forum If anyone is in school.

Started January 30, 2019 by @Cough_Syurp

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In&out is a fast food place that has burgers and stuff. I don't think every state has them because I've never seen one but I hear they are the pinnacle of greasy burgers

Sounds great and solidifies my opinion that the northeast has nothing great. Honestly lots of fast food chains are everywhere but northeast. I've seen a map a restaurant was in every state accept any state in the northeastern corner of the US

So basically, I told a friend of mine that I was autistic. Seemed simple enough, they just nodded for a bit, but didn't seem shocked or anything. Then they said:

"You don't look autistic. So what's your special skill?"

I'll take two really stupid things to say to an autistic individual for 400.

"Uh… what?" I replied, no idea what in the fuck they just said.

"Special skill? I've heard that autistic people have those."

"Er…. I have opposable thumbs? I can get distracted by literally anything?" I say.

And they just stared blankly like they didn't know what I was talking about. It's funny now but was kind of awkward to explain how goddamn rare savants are and that they were mistaking an autistic savant for, like, just a normal autistic individual.

Another thing, I'm kinda the type of person you can't tell is autistic until I either tell you or something happens that is like, kinda just makes it obvious e.g. a sensory overload or maybe when I'm stimming.

And today, that happened. I ended up running out screaming and then crying in the bathroom for two hours. The school counselor, a very lovely woman we'll call Mrs. D, gave me a pack of tissues and let me go home early after I called down, and I'm glad that at least she gets me and left me alone until I chilled out. But then parents go all like, "you're faking it and you just want attention" and I go, what the heck. Seriously, if shit like that happens, I'm not faking.

Sorry for the rant, I just needed to get stuff off my chest. I hope you don't mind!

My god your friend is a horrible person. "What's your special skill" you aren't a freaking superhero. Like actually what the hell. Good for you keeping your anger in check. I know the feeling. I told a "friend" I failed the French final and she asked me why I didn't study enough. I told I was prioritizing math and science and she called me a liar and asked where I was the afternoon before since I should have been studying. I was in the counselor's office having an anxiety attack and I didn't want to tell her so she said I was lazy and still a liar. Damn, people need to be educated.

this right here is why i don't tell anybody about my autism unless they're an online friend or i know for sure they'd be ok with it or they're autistic themselves

I don't mind, I get stuff like that a lot. I have friends who actually do get it even if they sometimes need me to clarify a few things, and they're supportive enough. So I don't need to care much, but I'll still be open about my brain stuff because of people won't accept me the way I am I'll just find new people. Also, at my old school it was way worse because at the time I didn't even know I was autistic or understand it much, so even I was ignorant when people called stuff "retarded" and "autistic". Idk.

Well pretty much everyone here has some problem so it's not like we're going to judge.

Yeah… I actually like that best about this site, people don't judge people because of small stuff, it's how people act that matters.

My counselor knows that writing calms me down and I told her about this website saying that I love it because these are my people and a lot of people on here have one problem or another. She said it actually makes sense because writers tend to think differently and it goes hand and hand with people who think differently tend to become writers.

Wow. Decent counselors. I thought they were a myth.

Yeah, I wrote because it makes sense. Worlds I can craft where characters can understand me and I can understand them, what's not to love?

Well I go to a fancy private school so lucky us we get actual train psychologists as counselors and a real nurse. Yay. But it's also infinity harder and more stressful. 85s are considered fails to most kids.

Only two days in to summer school PE and my whole body aches. I can barely stand tbh.

Hi, Everyone!!!

Anyone free to talk?

kinda free

Update on Eggward: He's dead

Hey

Hi

So how's life?

Pretty Ok, what about you?

Same.

Thats good

yeah.

Hey, so you wanna play would you rather, or 20 (or more) questions?