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14 May 2010, 3:20 pm

Thinking back, I've been friends with outcasts even though in some cases the outcasts were annoying to me (as they probably were to everyone else). But one thing I noticed about some of the outcasts is that if you aren't mean to them, they are not mean to you. Its just sometimes tragic that people are mean to outcasts. The outcasts get really violent and pick fights with others.



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14 May 2010, 3:33 pm

I've always befriended outcasts, since I was a young child. I did not befriend every outcast I met (there were some I didn't like(, but almost every friend I've had was unconventional in some way.

I think this was one of the things that alerted my psychiatrist to the fact that I might be an aspie when I came to him for an ADHD diagnosis.


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14 May 2010, 3:59 pm

:huh: If it weren't for outcasts and fringe freaks, I'd never have had any friends at all, but that's mostly because I don't find 'normal' people interesting enough to waste my time on. And I have no illusions about the fact that I fit in with the oddball types because I am one of them. The normies don't turn up their noses and sneer at me the way they do some of the more extremely geeky types, but they don't accept me as one of them, either - they just tend to ignore me, unless they need a scapegoat for something. Then I'm convenient bus fodder. So my relationships with NT people is mutually exclusive. We ignore each other, and I'm fine with that.



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14 May 2010, 4:07 pm

I've always been friends with outcasts, and I always will.


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14 May 2010, 5:02 pm

I have always got on well with the people on the outskirts of society. The bottom step of the social ladder, or maybe even separate from it.
I definitely connect with the outcasts, although I do have one friend who isn't. The rest are in some way or another.


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14 May 2010, 5:13 pm

As a kid I wanted friends to hang out with. The outcasts did not push me away, or bully me like most other kids did because they wanted friends too.


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14 May 2010, 5:17 pm

Willard wrote:
:huh: If it weren't for outcasts and fringe freaks, I'd never have had any friends at all,....


If it weren't for the other "freaks" I would have had no friends at all.

It seems they were the only ones who even remotely accepted me.



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14 May 2010, 5:20 pm

All my friends have been outcasts or weird people of some sort. Though I don't think I'd want to be friends with the "popular" people anyway, they're usually much less interesting.



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14 May 2010, 5:39 pm

Um, hello? I am one of the outcasts! :lol: And I love being so because I was the one that got treated like crap by the "popular" ones.


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14 May 2010, 6:05 pm

Being one myself it was only natural that I befriended them. Almost all of my friends are outcasts and rejects and they're the ones I've always found easier to get along with.


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14 May 2010, 6:23 pm

This is somewhat silly, as most people on WP are outcasts, so of course their friends will be such as well.



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14 May 2010, 8:17 pm

Well, all my friends are from out of state ;)

But seriously, yes. All neuro-issues aside, I am not a mainstream person and neither are my friends. I have a vegan mindset in the middle of beef country ;)



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15 May 2010, 6:18 am

I knew three girls at school who were, to some extent, outcasts (they would be made fun of and called "weird" and "freaks" etc. like I was), and they were genuinely nice people who I became quite good friends with. I used to spend my German lessons drawing random pictures with one of them, and I didn't think she was weird, I just thought she was very talented at drawing. :)


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16 May 2010, 2:21 pm

I was kind of an outcast myself, but I didn't pick fights with people and rarely got into trouble unlike some other outcasts.



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16 May 2010, 3:25 pm

I just see it this way everone need's a freind right? I mean the others may have turned their back on these poor people but hey i have no probs befreinding them, most of them have disabilities similar to aspergers or autism so i really feel for these people and can relate to them so why not be freinds with them? Sure some are annoying as hell and i have a freind who talks about the same thing very often and i swear he has autism of some degree but when he brings his interest into the convorsation i tend to try to offer my input as much as possible ( Its easy when his interest is somthing you also find interesting :P ) But hey everyone should have a freind so if your lonely just call ;)

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16 May 2010, 7:25 pm

A couple; yet I was more of an outcast then them apparently.


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