Hi, pddmother! I guess that I'm happy. I'm on the mood stabilizer Lamictal, which has greatly reduced my Asperger's mood swings and has made me much more calm. I was teased a lot in elementary school, up through sixth grade. I think it was because I was eccentric as well as independent, and I didn't care what anyone thought about the way I dressed or anything like that. In seventh grade, I was teased less. Even though my school had a lot of cliques in it, and I know that some people always did talk about me behind my back, I wasn't really teased or ostracized. I think this may be because my school had a lot of "smart" people, and since I was one, I got a lot of respect. Really, I think the high population of intellectuals is the reason that I had so many long-term friends, and when I say "many," I mean about six, which is the highest number of really close friends I ever have had at one time. I still keep in touch with them all, but we all were quirky in some way, although I was definitely the most idiosyncratic. I never did "typical teenage things" in high school, and I still don't. I'm the type of person who stays at home and reads her chemistry book on the weekends rather than go to a party filled with crowds of annoying people, noise, and all types of trouble that would send my OCD into hyperdrive. At college, there aren't nearly as many intellectuals as there were at my high school, which is ironic because it's the opposite of what one might expect. I really only have made three good friends up there. I still get greatly annoyed with normal people, the 90% of my peers that I'm forced to be around that are very superficial and don't care about learning, and many days I do feel misunderstood and helpless, but it's gotten better over the past few months now that I actually know why I feel this way. If you have any more questions, let me know!
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