I'm in highschool right now and I'm pretty smart. I try hard to do a good job and I like respecting my teachers. Apparently, that's a bad thing because people think I'm some time of freak. I can't help it! The teachers at school have been very nice to me.
Still, people act like I can't hear them when they make fun of me. At least I'm passing! I'm so mad because all these people acts like I'm a moron and I'm not! Since when was it okay to call me stupid?
Why is this so hard for me?
I'm in highschool right now and I'm pretty smart. I try hard to do a good job and I like respecting my teachers. Apparently, that's a bad thing because people think I'm some time of freak. I can't help it! The teachers at school have been very nice to me.
Still, people act like I can't hear them when they make fun of me. At least I'm passing! I'm so mad because all these people acts like I'm a moron and I'm not! Since when was it okay to call me stupid?
Why is this so hard for me?
I DELT WITH THIS ALL MY LIFE I WORK JHARD IT TAKEN ME ALONG TIME TO EVEN PASS FOR NT AT TIMES
BUT IF SOMEONE DOISNT UNDERSTAND ME THEY THINK IM SLOW AND TALK LIKE I MUST BE DEAF IT SO ANNYOING
I STILL HAVE OLDER FAMILY MEMBER WHO THINK IM MENTALY *** NO MATTER HOW MUCH MY MOM TELLS THEM I HAVE AUTISM AND A LEARING DISIBILTY .IT HARD AND UPSETING BECUSE SOME PEOPLE CANT SEE PAST YOUR DISIBLITY NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU HAVE BEEN ABLE TO OVER COME THAT THERE PROUBLEM
I BEEN IN SPED ED AND GETING OUT SIDE HELP MY WHLOE LIFE SO I DONT REALLY NO ANYTHING ELSE .BUT I AM MORE AWER NOW IF I THINK SOMEONRE IS TALKING TO ME LIKE IM 4 YEARS OLD I HATE THAT
You may be not a moron. They may be not morons, either. Just different species. You have the advantage of knowing about this, but the disadvantage of being flinged at. If possible, find yourself one trustworthy friend. That should be enough. Do your thing then.
I do have friends but I want people to treat me like a human, not some expirement. I have feelings too just like them.
Prufrock, I have a son with mild autism in high school. High school is hard. (It was for me, too, way back in the day, so nothing much has changed.) My son came to me with pretty much the same frustrations about high school as you. He is now in tenth grade and likes and respects his teachers, also.
If you can, try your very best not to let the other kids know that it bothers you so much. Laugh at yourself right along with them. Disarm them by agreeing with them, even (not sarcastically), but by simply agreeing, and then suddenly change the subject on them to something totally unrelated like "Hey, did you see that movie that is out now?" or something like that. Pretend (or mimic) that you don't even notice what they are saying or have said about you. (You'd be surprised how that works. Although he didn't like it, my son tried it, and was shocked that it worked and the kids stopped the bad treatment.) If they can't get you "upset", then it's "no fun" for them anymore to continue doing it to you.
Young adults can be very mean to each other, whether you are autistic or not. Any type of "difference" can be and does often get "targeted". Those are the people you need to learn to ignore - shut those few out from your sensory circuits (for lack of a better term) by any internal mechanism you can employ (we DO have some major advantages over NTs.) Concentrate on the good and/or understanding friends you do have and on your particular interests.
High school can be fun.........oftentimes exasperating, too, but still fun.
Now, IF the "taunts" turn to outright bullying, do NOT allow that to continue. Remember "zero tolerance". Don't get violent in any manner yourself, of course. Report it to your parents and the school immediately. (I'm sure you know this.)
I hope this helps?
Depends..........is he talking to somebody who isn't there?
In any event, who knows? I'd say to just ask him. As my own kids would say, "Hey, Dude. Who you talking to? What's up?"
eyes of the most, AS is something strange, the aspergians are strange
i never met aspergians , i think everyone is strange.
eyes of the most aspergians is a disability like down syndrome.
i like strange people.
You're around the -masses- in high school. I partly think that high school is about showing you what the world beyond your family is like, as a cross-section of every kind of person you can imagine.
And for someone who is very, very different, it -can- be hell. If I didn't go to a mostly-geek high school myself, I might have wanted to tear my eyes out in school. Hell, I hated middle school for that reason. I was picked on so bad, I cried often.
Hold out till colllege. Just keep saying, "Work hard, get into good university, take the classes that YOU like, and do well in them." It will be better in college, where you aren't in the social incubator/sweat box that high school is.
I always imagined my skin being like the teflon in a frying pan. I imagine the way stuff slides off of it, and I imagine the weird comments from others as sliding off me the same way. Til then, try to get involved in the things you like, and focus on excelling in those.
I do feel for you, though. I wish you the best.
Still, it really hurts sometimes because some people seem to enjoy it.
This one guy named Alex Fonate liked to move my desk alot. I didn't feel good one day and I wanted him to leave me alone. Since I was tired, I laid down my head and tried ot sleep. However, he kept one moving my desk, making it vibrate and all sorts of stuff. Then, I turned around and flicked him off (I know, that's not nice but I was in a bad mood) and he still didn't seem to get it! Then, I got fed up so I took my stuff to the bathroom and locked myself in a stall. Then, I started to cry. A girl from the class to came ask what was wrong and I talked to her a bit until one of the principals came and talked to me.