Feel very sad

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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  • I hear you. I feel the same way. But to me interesting almost equates with abnormal, or at least querky. You know when I was younger I found a girl and some others handing out heart shaped balloons outside college. I asked her why and she told me it was her birthday and they'd brought balloons for everyone in her class and had some left over they were handing out on the street. ... and an almost giggling boys voice behind her tells her to stop lying, that lying is bad. Apparently it was actually part of an STD awareness campaign. She felt that was too boring and made something up ... now that's interesting. My friend waking up his housemate by holding a jousting match involving two trolleys and a pair of mops under her window, to defend her honour don't you know, that's interesting.

    All the things they say you shouldn't talk about in polite company, politics, sex, war, odd crimes, rare surgery, obscure diseases, bizarre legal cases, extreme body modification, that's interesting. Friends having a heated argument about whether, if dropped from sufficient hight, an elephant would explode on impact, that's interesting. 

    You know the maths of string theory and chaotic orbital dynamics, that's interesting. Weird old or foreign films and media that don't conform to modern western values, that's interesting. The problem with interesting is the definition can be very very variable from person to person.

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  • I hear you. I feel the same way. But to me interesting almost equates with abnormal, or at least querky. You know when I was younger I found a girl and some others handing out heart shaped balloons outside college. I asked her why and she told me it was her birthday and they'd brought balloons for everyone in her class and had some left over they were handing out on the street. ... and an almost giggling boys voice behind her tells her to stop lying, that lying is bad. Apparently it was actually part of an STD awareness campaign. She felt that was too boring and made something up ... now that's interesting. My friend waking up his housemate by holding a jousting match involving two trolleys and a pair of mops under her window, to defend her honour don't you know, that's interesting.

    All the things they say you shouldn't talk about in polite company, politics, sex, war, odd crimes, rare surgery, obscure diseases, bizarre legal cases, extreme body modification, that's interesting. Friends having a heated argument about whether, if dropped from sufficient hight, an elephant would explode on impact, that's interesting. 

    You know the maths of string theory and chaotic orbital dynamics, that's interesting. Weird old or foreign films and media that don't conform to modern western values, that's interesting. The problem with interesting is the definition can be very very variable from person to person.

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