banana247 wrote:
It saddens me to agree with this wholeheartedly... I was quite popular as a kid in school but now relationships are such a struggle. I'm jealous of my younger self in that respect.
One thing that I think happened with me is that when you're kid, it's "cool" to be the "smart kid", and in my school, everyone liked the teachers, so it was "cool" to be popular among the teachers. I was the smart kid and always got a lot of attention for my projects, papers, grades, etc. Once you start getting into middle school, nerdy is suddenly a big negative and it's cool to be a slacker. Also, people start to rebel against "adults", so being favored by the teachers makes you a pet and a loser.
Also, being a smart kid made me good at video games, video game hacks and cheats, coding websites, building robots and models of things, etc, all "nerdy" things that are really cool to pretty much all kids when you're young. As you grow, most people begin to manage all the basics of these things on their own and they become much more socially oriented, and it simply becomes the bad "nerdy" to be extra good at these things.
Yup, it's always when social life becomes more normalized in adolescence that our real pain begins. Personally, I'm envious of The Big Bang Theory group. Such a great group of cerebral nerds who all accept one another. And most people who look into it agree that Sheldon is an aspie.
Lol, I don't think Sheldon is the only one. I think Raj and Amy are both on the spectrum as well.
1. Amy has problems understanding other people's personal space and jumps into things. She also can get a little too personal.
2. Raj had trouble communicating with women along with connecting with them and can't seem to find or keep a relationship.
Perhaps Stewart is on the spectrum as well but you notice that they act like a clique and mistreat him. There are lots of people with Asperger's who mistreat others as well.
19 May 2017, 10:24 pm
