While growing up with my 'friends' as we got older they would have others over, and id feel like an outsider cause they would all be gathered in conversation and when I tryed to join in id eather get a bunch of stupid looks or someone would say "dont worry about it" refering to what they were talking about, as i tryed to get involved.
I find, often, when someone wants your opinion and you join in the conversation circle, its best to give them a false opinion, its best to say the kind of stuff nessissary to fit in, generally, you gotta reach the same conclusion as NT's
Now, i have all NT friends (tho id love to meet someone like me in person) I have met some good, and many bad NT's (peer group). Because we may be more logical, more apt to say whats on our mind, more deductive, maby more perceptive to some things, NT's (in my peer group anyways) did not like this, caused me to stick out like a sour thumb, instead of praising me for being smart (for example, i was the only one who could figure out how to find the correct wheel berring for our go cart) they ridiculed me for being a nerd and saying 'the wrong things'
Its a tough balance, over the years I got better, its good to be an individual, yourself, but also, if you wanna belong you gotta be at their level (often we must dumb down just a notch) we dont always have to be the smartest in the group (because we know we already typically are)
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DX'ed with HFA as a child. However this was in 1987 and I am certain had I been DX'ed a few years later I would have been DX'ed with AS instead.