are you comfortable with your own people?

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i'm not comfortable around other israelies. they're loud and bossy and often rude and intolerant of aspie traits. not that i'm comfortable around anyone from any culture, ever.

i dont think someone has something in common with another person just because they happen to be born in the same country. i see strangers talking to each other on the bus and shaking hands just because they're both from the same origin. i dont understand what they have to talk about, if they're strangers. never understood it.

my world is so much different than other nts. i feel connection to other aspies and people with autism, even halfway across the globe.

where are you from, and how do you feel about your own people? do you feel you have something in common with them, some kind of connection? and why?

I am generally comfortable with the aspies in my local meetup group, but I am not especially comfortable with other people in general, especially americans- when I was a visitor in Canada, I felt much more at home.

I am an immigrant living in Australia (I will not publicly mention where I'm originally from because that would be one big clue to who I am for those around me IRL if they ever read my posts on WP).

I actually do try to avoid getting to know people from my country (although I avoid pretty much anyone of any nationality as I'm just too awkward). As the OP said, some people seem to think being from the same country is a good reason to actively speak to and to make friends with someone. What I really don't like about interacting with people from my country here is that they expect me to be in a certain way because I'm from the same country and they judge me based on that, while they are very accepting of weird foreigners. I particularly avoid women from my country.

Although I find WP quite comfortable in that many people here share similar life experiences and I can be honest about myself, I've recently been thinking that most autistic people are after all pretty similar to non-autistic people in some ways, which is kind of disappointing. But yes, I'm still more comfortable with autistic people than with people from my country.

I'm middle eastern too
I actually do feel comfortable and warm between my own people most of the time, I love their loud personalities its actually funny and seems warm and comforting, I don't enjoy talking to them very much because they're different somehow, they're nice to me most of the time. Althought most of my friends I talk to mostly are from different ethnicities than mine because we have the same intrests, but I still have friends of my same ethnicity even thought we only have similar backgrounds I still feel more warm and deep when I'm with them rather than my other friends, I guess they give me similar feelings I had when I was a kid, they feel a little like my sibilings or relatives, because of their similarities to my fellow brethren back then
But people who would understand me more are autistics or friends who have similar intrests to me

Sometimes I feel uncomfortable with other Americans. Especially when I see them being really loud/rude/racist in public and I'm just like "This is why other countries stereotype us." I know not everyone's like that, though, and I'm always happy and comfortable with people who are in general pleasant people and not the stereotypical American.

I'm comfortable with some other teenagers, but not all; they tend to be the ones who have the same/similar interests to me. The sporty, jocky types are still nice to me so I guess I'm okay with them, but not necessarily "comfortable".

I have a hard time connecting & feeling comfortable with people in general regardless if we live in the same area or not.

I have no people of my own, unless you count family; but most of them don't accept me either.