Does everyone else seem 'weird' to you?

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I was curious how common this sentiment might've been. Growing up, and especially in highschool, other people always seemed to be "really weird" to me and I didn't understand them -- they'd say the weirdest, most illogical things that apparently other people got excited by and people seemed to have relationship issues or 'relationship dynamics'(like friendships and the such) over the silliest, pettiest things and I was thinking "WTF is with everyone"? But, surprise, they all thought that I was the "really weird" one but my IQ seems to suggest I *should* be pretty rational, and my past analyses and predictions having been really accurate, so that suggests I'm pretty rational (Not really "people rational", but "logical rational"). So, I'm just curious if this is a common feeling in the autistic community. Or is this feeling common among "weird high IQ NTs" as well?

People seem so weird to me that I seem to have trouble distinguishing between people who are a little odd and people who are manipulative and dangerous. As annoying as NTs can be, they are helpful to sort out eccentric from trouble.

"some" NT's seem stupid and weird. Focusing on "socializing" when you went to college to become X career!! All these stupid College clubs! WTH!! ! You ARE THERE TO GET A DAMN CAREER! IMO all this "socializing" class complaining you must not want to become a lawyer *insert field* here much!! !! ! Also I'm the weird one or "wrong one" for not being able to drive or have interest in getting an apartment etc. It seems others on the spectrum have these concerns as well so I'm glad I'm not alone. NT's do seem stupid at times though. Sadly it'll be the C/D passing Social NT's that get the job over an Aspie with A's/B's who loves the field to death.

Absolutely! Most normal people still seem weird to me, but it’s been getting better. In middle school I thought the other kids were border-line crazy, but now it’s only every now and then that someone will do something I don’t understand.

Sometimes the reverse will happen and I’ll be talking to someone I think is perfectly normal and then later someone else will refer to them as weird.

Before I knew that I had autism, I thought that everyone else was weird. I used to be AMAZED at my classmates neurotypical abilities. There were no other "special needs" kids in my school until I was in Grade 3 and I never got to know him very well at all because he was a Kindergartener. I did see him on the playground sometimes. He once told to get out of the "no girl zone". I don't think the principal of my elementary school was very good at dealing with autistic kids.

Thanks for describing my life for me.

I did think that. I still do to some extent, but I think they're more "different" than "weird", just like we are to them.

I think that a lot of people are weird. They just stand there and gossip and they do small talk and gossip all day. The human race is a very strange race.

In third grade when I went to day camp, everyone seemed strange, but then my mom said "No, you're weird!"

Most people tell me I'm weird at some point. Or quiet.

I think they've got it backwards (except for the quiet thing). I once went to a club. Big mistake. Everybody was dancing in exactly the same way, with a bottle of beer in their hand, listening to extremely loud music I ran out and had a panic attack in the street

Sometimes I feel like I've discovered a strange new tribe

OP describes my life after 6th grade. I used to feel like I was similar to the other kids, but as we got older, we diverged and I ended up...as I am now, and they all look really strange to me. Actually, everyone does, a little bit.

I know now that I'm the weird one, but I still can't shake the questions in my head about why people are doing these ridiculous things.

Not so much weird as they are idiotic.

The human race is a mostly useless species. I find it so ridiculous when NTs scoff at things like UFOlogy, with arguments like "If there are actually aliens visiting our planet, why wouldn't they just land and say Hello?"

And I think: "Why WOULD they? If you had the intelligence and sophistication to create interstellar (or intradimensional) travel, on what level would you be interested in getting to know a species that uses what primitive technology they have to kill each other and wantonly pollute their environment, who value materialism over the lives of their fellow beings, and who classify watching their fellow beings fight, argue, scheme, cheat, ridicule and insult each other as 'entertainment'? Personally, I'd stay as far away from cretins like that as possible. At best, I might implement a 'catch-tag-and-release' program, to put tracking implants in them and study their behavior with an eye toward keeping them under control, lest they someday get off their home planet and become a threat to OTHER species.

Of course, that could just be wishful thinking, hoping there ARE aliens and maybe they'll take me with them.

I thought other kids were weird for stuff they didn't like and I still think people are weird because of how they think or act. Even my own husband is weird.

other people are very strange. i can never relate to them. they have these odd social rituals that i just don't get. i sometimes watch them and the way they interact and the things they say/ talk about and i just get the sense that im outside of the world- like i come from another planet or exist in an alternate reality that runs parallel to- and so never touches- their world. i think they are weird and i think im weird too. how strange someone is is a subjective thing. no one can define normal beause that too is subjective.

No. Most people seem very mainstreamy 'normal' to me.

I know some really truly weird people though.

I'm usually the weird one here, and with friends and family