Genetically Doomed
Humanity is really horrifying.
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When I was a kid, I was the epitome of an ubernormie. Nobody at school was in a relationship and it wasn't even an issue. I was not the kid you'd think would grow up to be popular but i was far from an outcast. I'm autistic, but i seemed more like a kid with ADHD rather than autism. Some kids at my school were eccentric yet, in hindsight, were certainly not autistic whatsoever. I was just some eccentric normie kid, but while I was seen as weird to some degree, I wasn't seen as weird as i would be later on.
In my teens I began to really fall behind socially and developmentally and more so in young adulthood. I notice I don't blend in a lot of with many autistic guys and even less so than with neurotypical people. Neurotypical people are out of my league in terms who i can blend in with, and I can blend in with people with ADHD or very mild autism, but it's usually in the short term and then they don't respond to me as often anymore. Autistic guys who are not very communicative and really bad socially are always available to hang out but I struggle conversing with someone who has unusually bad social skills even compared to me. Even my interests are different from them as much as it is among neurotypical people.
The one kind of outsiders I can wish I could blend with are alternative subculture people, and they have a lot of people with ADHD or very mild autism, but they respond less to me soon, too. My kid self thought they were cool even if he was nothing like them. It's hard to meet people in alternative subcultures, and they're mostly men (especially metalheads). Autistic people who are at least on my part of the spectrum are never in those subcultures. All of them exclusively like the latest Nintendo games or just fanfiction.
I blended in with average joe kids as a kid because I was an average joe. As an adult, I still feel like I'm meant to blend in with either them or people in alternative subcultures for this reason (I listen to metal, too, which is another reason). Nonetheless, I always am just some average joe trapped in the body of an outsider among all groups of other people.
If my kid self resembled who I am now, I'd be an average joe right now with an average life. My life went down a different path when I hit puberty. Many people like me were always outcasts.
In my teens I began to really fall behind socially and developmentally and more so in young adulthood. I notice I don't blend in a lot of with many autistic guys and even less so than with neurotypical people. Neurotypical people are out of my league in terms who i can blend in with, and I can blend in with people with ADHD or very mild autism, but it's usually in the short term and then they don't respond to me as often anymore. Autistic guys who are not very communicative and really bad socially are always available to hang out but I struggle conversing with someone who has unusually bad social skills even compared to me. Even my interests are different from them as much as it is among neurotypical people.
The one kind of outsiders I can wish I could blend with are alternative subculture people, and they have a lot of people with ADHD or very mild autism, but they respond less to me soon, too. My kid self thought they were cool even if he was nothing like them. It's hard to meet people in alternative subcultures, and they're mostly men (especially metalheads). Autistic people who are at least on my part of the spectrum are never in those subcultures. All of them exclusively like the latest Nintendo games or just fanfiction.
I blended in with average joe kids as a kid because I was an average joe. As an adult, I still feel like I'm meant to blend in with either them or people in alternative subcultures for this reason (I listen to metal, too, which is another reason). Nonetheless, I always am just some average joe trapped in the body of an outsider among all groups of other people.
If my kid self resembled who I am now, I'd be an average joe right now with an average life. My life went down a different path when I hit puberty. Many people like me were always outcasts.
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