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Do you ever feel like you want nothing more to do with the human race?

I think I am becoming a misanthrope.

I just do not understand how they can be so cruel sometimes, especially for a race that claims to have so much empathy.

I've never wanted anything to do with them. That being said, they're not all going to miraculously disappear overnight though, so I have to tolerate them for now. Only in small doses though, since I rarely leave the house.
Edit: I should also add they're the reason I don't leave the house.

Contact with other people often turns out bad, and painful.

The problem is that I feel something is missing - I need some kind of human contact that I am not able to find. When I was studying, there were good times during coffee breaks when other people would engage in conversations that I found very satisfying. I miss that level of contact with other people.

I already have very little to do with the rest of humanity, but I am a non social, not anti social. Like another poster, I rarely go out, partly because of my Aspie social issues, but also because of other health issues.

Hm. For me, it fluctuates. Some days, I'll think back to my childhood, watch the news and see the most idiotic Facebook posts imaginable and denounce people as rambling idiots without morals or purpose and then...I'll watch a movie like Wall-E (ha, maturity win!), see friends getting married/starting families, look at photos of my high school classmates going out and having fun and wish I was a part of that. I think, as children, we all had dreams about what our lives might look like as adults and I'm not ready to give up on the whole married, three children, trips to Disneyland in the summer and putting up Christmas decorations together just yet.

Limit the scope of your interactions with people and they aren't necessarily bad.

I generally get along okay with most people but if I had the opportunity to move to another planet with a decent standard of living I would be the first in line. I can always dream!

This is why I get so mad when people still believe that Autistics lack empathy and NTs don't. Unless they just mean NTs have the type of empathy meaning they are able to read other people's body language and everything, not the type of empathy that means ''oh I know exactly how they feel, so I'm going to be good and kind to them''. Because it's obvious that a lot of NTs really don't understand how some of us feel, even those not on the spectrum. I've seen a lot of NTs think that just because they like something they think other people like it too, and they say this to eachother, not just to Aspies. I've seen NTs criticising other NTs all the time, as though they're struggling to understand other people's mindsets and are just seeing everything through their own perspectives without respecting or listening to opinions of others.

But anyway, back on topic - I don't like to seperate myself from other people. I'm a human just like them, and it's not like I live isolated in a desert or in a big dark lonely forest, so I haven't got much choice other than mix with other people, and sometimes it can be fun depending on who they are and the environment. Also I have to work, and I want to work, so I can't really spend the rest of my life running away from human contact. Heck, I'm lucky to have SOME social skills in my brain, so I might aswell use it.

I often think this (particularly at the moment having recently been backstabbed by a "friend" of 12 years) but I know (or at least I keep telling myself) that those people who make me want nothing more to do with humanity do not comprise the entire human race. There *are* nice people out there even if the majority are callous, selfish scumbags. The alternative is suicide and I enjoy the nice parts (even if there are more not-nice parts than nice) of life too much to seriously consider that.

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I used to love people, all kinds, but have been so badly treated all my life that a few years ago I had enough.

I know there must be kind people out there, but I haven't had the pleasure of meeting them. (If someone rejects me like I'm scum and lies to me that they're not rejecting me, when I've done nothing unkind to them, then I don't consider them kind but cruel, hence why I say I haven't met anyone kind).

I used to be really trusting and affectionate with people, but that pretty much changed when I became a teenager and was hurt once too many times. Now my trust and affection is pretty much solely reserved for my dad, my aunt, and my plushies and die cast Cars. As things currently stand, I'm perfectly content to just stay in my room and only come out to go to class, go to the bathroom or get food. Anyone who tries to interfere with that is going to be very sorry.

I like helping people, because while some people are capable of great evil, some are also capable of great kindness.

Bumble- I feel that often. In fact I think I was about twelve when I decided that humans in general were a pox growing on the skin of this planet. But for all the misanthropy I often feel, I realize that other people are also a necessary evil otherwise we may have a Twilight Zone scenario where the last man on Earth realizes just what kind of screwed up situation he's wished for. So what I've come down to is to accept that some people are cruel and evil. Karma eventually catches up with them in some shape. Some people are morons or simply ignorant. We have the Darwin Awards for them. What remains are the generic masses and the people whose company is tolerable. That leaves fewer people to stress over, in my book.

Yes. I suffer from major depression, and people tell me,

"The worst thing you can do when you're depressed is to be alone. You need to be around people.
People will keep you from being depressed!"

That's idiotic. People are WHY I'm depressed.

I am a misanthropist myself. I hate the human race cant relate to them.

I remember we once had a training session with a psychologist who gave some incerpts from Daniel Goldmen's book
about how human's evolved from the Ape race and its only 20,000 years ago that we started reading, writing, talking etc
We were primarily animals and our main task like other animals were to hunt and kill and eat.

Somewhere during that evolution process i feel that some DNA have mutated and these mutated DNA'a are the Aspie's who are far
more evolved then this moronic animal race of NT's we though naive, kind and understanding are not animalish

We are like the Navi's from Avatar movie we connect with the universe, love animals, protect nature, speak the truth and can see goo d in every creation unlike the humans who are out to destroy for own selfish need