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Feel very sad

Roswell

I crave social contact more than most Autistic people. I'm unbearably bored with having a lack of interesting people to talk to. People who are interesting to me are well educated and have an enquiring mind, well I suppose part of the problem is I only have 3 GCSEs and ADHD so I'm not  that well educated myself. Feels like I don't fit in anywhere basically.

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  • You seem very articulate to me. What's more important for me is what kind of a human being someone is. Not everyone is academically minded anyway and I have met some ' educated ' people who couldn't boil an egg in real life. Lack of educational credentials shouldn't stop you meeting interesting people or getting on in life. 

    Whatever your interests are, you will always find others who happen to share some of those with you. Some of the most interesting people are those who have educated themselves or experienced tough times. You don't need to live your life through any one else's standards only your own.

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  • You seem very articulate to me. What's more important for me is what kind of a human being someone is. Not everyone is academically minded anyway and I have met some ' educated ' people who couldn't boil an egg in real life. Lack of educational credentials shouldn't stop you meeting interesting people or getting on in life. 

    Whatever your interests are, you will always find others who happen to share some of those with you. Some of the most interesting people are those who have educated themselves or experienced tough times. You don't need to live your life through any one else's standards only your own.

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  • in reply to Turtle
    Turtle said:
    Lack of educational credentials shouldn't stop you meeting interesting people or getting on in life. 

    My uncle left school at 15 with no qualifications and is one of the most interesting people you'll ever meet.      He's a very old man now and I'm, apart from his wife, probably the only person that knows he's aspie and dyslexic.    He's struggled his whole life - but he felt comfortable enough with me to open up completely.       He has lived a magnificent life.         I don't think his own son knows the full story..