People with aspergers and notoriety

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the diiference between shy people and those with AS is that most people with AS are not invisible. In my university almost everybody in the whole campus knows me. I'm simply known as " that wierd guy". Don't get me wrong I'm definitely not popular but I'm very famous. Never in my life have I complained about being invisible.

I was pretty known in my art school. But it was mainly because of the resemblance between me and the most popular guy in the school (but i don't think I looked like him)
And i have no idea about graphic design school, but one of my classmate has said to me that i was well known... in a negative way. I don't know what i did.

I am known as the weird guy too. Sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for bad reasons.

I didn't get diagnosed until 29 but I was always the weird guy.

Back in junior high and high school I was in the unenviable position of being one of the couple of weirdos that the whole school knew about, gossiped about and put down. People I had never even heard of and didn't know would come up to me in the halls and call me names, bully and hit me, vandalize my locker and steal my things, make prank calls to my house and ask my mom if she'd heard "the truth" about her daughter. One nightmarish incident involved a couple of boys I didn't know harassing me during lunch, doing a play-by-play analysis of how I ate and drank in mocking, derisive tones until I exploded in frustration and started hitting. The fight although brief had drawn a lot of attention. I quickly lost the fight and ran crying from the lunch area to escape the laughing crowd. To my horror, EVERYONE in the lunch area got up and followed me, follow-the-leader-style in one long laughing line streaming out behind me across the entire central campus open area as I fled, trying to get away. I was rescued by the janitor who told everyone off and took my hysterical crying self to the nurse's office to calm down. He also changed my locker combination several times over the school year as people kept somehow discovering it *sigh* I think I would have given *anything* just to be invisible! What a blessing!

One of the very few friends I did have told me about standing up for me in another class when complete strangers gossiped and speculated-as-gospel-truth about everything from my sexual orientation to what I did with my personal time, in and out of class. My friend reported that one guy even said how much he hated me! OMFG?? These people were unknown to me and had no idea who I was as a person, yet were perfectly willing to spread lies and gossip with the stories getting bigger with every retelling. Never underestimate the power of "delicious lies" to spread far and wide. As far as I can tell, it was me being "weird" and socially defensive that started it. People love to hate, it seems, without reason.

Yes. Since I tended to take on a joker attitude, and in school, I was a known weirdo because of the way I talked.

NeverFitsIn, I'm so sorry all of that happened to you. I was bullied too, but definitely not to such extremes. I was in middle and high school during the 2000's, and technology was used against me - my e-mail was hacked multiple times and I was harrassed online.

Luckily I had the common sense to block those people out of my life and protect myself. I studied social skills intensely as a self-defense mechanism, and fortunately college has been fine (save for a few incidents when the other parties were definitely in the wrong). Also, going to art school has definitely worked in my favor - I've found that the majority of students here have been bullied at one point or another, or at least know what it feels like to be the oddball, so people are generally respectful. I think I tend to shut people out and put on a friendly face, so I appear to be a (albeit strange) social butterfly, but I don't really get close to anyone, so I haven't given anyone anything bad to say about me. It's both a blessing and a curse.

In my time at school I was also an orientation leader for new freshmen, so I know pretty much EVERYONE on campus. My classmates are always amazed at how many people I know. To my knowledge, though, they don't have anything bad to say about me, since I try to treat everyone with respect, so I guess I'm a notorious aspie too, haha

Besides, I've noticed the social interactions that would have occured had I become very close to people - gossip, betrayal, cattiness and whining. Not worth it. It's better to be on the outside.

I work in an environment where my boss has a son with severe Autism and has the mind of a child. This is also a small business where everyone knows who each other is and so whenever someone makes a mistake at work, word travels around about it. In my case, everyone knows that I have Asperger's Syndrome but that they really don't seem to comprehend with me that well and it's sad and disappointing. I don't seem to be on good terms with the boss and most of our conversations are flowery and phoney. The majority of the time, she and most of the employees treat me like I'm half a person. For example, whenever I say hello, they will be like, "Hello," in this phoney friendly voice like everything is la-dee-da and that they are fabulous. However, when some of the other employees speak with them, it's like they're human beings and I am not and so therefore they can hold conversations with them.

I was known as the retorted kid that kept getting bullied. I would of LOVED to had been invisible

I was pretty much the person most people hated up until highschool where not everyone hated me but most people ignored my and said f****d up things when the oppurtunitys presented themselves. So I don't think invidsability or being the person everyone hates are very pleasent both are lonely and both get the same messege across.