Classmates with Asperger Syndrome

[johmarie7]

I agree I cant controll what I say (not always) and it´s pretty painfull to stop laughing too. its really painfull to force myselfe stop laughing (got kickt out of class for laughing a lot in 10th grade.) I cant laught about thinks normal people find funny. But sometimes I think sth is funny but to them it´s not. I can concentrate on a thing I love for hours (but does sb disturb me I´s plain pain). I think cloth hurt my skin a lot. I wish fleece or at most cotton was the material for cloths.

[468chuckles]

interesting...

[PuppetXeno]

I'm diagnosed undisclosed non-neurotypical - on the spectrum. First and foremost, it's not a disability, just recognize and embrace the advantages of a (by comparison) extremely strong focus, very useful for learning, doing and creating complex things NT people simply can't fathom. I don't mind being an alien, it fits my musician's profile. Just choose to not be a background character in your own life.

[xXSgtWolfXx]

0:35. "Kids at school treat me like a background character" Exactly how I felt when I was in school. I dunno if I have aspergers, I've never been diagnosed. But I think i might.

[kiryuandgodzillagirl]

welcome to the party guys, i feel like an alien or background character too

[Watchmaker90]

I am diagnosed with high functioning autism and people generally get offended or perceive me as pretentious simply for the reason that I have a richer vocabulary. What is wrong with being able to express oneself in a larger range of words?

[dinuzuya]

Can some one get a handicap space with asperger's syndrome? :P

[woodsprout]

@dinuzuya I don't think people with Asperger's are wanting Handicap parking.

[ThePhox1982]

What allot of people don't realize is these are the people of tomorrow, we aspies are evolution in the making, and there is progressively more and more of us, so the people who do not understand us must learn to understand us as we will soon begin to out number them.

[ColombianaXO7]

i hate having aspergers cause I suck at almost everything; social skills; math; science; playing an instrument; languages; memory; sports; singing; dancing, etc, etc. People almost always gets mad at me cuase i'm doing something wrong.

[ThePhox1982]

@ColombianaXO7 For me, I can do good at anything but lack interest in everything, I've got 137 IQ but don't know what the heck to do with it in my life and it troubles me greatly. That and seeing things for how they trully are and thinking people are stupid for not seeing what I believe is common sense, I've had to move so often in my life due to lack of jobs and people telling me I must move out because they don't understand me and my disability.

[babylover0990]

@ColombianaXO7 me, too! I never thought there would be another aspie that felt the same way!

[LCSL]

oh ****... now I understand myself !

[mylongbong]

0:55 he was so cute 

[TheMCC14]

0:321 I have aspergers syndrome and I used to say the exact same thing.

[HidingInDarkness]

My brother has Asperber's its very difficult for him to control anything he says. These students look like angels to me like they don't have it at all. My brother can't even talk to me like that without calling me names or swearing every 3 seconds. He is very socially awkward and refuses to interact with anyone else. He lives in a computer world and even there he bring havic. It is very difficult to live with someone with Asperger's Syndrome. I hope someday there will be a 'cure' for it.

[anotherutterance]

@HidingInDarkness He finds it just as difficult to live with you, as you do with him. Maybe they should cure you instead?

Heres why your brother is so pissed off: He lives in a world full of people who tear him apart just for being different, who have humiliated him every day of his life, who want him dead because they are too dense to realise that there might be another way to be and who despite all of the above, like to put themselves on a pedestal.

[missswearerify]

Aspergers syndrome is a hidden disorder and this fact alone can make life very challenging. When people meet me for the first time their natural instinct is to presume i'm going to interact with them as most of the other people they have met in their lives do the challenging part is when they discover this won't be the case.This occurs instantaneously, at the initial meeting...

[xXXREapERCHiLD216XXx]

I relate to all these kids perfectly. I say things without thinking, I either laugh too long at a joke or I dont get it and don't laugh at all, I get teased behind my back and sometimes to my face, I have obsessions that everyone thinks is weird. I brought my feather collection to skool (LOVE BIRDS!) And only one out of my 7 aquaintances was interested. I also have terrible echoalia (this is not mentioned here.

Waiting for my diagnosis!

[An0int]

I'm not sure if I have aspergers but I've taken some quizzes online and all of them have said i was very likely to have it..i've gone through most of what you guys have though..I'm currently picked on alot..teachers think I am sort've wierd and obsessive and i don't have many friends/ don't like interacting...i wish i could get a real diagnosis <.<

[SuperCommentDude2]

Ugh, I feal like I i'm sick of this syndrom. I alway feal like I have to feal ok some-how, but when i'm walking home from school like today this woman walked up from behind me and said "that line is longer than usuall" so I looked at all the lines around the block and didn't see what line she was talking about so I say "what line" and she almost sounded offended so she said "the line of cars at the school". I didn't look at her face so when I said "have a nice day" she ignored me :(

[HidingInDarkness]

@SuperCommentDude2 : Don't worry about it, I do not have Asperger's and I wouldn't have known what she was talking about either. Karma will get back at her in the end, you were very polite and did nothing wrong :)

[spiderwebbie96]

@flupmakintosh That's so mean. I have aspergers and my teachers never did that. They did think I was odd though.

[neji23x]

i have problems understanding whats going on around me

[MagnetThunder3528]

i found out i had it mildly (70% of the full condition)when i was 2 and i don't care. to me everybody else is broken not me.this world makes no sense and is so shallow and unneeded.i think if aspies ruled the world it would be a pretty awesome thing and socially people are just unnecessarily complex like say people when they go out they are all pretending to be nicer and funnier than they already are but TRUE CHARACTER is way more important than the show people put on in social environments.

[Pinkalicious112]

I had not heard of Asperger syndrome until recently, this upload was very informative. Thank you so much.

[RyDogRidesTheBus]

Oh my god: my life story right here

[SojournerLi]

"If hell is the impossibility of reason, then satan must be a psychiatrist." - Sojourner Li

I have Aspergers BTW, But I call it something else. =D

[gamelvr1]

@SojournerLi Just out of curiosity what do you call it. I have asperger's likewise for the record.

[purpletwist64]

my step mom told me that I have Asburger syndrome after I graduated highscholl, I wish I knew sooner beacause I was picked on alot and no one could help me, I don't think my own mother doesn't even know about this Syndrom or she does and try to avoided and if I told her she might look at me and tell me I don't have it. so I went my whole life, with out knowing this Syndrome , and friends who don't wanna hang out with me outside of school hours

[nofood36]

I'm 19 years old and was just told that I have Asberger's Altisum maybe 3 month ago. It was extremly hard in school for me growing up, but luckaly I had true friends who stuck by me and protected me. Even so, I had troble keeping on task or even thinking at all some times. And the teachers would just look through me, except for a few... But now I wonder, if I had been told sooner, before all the rough school years, would it have been easyer, or just as hard... Any ways, I wish you all well.

[potetgull0]

Is it normal for people with AS to kinda be better at imagine things? When I do math I sorta see the numbers in my head and I do the math visually in my head. I just had to ask lol.

[southport97]

Asperger's is not a "disease" or "disorder." It's more of a biochemical, neurological condition than anything

[BlendingLikeColors]

I have asperger and people think I'm so strange because I communicate differently....but I can't help it. :/

[TheDarcij]

This brought tears to my eyes. I agree with them all. I never know the right things to say in a conversation. I was diagnosed in December 2008. I am 12 almost 13 so i was diagnosed when I was ten. Living with Aspergers is really hard sometimes. It affects me, and my family. I feel like a lot of people don't understand me, and that really hurts. But I know God understands my disability and I know he is with me in all troubles.

God bless everyone with and without aspergers :)

[Jim20622]

@TheDarcij

My Dear, First I want to say I admire your strength I understand the hardships you and your family are going through, and I encourage you to never give up. My son is 9 and was diagnosed at 4, and when you said "You felt like people don't understand you and that it really hurts" That just replayed the troubles my son has experienced throughout the years. As a 47 year old man "This brings tears to my eyes" Yes God understands and is with you in all your troubles. I am too take care!

[ASDspecialist]

Thanks. I think this helps other children and teens see that they are not alone, and also can help increase tolerance of people who seem a little different.

[salm37]

Aspergers=shy?

[BlendingLikeColors]

@salm37 Aspergers = Communication problems. Shy yes, but trouble with speech as well. I also have aspergers.

[Stephie2007]

i was treated this way too. kids would save seats at the lunch tables for all their friends, they would make fun of me and my brother (who has a learning disability) it was horrible and i pray it should never happen this way again. but truth be known, kids just down get it.

[SaiKoSeSu]

@RightfullyReticent

That's exactly like me...

[EWilsonLife]

It seems like many people with asperger's syndrom have EXTREME fascinations with things like math and science. I had an uncle that had it, and he had an obsession with dates and times. I wish people had a better understanding of people with aspergers, I think they're incredible people.

[WIIsurferNR1]

@ EwilsonLife

funny fact, everyone with Aspergers have a special interest which they are nearly obsessed with. A majority of them have trains and train schedules as their special interest.

[Lightofsol]

@WIIsurferNR1 No majority are not train likers it can be any subject you could think of.

[01stanbk]

this was a really reashoring vidio becouse i often feel i'm the only person with aspergers and mainly i persive my self as 'normal', it's just i don't nessarly enjoy the sametings my pear group enjoy doing and this just made me realse i am not lone. so thank you.

[Zagotronikz]

im 12 years old and i have it if anyone wants to see if i can relate to you reply 2 me i find it incredibly hard in school but acidemicly i am far ahead i had an official IQ test at the age of 10 my IQ was 125 and i was told that that was better than most 16 year olds and therefore they deemed me 6 years ahead menttally. a lot of people attempt to bully me for my AS but i have knocked roughly 20 bullys out becouse of it.

[PinkPunkyKat]

This is why my parents took me out to homeschool me....and the fact I was being abused by the teachers and they tried to lie to my parents that everything was my fault.

[gamelvr1]

That's horrible. The sad truth is when we were in school (your profile said you're 23, same age as me). Knowledge of Asperger's was still in its infancy when it came to the public. I've even found out that my parents were advised against letting my school know about it (middle school at the time), because they "wouldn't know what to do." I'm not trying to make excuses for what your teachers did. I apologize if you knew some the info I mentioned already.

[mrspussygirl9]

i have aspergers some times i find it hard to develop social skills but i am ok and for those out there with aspergers dont be offended and upset because it just happens you'll grow out of it (:

[indigo12ash]

I have Asberger's and people think I am crazy, too smart and plain weird. I can't control what I say. It's not my fault that I am the smartest in my math class. I am only a freshman and the rest of my "normal" classmates are sophmores. AS is like unwillingly giving up social abilities for intellect.

[NamekianPikkoro7]

No doubt! So true.

[01stanbk]

i totally agree, even though i'm savaraly dyslexic as well having AS i'm often always studying consitently, and in genral i enjoy it, it's defently esayer than trying to interact in social situations, but it can be onely at the same time.

[coronaqueen221]

@indigo12ash omg i am a complete sucker for people w/ high intelligence...I CANNOT STAND people with an intellect below mine...does that happen with you too? One thing I really admire about people with AS is how dedicated they are..I suspect I have mild aspergers but i was diagnosed as bipolar...wish I had that kind of willpower

[49bestgurl]

@indigo12ash honey you can't call your other classmates "normal" cause there is no such thing as normal! your special keep your head up and keep smiling :)

[warioware654]

@indigo12ash I know what you're talking about. I've seen that conclusion way too many times.

[jessicatron]

@indigo12ash Are you in treatment? If so, how are you progressing with your social skills?

[mushroomonthemoon]

@indigo12ash especially when those social behaviours are oppositional to logic.

[ClaraRose99]

@indigo12ash I'm an Aspergers child too. That's something we can't help. Kids will treat us differently. Maybe it's us that's different? I don't know, really. In anyway, if you have Aspergers and go to school, the school should have to do stuff for you, like my school does. For example, I have a special needs assistant. Teachers would also understand why I have my hands over my ears and won't tell me to stop. I think I'm the first Aspergers to go there but in anyway, accept that you're different

[xoxospoiledgirl]

@indigo12ash I don't think there's anything wrong with you being in advanced classes. I'm a sophomore with asperger's syndrome & I'm not in any advanced classes, however, my brother, who's a freshman, doesn't have asperger's syndrome is in sophomore classes too (geometry & chem).

[XTSonic]

@indigo12ash Spot on. I'd give up my right leg if I could to be able to trade in 30-40 IQ points for normal social skills.

Unfortunately, there's no "cure"

[smoke10108]

that's just like me! Now I think I have asperger syndromes. It's like after i'm done talking with people and I turn away. it always feels like there talking bad or they are talking bad. Soon! They start making fun of me. FOR NO REASON! I mean.. I only try to be nice but yet people look at me like some strange person. It's hard making friends! But yet if i meet people who are kinda in my level. I think it makes it okay. But not people in a higher level. I wish people would understand in this word

[mylovesofmylife]

Being Obsessed with something, you enjoy and become good at what you do and it harms nobody else, no need to judge someone for that they are not hurting anyone.

[Sniffy92]

I agreed on so many things in this video. When everyone laughs, I'm the last to stop laughing. The thing about the school cafeteria also applies for me. I'm also treated like a background character. There is more to be than the things I'm obsessed about. Computer animation and video game design is what I want to work with too!! Oh, one thing no one in the video mentioned: I hate it when people always tell me what to do, and how to do it.

[scaleshchess]

these kids are lucky to even know what they have - when I was growing up people didn't even know what AS is. I'm talking 80s here. Even these days my parents don't know I have it - they are in some sort of denial I guess.

[mephistophilesgirl]

I have AS; I am so glad that someone made a video without the severe stimming and speech impediments that people are so happy to attribute to every case of Asperger's. Thank you for this insight.

[Christinafan2002]

some of these kids sound and look a lot like some of the people I've met at the support group I've attended, every year. I just wish I could more people like that who were more my own age though. That's the only down side. But I also sometimes like working with spread sheets on my computer too.

[Kevn3000]

idk if this applies to me only have like half the stuff

[AskariWaryaa]

I have always been misunderstood. In school teachers would underestimate my intellectual abilities (I now understand that I have an elevated intellect). Other kids had difficulties understanding me, I also could not understand them. As a consequence I have had a very poor social life, never had a girlfriend and have always been avoided by others around me apart from a few.

I also come from an poor background and ethnic minority, so you can guess why all of this happened!

[bubbaluvchocolate]

Thats it? I have AS my self!

[curiousaboutthispuma]

I agree with the girl. If I just followed certain things and fitted in before people got the chance to judge me..people would see how funny, caring and entertaining I truly am. But they decide to go by the times theyve seen me have a meltdown at school..(that was when I was younger..i have a lot more control with meltdowns in a public place now that i'm 16)..

[Loves2laugh15]

IMO, people who think differently from others are so much more enjoyable to be around.

[DianaMarie777]

Thanks for sharing = my daughter a junior in high school is just now in the process of being diagnosed. She is wonderfully and beautifully made = just you all are. GBU & HJD!

[DIProgan]

It seems like most people AS or not constantly goes on rambling about the negatives or just being defensive about the subject. The positive sides of these abilities needs to be explored and well used! Not fit into a victim system. There's simply huge untapped resources here. If Bill Gates could become the richest guy on earth i'm sure you or your AS friend can be great things too! So let's get stimulated and have great lifes whatever that means when it comes to social life or lack thereof.

[frements]

i agree whole hearted with you ive got aspergers and learnign difficultys yes i too dwell on the negitives but i also love the  hightend stuff too ie my memory i an memoryze stuff like music movies in fact entertainment is my obbsesion and thats where my memory comes in to it i write dr who fan scripts i have a wild imagenation wich helps a lot so yea theres a lot of positive stuff about atutisim one of the best things is iam a very caring guy

[notagain001]

if this is a preview then where's the rest?

[ccricers]

The worst kind of diseases/syndromes are the ones that people do not know you have.

[drkhloser]

That comment said exactly what i've been trying to say for years.

Well Stated.

[Lostfaith1980]

@ccricers Problem is having AS how do we know when your just informing a friend of your condition so they can deal with the things we may say or do, to when we end up pushing the subject constantly. I know I can't tell the difference between these two. Can you?

[icecreamandsingasong]

Your all beautiful focussed people, who the world needs hard, the rest is just crazy I mean really!! Look around you!

[notagain001]

For the young woman at 0:40s, how were you diagnosed and how do you feel be. ing a woman with asperger's differs from those of males? I'm an aspie myself. Not sure if Ive met a woman with aspergers. feel free to PM me.

[Kate0Loves0Leo666]

I've seen this in school.

[confusion66666666666]

i have aspergers and my obbsession is guitar hero. ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!! anyway nice video.

[Pwnagemonkey1]

haha nice to see a fellow metal aspie :D

[GlamAholic]

ey Japanese dudes are ''obbessions''every game so... =).