I'll always be a social reject

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I always felt you were one of the "in-crowd" (not that it matters or should matter). I think you tend to see yourself in a light that is different from how many people on here view you. While you may think you were just compensating for a perceived failed "real life" by getting into those high-IQ societies, for instance, I think you're underestimating the fact that some of your mental skills really *are* admirable and that this is a positive thing about you. Most of the normal folks just have the benefit of being mediocre in everything, anyway.

I can accept that some/much of it could be internally generated; a mix of low self esteem and insecurity.

^ Thank you. I do wonder how many here are like me- i.e ASD + schizophrenia.

Judging by the number of replies, and the content of them, very few have ASD+ schizophrenia/schizoaffective.

^^^i have been dx'ed with both strong schizoid traits as a child [obviously not full-blown] as well as AS as an adult.

That's interesting.

On the Continuity between Autistic and Schizoid Personality Disorder Trait Burden: A Prospective Study in Adolescence
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6982569/

^^^thank you Firemonkey, for that informative link. there was another link here on WP a while back, about "schizotypal autism" that seems along similar lines. that resonated with me, as did this link of yours.

I come a little late to this conversation, but I wanted to tell you, firemonkey, that I have always liked you and read your posts with interest (except during those intervals when I wasn't participating here at all). You have always struck me as a kind person who hurts no one, which is far more than some people can say.

I'm autistic... But also asocial.
Yet no schizophrenia, no schizoaffective nor schizoid personality disorder.

Even if I do seem to have strong schizoid traits, professional opinion says no I don't have it.


... Also I didn't go through the same circumstances. Around social rejection I mean.
Also other emotional related stuff on that -- feeling rejected to begin with.


I don't know if it's cultural or luck.
Cultural I meant more social than your average NT culture.

Luck I meant, being internally asocial -- almost never felt loneliness (almost) or being isolated, because there's no real social thirst to quell in the first place.

... Except boredom. It might be only social 'drive' I got. Added that I'm also not a real introvert.



But in all seriousness...
A good amount of people in this forum feels the same.

They all feel they don't fit in a space where they thought they would -- namely an autism forum.
All don't feel like they don't resonate with another because of some perceived cliche. All thought they got this unique set of circumstances that no one understands -- cause it IS true.

Heck, the same can be said with killing threads or derailing topics or feeling irrelevant cause they were not quoted/mentioned/etc. assumed no one reads their posts...

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i could say the very same thing. we belong to a unique club.