Were you Popular at School?.........why?

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One of my special interests is unusual expressions of autism.

In keeping with this, I am very interested to hear of people in the spectrum who were popular at school.

I was well liked myself, but the deeper reality was I was liked for being a clown or chronic people pleaser and not for being myself.

Many people knew me in school because i was in a veriety of different classes. For instance i was in top set for maths, but in middle set for things like english and languages. So a lot of people knew me a bit from class etc

I didn't have many friends, maybe about 3 or 4 max, but i wasn't really bullied etc either or had any enemies.

Also, I was always the one that brought the football to play with at lunch at school, which probably helped. So a lot of (mainly guys) people knew me but at least didn't show they had an opinion of me in a positive or negative way.

It probably was also influenced by having an ambulance come onto the school playing field at lunchtime (and of course the whole school crowded around to see what was going on etc), because i dislocated my knee cap playing football. However, that was only in my final year so it may not have had a massive impact.

I was known to be very sarcastic/jerk to most people. However, people also knew me for my math/analytical skills. Also I was gifted at art, but I hated the teacher at my high school so most of the time I refused to do "good".
I hung out with the goths/computer nerds/weird people because they were the only group that I fit in with.

You basically just described my bf. He used to purposely wear a pocket protector and floor it in front of groups of people. He was popular because he over exaggerated his clumsy and goofy nature. I was technically popular because all my cousins were seniors and juniors when I was a freshmen so I got to hang out in the senior area. This resulted in me being targeted by this very mean girl who ended up playing a number of pranks on me because she knew I could be picked on and not even realize it. The last straw was her stealing my chips while I was napping (no one, I mean no one including my own mother touches my food and gets away with it). I ended up going into a rage and nearly attacking one of my friends after this same girl pointed to her as the culprit. I managed to stop myself and realized that I don't need these people and out the door I went. I then stopped talking for a year with a few exceptions. Even then I still managed to get voted as president of our asian club which I ended up dropping out of. Then by the end of my senior year I ended up dating a popular jock (horrible case of "why not?") who had just broken up with his cheerleader girlfriend.

I was well known...but not well liked. My nickname became "the chic from mars" and most of the kids thought I was on drugs...I told them, "no, I come by this naturally"

Yeah, I was popular.....I was the most popular target in the entire school.

I was voted the most popular punching bag, BB gun target, stoning victim, spittoon, etc....ad infinitum year after year. Try learning anything when your "educational environment" was little more than a concentration camp and your fellow students little more than the sadistic SS guards at said camp. Thanks IN PART to my peers in K-12, i'll have to take remedial math classes when I return to college at the ripe old age of 41.

That's not to say I don't have a bonafide learning disability in math. Nor is it to say that I always tried my hardest to improve my math skills. Nonetheless... my fellow students in K-12 didn't exactly make the learning environment anymore commodious.


As horrible as this sounds, I would probably laugh if I heard that one of my bullies was dying of AIDS.


Those pigs are lucky I didn't pull a Columbine on their a**es. I came darn close to doing so and I had the means (dad had plenty of semi-automatic firearms), the motive and the opportunity.

I would've been the Cho Seung Hui of the late 1980's and in retrospect, perhaps I should've been.

Maybe I would've rid the world of 30 or so sadistic pests who have likely gone on to be bullies, wife-beaters, child abusers, rapists and republicans, ( ) in adulthood.

I was "popular". I was the tallest, weird, unsociable and nerdy kid who used to win all the competitions and to get only A notes. Everybody knew, nobody wanted to play with me. Today I'm older, but it's still the same.

Junior high was a nightmare.
Freshman year, I was treated more like a little kid. Sophomore year, my musical talents became known. I was "the bass player". Junior year, I found my group of friends and kept to them. There was one girl who tried to mess with me, but one day, she tried to take over the stereo in the classroom we were eating lunch in. The six of us formed a semi-circle around her and wore the meanest looks on our faces. She giggled nervously and then left. No more problems from her, or really anyone else.
I left being fairly well-known among the musicians as the multi-instrumentalist who could pick up basslines almost instantly.
Thank goodness for special talents!

I wasn't that popular in school. I was one of the less popular ones, because I was very mature for my age.

I was the same with one exeption(besides the nickname, I had many) I had a science teacher that I suspect now my have been an aspie too.. Our classrooms had 1 door on each hall, my science classroom was situated almost halfway down the halls. 1st day of school, and my 1st class was science class, so I played a little prank and put a "PLEASE USE OTHER DOOR" sign on both doors.. and watched as the other students went the long walk back and forth, back and forth.. 3/4 of the class ended up tardy.. Rather than being angry, my teacher thought it was a marvelous experiment in human nature and we got along great the whole year. (it became a tradition in his classes and he posted the signs every year on the 1st day of school!)

class clown...

but I had a few real friends from sports I did

In preschool I was basicaly in my own world so I don't know weither or not I was popular but I knew this little girl who loved to pick on me such as making the water hot when I was washing my hands or hogging all the play dough. I was pretty much in my own world during my first attempt at kindergarden and that's why I was only there for less than a week. I don't know if I was popular my next attempt at kindergarden but I did have a best friend I did things with such as play with at recess and go to the pool with. In first grade I was in a clique. By late secound grade it was becoming obvious I was diffrent and weird and by third grade I had no friends at all partly because of my weirdness and partly because my bully teacher reinenforced how weird I was. I had a best friend in forth grade that the teachers fullicatated (my home room fourth grade teacher was a cranky old bat but not really a bully) but I don't know how I was veiwed by other kids. By fith grade I was being homeschooled and my mom never got me involved with other homeschoolers becuase every time she tried the other kids either bullied or ignored me or I ignored them. I think the only time I was popular was first grade but I'm not sure.

Everyone seemed to knew me, even kids in middle school and elementary school and I didn't even know who they were. I must have been that famous and interesting because obviously I was being talked about or how else would little kids know who I am and other kids in my school and I didn't even know them or who they were? This is high school I am talking about.

I was fairly popular, but I'm not sure why.

I think I was good company with a strong aries candor and winning smile as my main attributes

Kids who I had never seen before would come up to me and tell me how weird or bad I was Somehow kids learned how much I loved animals and would tell me they or someone else had done things such as setting kittens on fire just to upset me. Little kids are so innocent and precious aren't they?

Is that a rhetorical question?