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my name is A1phabeta, and I've actually been a member for a little while, it's just that i kinda forgot about this forum for a while. Anyway, I digress.
I am a 6th grader who is at the end of the school year. I am in the Honors (gifted) program at James Madison Middle School in a small city in the mountains of Virginia. I'm currently in one high school credit class (Spanish I), and next year, I'm gonna do Algebra I, which is another high school credit class. I'm also gonna be in a gifted program for gifted arts, because I showed impressive abilities in Chorus this school year.
I have Asperger's syndrome, which earns the admiration of my elders, but also the contempt and envy of my peers, because of my excellent intellectual abilities.

P.S. Hopefully this wasn't too long of an introduction

Congratulations on your academic successes!

It isn't really correct that the adults around you attribute your prowess to the disorder--Aspergers seems to go with a broad range of IQ and ability to achieve academically. You should take that credit for yourself, not Aspergers. Though your particular expression of the neurological pattern may help, it mostly you, doing what you do. So: Go you!

As for the contempt and envy of your peers, they have plenty of that for people who don't shine academically. Being nasty is just a common strategy used by people to make themselves feel better or reposition themselves in the social hierarchy. The whole thing seems pointless to me and probably you too, but it's very important to them so they will go on being that way. Don't let it get to you--you have an awesome future if you stick to what you do best.

I know an undiagnosed academic, clearly autistic and from a family with many members who are either autistic or in the broader phenotype, who has a great life with jobs and friends, because he had the fortunate circumstance of high academic achievement and mathematical ability translating into a stellar university career. He gets paid to pursue his special interests and his friends and colleagues like what he has to say and they way he thinks.

My son is also a 6th grader and finds it hard to be in school, so his results are all over the place: great on tests, lousy on in-class work and activities except in Science and Math... It's probably a fairly irrational reaction, but it's good to hear of another kid his age for whom things are going better.

Thanks for sharing your successes with us.

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