Lunch-Time sucks...

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There are nice people now who let me sit at their table, so I do. But back in sixth grade I used to not know where I should sit at all. I remember at the beginning of the year, I sat in the wrong place. The kids there kicked me off and I ran, in tears, out of the lunchroom.

I am OBSESSED with Anime and Manga!

I can cope with Lunchtime okay.
I hate being squished at a table with lots and lots and lots and lots of people though. When that happens, I just move out and sit on the floor. My friends still think this is weird - they don't know I have AS - , but they accept it now and even join me sometimes.

Lunch is loud, it smells, the people there are rude, and it is hard to find a table. Now, I eat in the science classroom, because they don't allow eating in the library, but when I'm finished eating, I go to the library and read until lunch is finished.

For lunch, I usually just buy the school lunches, which can be very gross. I have the last lunch of the day, so all of the food has been sitting out for a few hours. The lunch that I have also happens to have the most people and it takes about 1/3 of the lunch our (depending on the day) in order to get lunch. Nowadays I usually have lunch in the band room, where some band nerds come in and out and we have some good times and talk and whatnot. I don't have a regular group; I just like the quiet of the band room and the people in band are usually pretty cool. I wish I had my old lunch back, so that at least I had a friend to talk to; I don't have any friends that I could open up to throughout the school day besides at track in the late afternoon, and I'm not even sure if she likes me as much as I like her. I mean, it seems as if she likes me, but I don't know if I bother her (because of my Asperger's of course, or at least the part where I can't feel what others feel sometimes). Anyways, I don't like lunch, but I don't hate lunch either; it's just another one of those things.

In middle school in eighth grade, a bunch of friends and acquaintances and I got out of lunch by getting involved in this art project, which we spent the whole period doing.

In my freshman year, I sat alone for the longest time. One day, someone from my class invited me to sit with him and a group of people, but after a few months I decided that I was tired of their crude, often cruel sense of humor, and started sitting alone again, although I'd occasionally let other people sit at my table. One day, some people who came to my table had cigarettes, so I got up and left. When a health teacher saw me standing alone, she decided to invite me to spend my lunches in the study hall backstage, where I happened to meet a nice person who I talked to regularly.

This year, I was excited because I a friend from middle school was in most of my classes, as well as the same lunch period with some other acquaintances. However, these other acquaintances are a bit too much like the people I sat with last year, so I'm going around during lunches now to scope out a good table.

Sounds like my ninth and tenth grade lunch experience, down to the fact that you were introduced to the group through a middle school acquaintance. About 33 per-cent of the time in 9th and 10th grade I ate alone and the other 67% of the time I was part of group of kids who were obsessed with stinkbombs, projectiles, and over-masculinity. As with you, not my choice, but my social theory postulated that I had to accept what I had.

I considered many times going back alone and even threatened once in ninth grade... god, remembering this stuff, it actually sounds as if those were good times, though they weren't exactly...

Currently I'm in a group of either four or twenty - depending on what you constitute as a group: the people with whom you associate specifically or everyone surrounding you - formed out of some good social game playing back in the first semester (link). It sometimes gets a bit scary, though, as I'm for all practical purposes the only guy in the group. It allows for some great analysis of behavior, though.

No I disagree I love lunch! It is so fun especially, when it i with my friends (except for the drama that ooccurs sometimes) and it is like taking a break from school! Which I love about that..

I just sit with a couple of my friends, 2 have dyspraxia and one has AS

I had a couple groups I sat with. there was one table where we played Yu-Gi-Oh!(Hate the show, but the game was really fun.), then when my two other friends there got switched out of that lunch because of their schedule, me and my other friend quit sitting there because this one kid had a horrible mouth.(Lots of swearing) so I sat with my friend at a separate table. Another was with my little "group" from art class, which where also Anime/manga fans(Subbies, thank god!) and other was with my metalhead friends.

Before I made those friends, tho, I usually went up to the Library and worked on the computers(Maintenance,and fixed the odd computer here and there.) until they switched to XP systems. Sometimes the computer lab because they needed help too.(again, til they upgraded...)

because of either going to the library/computer lab/playing, I usually didn't eat lunch. :S sometimes I'd take a granola bar with me to school for lunch.

yea i bearly have lunch either i alwase forget to make it .... then in the mornings im allwase late between them i just dont get lunch


im on speaking terms with basicaly every group in my year (there are like 5) but i usualy hang out with my intellectual friends

Ocasionally. Most of the time I only had a best friend... and would be uncomfortable if she wasn't there.. I would sit with other people but they wern't or wern't really my friends.

In Primary school I would walk around by myself kicking rocks, stomping on leaves and talking to myself in my head (Playing games) when my best friend wasn't there.

I used to always dread it.

lunch for me depends on week.

each week the schedule changes.

if my third period class is on the first or third floor then i have first lunch.

second lunch is if the class is gym or on the second floor.

sooo, this means that each week the people who are sitting with me changes. i have two lunches with my friend. the other lunches are torture...i truly don't like to talk to people now that they've shortened the lunch to thirty five minutes. i normally have homework that i need to do. when i don't...i just sit there drinking my water or doodling. before i could go to the nice, quiet library and relax but now i don't have enough time.

I escape to the tutorial room, which is a small, spare classroom. Its heaven entering when you're exhausted and need a break.
I often invite my good friend in to have lunch with me whenever i'm in the mood for company.
I have a whole set of lockers to myself, which I hide the keys hidden a cupboard. Obviously I let my friend have a secret locker too.
I also have access to the tutorial room key when it's locked on Monday mornings, which is another good advantage for when I get locked in by one of the teachers in charge of locking the doors after lunch.

Last edited by MichaelaB on 25 Feb 2012, 1:24 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I usually have people to sit with. The times when I didn't know anyone in my lunch period, I would either sit alone or with the special ed table. The past year, though, my sensory issues have gotten worse, so the cafeteria is way too loud for me to eat without getting a lot anxiety and having to stim. I've managed this by wearing earplugs during lunch and going to the library during lunch as often as possible.