seem to be just as exclusionary. People suck that way.

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In most college classes these days there are older students and foreign students, they tend to not be in cliques.

In the first two years community college classes tend to not be as cliquish because
a) They are mostly commuter students not dormies
b) A lot of non-traditional students

find the outcasts and befriend them. take notice of the commuters, for they, automatically have something in common with you. there has to be someone who hates the cliques as much as you do. then again, i wasn't all that "friendly" or "popular" at school, so you might be asking the wrong crowd. if you look around your cafeteria/school lounge, there has to be a coupla other people in the same position as you. it's still your freshman year at college, there is time for you yet.

Well I have to point out that cliques are really a group of people who share interests. It's not like a 'gang' or anything like that. I reckon a few of you could certainly 'join' one....but then again it's not 'joining', like a fraternity or something. It's just that if you get on with them and you share interests, you'll just 'blend in' to it.

However, it is true that cliques talk about other cliques and mock their interests, such as Goths and Chavs. Goths like rock, chavs like techno etc. Some even fight. But that's just stupid, and you certainly be part of a 'clique' without getting involved in that. It's usually a hyper-tensive indevidual within the clique who'll fight, and you can certainly be part of the clique without getting involved in THAT.

Anyway you shouldn't be indimitated by the idea of cliques. If you hate the ways of one clique it goes to show you're really aligned with another!

If you want the clique to show interest in you, you have to show interest in the clique. If you believe yourself to be compatible (ie are you from the same hometown, same year, major, activities), start contributing to the clique. This means finding cool stuff to do, "Hey guys, what are you doing on friday? My friend is having this party...". Now, if you don't know about any parties going on, you need to meet more people! Join a club, team, or fraternity. The more people you know, the more people will know you and invite you to things, and the better time you will have.