Which school years were you most isolated from your peers??

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No diagnosis available and the school administration didn't want to deal with me. So in the cubicle I went!

That must've sucked. Ah well, at least understanding of autism is better now than it was 18 years ago. Hopefully the understanding will be even better 18 years later.

Last 2 years were my most isolated. I wish I would have known or accepted that I had ASD rather than brushing off suspicions of it. I think accepting the limitations might be beneficial? I don't know.

I personally don't see anything wrong with accepting your condition, although yeah the more we think about how different we are the more hard it is to accept it.

I felt more and more isolated until I finally dropped out from it, but an outside observer would probably say I was getting more and more social.

Aww, so why exactly did you drop out of school?

6th grade and up. 6th grade the most I would say because when I was 13 and 14 I was friends with this one girl who was a year and a half younger than me and we had things in common. The rest were more acquaintances but I wouldn't say I was isolated from my peers. In 6th grade I had no friends of my own age. I got isolated from my friends finally because it was like they grew up and I got let behind in development so I was like a little kid to them. In my senior year my acquaintances were a bunch of 14 year olds and they were friends with my brother. So I was isolated from my peers off and on an that be when I wouldn't even be talking to them and I was just alone playing my game in my locker or whatever. Now I am very isolated.

Age 10-13, children are very superficial and try (often in vain) to conform. I found that my inability to conform caused isolation and reclusive behaviour.

6th - 8th grade.

I'm not fully surprised, lol.

It's the middle school years where fitting in is a top priority for the vast majority (if not all) of the student body. I did manage to make friends during the last two months 8th grade, but still, I was relatively isolated for nearly three-quarters of that year.

There is not a specific time that i was feeling more or less isolated . I never had friends and i still don't have . But the most terrible and scary years of my life were when i was 9 untill my 15 , it was hell . I was always wondering << O.k you dont like me , but why can't you just leave me alone ?? >>

School... argh....

Basically I had tantrums/meltdowns almost everyday until I was about 16, almost anything would upset me. Didn't know social skills either, the school did interventions though. Something like that is very isolating, but I didn't care much as a kid. When I was in 6th grade, the special ed. teacher made me have a friend, I did become her friend, but.... she had my cousin's kids then left him never to be seen again

I didn't have friends in elementary school, but a couple in middle and high school at least besides that one "friend" I mentioned above.

i would say high school and college were when i was most affected by the isolation. i got through high school somehow even though i struggled with depression beginning in my junior year in high school. college to me was just high school part 2. it never got any better. i have gotten over or just forgot about the high school hell, but the college hell definitely played a role in my acceptance of my asperger's diagnosis.

3rd to 12th except for 5th.

I thought 7th was all right, but apparently I was kidding myself.

God, my life is depressing.

1st - college.

WIth the exception of a few years in HS where I was part of a small group (Through the intervention of an extrovert, no doing of my own) . In JHS isolation had turned to somewhat extreme persecution, but that faded again by HS due to a move.

In college I met someone from my youth in the library. The 2cd thing (directly after the greeting) that he said to me was, "kids can be cruel". I thought, "man, it was that bad".