Do you feel like the odd one out on Wrong Planet?

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It seems most people on this site are very high functioning and quite a few are employed, have families and are self diagnosed. That just seems somewhat I don't know... alienating to me.

I admit, I am high-functioning, have a job, have a boyfriend, and I'm officially diagnosed with AS and ADHD. But I feel in a minority here when it comes to diagnosis, because it seems so many members here either aren't diagnosed at all, or are self-diagnosed, or got diagnosed later on in life. Because I am high-functioning and lack a lot of Aspie symptoms, plus I'm female, I still am trying to figure out how I didn't slip through the cracks at school like the majority of other Aspies here who are mild and female.

I consider myself pretty high-functioning now. I'm not married or seeing anyone, but I would like for that to happen someday. I worry though, that I may be too old and that I have missed too much life experience.

I'm not self-diagnosed, I was diagnosed medically. I don't have a job or a family of my own. But WP is the one place where I feel I belong. Maybe because I generally don't care if other people have jobs or families.

There are threads where non-verbal or low-verbal people post a lot. You may also want to check ''Not mild by any means'' thread.

I would say this is a site geared towards the formerly ''Asperger's labeled'' population of the spectrum. The owner (Alex Plank) is extremely high functioning man on the spectrum and a business owner so it makes sense the site attracts other like minded people.

Unfortunately, there are quite a few of us who are not so lucky or able to cope well with our Autism.

I do feel the odd one out often. I'm long term unemployed but also I feel other people here are often better at making each other laugh.

Frequently. I don't bother my arse too much. I find this place contains a lot of tedious chatter.

Also even beyond ''sites'' there is a video on Youtube called ''things not to say to an Autistic person'' with all these supposedly Autistic adults. Their behavior in the video went beyond ''passing'' - their social skills were pitch perfect as with their interactions with each other.

I am sorry, but there is no way even the highest functioning ''passing'' Autistic adult can socialize with no degree of difficulty. Even more troubling is a lot of these ''Asperger's advocates'' report no other symptoms other than being ''awkward'' which they clearly are not even that.

Something is clearly wrong with this picture.

I feel like the black sheep everywhere I go. This place is no different. In a way it doesn't bother me because I'm very much a loner but it's also frustrating when you are lost and need real guidance
This is for a different reason than you stated...just have qualities/beliefs or whatever that doesn't seem to mesh with either groups. I can connect with lots of people online but mostly on the surface.


It did take me a long time to get a job and it's still not the one I want or feel comfortable in. I have my mom but that's about all. We see my aunt once in a while but I'm not at all close with her.
I have been told what I already knew: that I'm hard to understand. I've been hurt a lot mostly because of my ineptness so I would say the things that I have gone through are definitely not normal at least when you consider the amount of it.

if one didn't know me from adam, I "present well" for the first few seconds, then all the weird comes pouring out. I am in an uncomfortable in-between place, not just the "uncanny valley" - not being on public benefits, not on Pmeds but also not employable or dateable.

I was diagnosed in childhood so I can never relate to what other adult aspies go through when discovering AS and reading about it. I keep reading about burnouts and I haven't experienced it yet. I don't get exhausted using skills like most of them claim. I never went to college and I wouldn't have made it through school without any help. I don't have troubles with cleaning either. While it seems like other aspies have no issues finding work, I have issues finding work but I have no problems keeping a job while they would have problems keeping one. Maybe because I am very mild so everyone with it is going to have it worse than me. But they have their own issues while I have my own.

Yes AND No. Because Autism is heterogeneous. So is humanity.


Yes: For various reasons beyond just being raised in a different culture, being less of a 'sufferer', and being too 'neutral'.

No: Because so are most members do feel the same way, just for different reasons from why I also feel that way.

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