Aspies:what were you like in high school

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and middle school?


Not just stereotypes, but your actual thoughts and feelings.

Gonna expand later, but got no time now.

I was quite nerdy and video gamey untill 15 and only really talked to nerdy males. but getting into rock music and the alternative scene after 15 opened up lots of social doors for me.

I was a totally different person, making a lot more social gaffes even compared to now.

Academically, I was extremely bright in most subjects, with the exception of technical one(art, music, woodwork, metalwork, home economics).

Socially, I was a figure of almost universal hatred, at least where it counted which was in my own year group.

I was quietly rebellious.

And I hated school.

In grade school, it was sometimes embarrassing to be one of the best students and have teachers suggesting others should be like me. In Jr. High, it was embarrassing to not always have white socks like all the "cool" guys had ... and then in High School, it was embarrassing to show up with white socks only to be told those were only for Jr. High. At that point, I just threw up my hands in defiant despair and began wearing the gaudiest socks I could find anywhere.

Throughout my life, I had never found good ways to deal with any of those kinds of things until after someone had told me about others folks like ourselves over here at WrongPlanet.

well I was very focused in my studies and not very good in PE and I real into science and the AV room-I was a loner and had one good friend and that was it-I was the only one in my class to have perfect attendance from 8th grade on.

Quirky and artistic. Very high scores in verbal/reading, fail in math, which confounded my HS guidance counselor. People were not aware that smart kids could have learning disabilities..I definitely had them but I compensated. A lot.

I basically did not care what others thought of me, I had a couple good friends and nope never went to the prom...

By junior year I was dead bored and really wanted to leave HS but my parents made it clear that was not an option.

Fortunately for me I had a couple people who got me, otherwise I would have been very lonely indeed. I went to a very small public HS, so it wasn't like being in the maw of a big HS where people traveled in packs....and oh yeah, there was no social media, so you either talked on the phone, which I hated, or saw people in person. Radical I know.

I am getting all nostalgic but I think it was a kinder time to be a teenager.

i spent most of my high school years in psychiatric units.

when i was released into the real high school systems, i failed to comply and i was returned to the psychiatric units.

i had an extremely hard time trying to obey teachers. i saw them as annoying obstacles. i mostly refused to comply with their directions no matter what they said.

i thought "how dare you tell me what to do!!" and i was always defiant in every way.

when people order me to do what they whimsically decide, i will not comply.

i was expelled from every high school i was enrolled in.

Aloof and isolated.

I had only one friend. I spent all my free time at school with him. We would talk randomly during recess and lunch. However, we rarely saw each other after class or during the summer, even though we lived maybe 300 m apart. For one year, I tried not to be with that friend because I wanted to meet new people, and I thought that if I only was with him, I would not meet anyone else. Result: I was alone entirely for one year.

Especially in grades 3 to 5 (14 to 17 y.o.), I talked a lot with the teachers, even those whose class I didn't like. I had good relations with them, I think.

I was very disorganized and disorderly. We always stayed in the same class and had a personnal desk with all our books, etc. Mine was always the most messy. I often forgot my books at home.

I was bullied, too. I would not say I didn't not care what the others thought of me (I would have rather preferred they not bully me), but the fact remains that I didn't try to please them, only not to antagonize them. I didn't care about clothes or anything, but then, there was a dress code.

I had decent grades, but I was in an elitist private school. I would imagine that I would have had top grades in a normal one. They varied a lot with the interest I put in any class. I had high grades in latin and history, and low ones in math and arts. There was no link between the effort spent and my grade, so I didn't study much (I still don't in college).

I faked sickness to avoid class several times, but mostly when I was late on projects or when I had a presentation to do, not because I didn't want to go. In any case, my mother was less credulous than the school nurse.

Due to anxiety problems I had to have home schooling although went in increasingly more as secondary school progressed. When I was there though I was very quiet and rather withdrawn. I did get a bit more confident as time went on though but was still very shy and anxious.

Got on with everyone really. I drifted between people so they all knew me no matter what group they had.

I think I just didn't want to stay in one group for too long in my latter years after what happened the year before I went into Year 10.

Well, lets see.

I hated it. My girl friend was in her 30's and taught me all about sex. I loved her deeply. I got mostly good grades but hung out with much older people. School was just there, and I was somewhere else. Besides, I have the cutest little red head for a girl friend. I was a nonconformist. Saw the world very black and white. Challenged authority if rules made no sense. Defied the prediction of failure by attending a Catholic school and getting all A's.

An extreme loner. I was bullied aLOT in elementary school & I quit being bullied when I switched schools in middle of 6th grade but I still hated being around people. I HATED school too. I struggled aLOT because I'm dyslexic & I have a rare genetic low vision disorder that wasn't identified till my senior year in high-school; lots of school learning is visual & I'm NOT a visual person at all. Anyways I had LOTs of fights & nasty meltdowns with my parents over school stuff. I Just wanted everyone to leave the the hell alone. Wanted to stay in my room watching TV or playing video-games while listening to the college rock station & not see my parents except for food

I was somewhat into CB then and my girl friend was a lady truck driver.

Hung out at many bars and with bands. My High School was far away. We lived on the line actually. So I did not see many from there in the evenings. The world of radio provided me access to much older people. My lady friend was injured in a bad truck wreck that was not her fault and spend time on disability. I drove her to appointments and we became best of friends and lovers.

Now today I am into Amateur Radio so I guess the radio thing has never left me. Obsessions still exist. Back then there was no internet either. You really felt isolated. I grew in surrounded by farm country.