Urist wrote:
I don't like that almost everyone I meet in high school already knows my name when I've barely, if ever seen them before. They also somehow know some bastardised version of my personality too, and it's just confusing to me. I mean, within the first week or two almost everyone seemed to know who I was and I knew maybe 10 names at best. Even now I only know about 100 or so names at max; I'm terrible with names and honestly don't care about most of the people I meet.
The story of My life....
Especially in high school, A friend who went there knew about me before we had really met and i said really why? essentially because everyone was talking about me and my not yet tamed personality quirks that came out.
Apparently everyone somehow knew I was autistic and that especially pissed my off.
.. I feel i have essentially alienated the whole department at my college.. I at least feel alienated either because
1. i have made such foolish and embarrassing mistakes that I feel so uncomfortable and inferior that i just take a disliking to them and want nothing to do with them..
2. I don't like them because they the undergrad students not as smart as me (yes ego trip claim but the fact is i always know the answer, make the better discussion points with of course as many foot in mouth moments, but i smoke'em charred and falling apart like kindle under a flame thrower).
3. because of my AS I have trouble hiding my temper and mood so like everyone else who knows me they think they have to tip toe around me.
They are all very nice but with a few caveats I get so frustrated with them indulging and humoring the stupidity of the other students that I can't take them seriously as a scholar or teacher. I suspect they know i have autism which pisses me off even more because i don't want to be the Cuba gooding junior Radio charity case. And what really frustrates me is that just at the cusp of graduating i have managed to learn social norms to look like normal adult and have learned to control my temper.
I hate the department but love the subject. I hate it so much I do all i Can to avoid being in the department offices because I feel anxious and trapped. i refer to it as the gothic dark tower.
Because of my mistakes i feel less than a respectable human being to them so therefore I reject and hate them since I feel its too late to undo the impression I had left unwillingly and unwittingly. I guess they forget and therefore forgive and smile and say high but I can't Forget, and I therefore I always believe they remember too. Sometimes spontaneously i utter pray : Please God Forget Me.! !!