I have both autism and schizophrenia so I already have a struggle fitting in with people. Well most of my friends also have autism as well. My best friend has autism and so does my brother who I have gotten close with. Recently though everyone just makes me angry. My best friend hardly talks to me anymore and spends more time with my brother then he spends with me and when I try to make contact he just ignores me or makes up an excuse. My brother does the same now too.
One of my close friends invited me to one of her parties this weekend, which is strange cause I never really was invited to parties and she seems like my only friend who asks me that. She knows about my schizophrenia and autism and told me that I didn’t have to go if I feel stressed or uncomfortable. I told her I would go, I don’t want to be selfish, so now I am planned to go on Saturday. Honestly I’m stressed about it because of all the people going and the fact that there will most likely be liquor. I drank a lot in the past and am trying to stay off booze which gets harder to stay off every day. It’s not booze though I’m to worried about though it’s more the amount of unfamiliar people that will be there just thinking about them makes me feel anxious. I don’t want them to look at me, but I know they will I can already see them in my head.
Lastly I am frustrated about people in general, for some reason they just irritate me so much now. Yet I don’t want to be in my house alone, which is weird cause I don’t want to see people. I feel trapped all the time to a point where I spend excessive amounts of time staring at a wall. I honestly don’t know how to get out. I’m also stressed about going back to school on Monday cause I have a test that I don’t have the mental health to even focus on studying. I feel like I am going to fail the course and deep inside I somewhat honestly hope I do just so I don’t have to go back to school because my classmates constantly treat me like crap and I don’t want to deal with them anymore.
Now I’m just rambling. I just have a lot going on in my head at the moment.
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Don’t worry about rambling, it’s good to vent and get it off your chest 
I’m sorry about your brother and your mate, have you spoken to your brother about it all? What do you do for fun?
About the party, try to push all anxious thoughts out of your head, (which is the hardest thing to do, I know) but can you speak to your mate and see if you’re okay to hang out with her for the most part and get her to introduce you to people!
Hope it goes well for you and you have a good time!
Well my friend is very understanding as she has shown me in the past. She brought me to a bar for my very first time and she made sure to stick by me so I wasn’t uncomfortable which I still highly was, but it was nice of her to be a good friend. My brother and best friend seem to do everything together now and I just feel like I’m out of the picture now which depresses me.
I’m trying to think what I would do in that situation, try to hang out with your brother without your matebeing there and invite him to the cinema as bro bonding time? Then maybe he won’t leave you out, I dunno man! Hope it fixes itself!
And your friend seems really understanding, sounds like you should hang out with her more! 
sounds like a keeper!
Yea sadly most of the time though I spend alone. I haven’t really spent time with any friends for a week so far.
I know the feeling, I’m alone all the time too! 
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Yea it sucks but I’ve been like this a lot lately where I’d be alone for a long period of time I’m just beginning to accept it.
I will give you advice @dannyboy6657.
First of all, your best friend and your brother seem to avoid you.
You can’t force people to be in contact with you.
The solution I offer you, if you see they are not interested in your company,
is try to find other friends.
I feel that the party is a great opportunity for you.
Social interactions appear to be a weakness of yours,
you have to try to overcome your anxiety about the event.
In the ideal case, you should try to socialize with people and be active at the party, however difficult it may be.
It may be an opportunity for you to find new friends(as I said new friends might be a good idea).
It is not good to just stare at a wall, try to do something instead of staring,
try to occupy yourself somehow.
Regarding failing the course, due to health problems, well try to do as best as you can, and if you fail
I guess you can try again.
Are you sure that your classmates really treat you like crap, or are you just being paranoid?
I send you my love,
Erez.
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I have other friends it’s just I never really see them. I have one friend I think who is trying to see me but he is always working. Also my classmates aren’t that great to me I’ve watched them actively ignore me. I am paranoid of them but I still know when people don’t want to talk to me. It just hurts because they go to all these things together and talk all the time with each other and seem like good friends, but when I talk they go quiet and give me weird looks. I feel like a freak to them, I guess it doesn’t help that I don’t have anything in common with them. I at least have one friend from the class who is 30 years older then me. She at least treats me human.
Well, @dannyboy6657 you are a lovely boy.
I think that if you don’t see them(the friends) it’s not well.
I think that you should take the initiative.
Like for example take your brother.
Give him a surprise hug, and tell him that you love him and you feel that he is avoiding you and ask him why.
Tell him that you would love to be his friend, and ask him if its Ok for him to deal with you.
Do the same with your best friend. Try to " confront" them. They might stop ignoring you.
Seeing that now they de facto ignore you, you can only gain from being assertive- in the worst case
they will tell you explicitly that they don’t want to deal with you,
but it won’t harm you because they have been de facto ignoring you.
Also, if they tell you they don’t want to deal with you, they are not lost, you may try again later.
Now you claim that you have other friends and don’t see them.
Why, again, be assertive! Pick up the receiver, call them, talk to them, tell them you want to meet them.
If the friendships are on the back burner, try to revive them with meetings and phone conversations,
with you the initiator.
If you feel that your classmates are treating you like a freak, ask them why?
Why do you go silent and look at me that way?
Tell them you feel they don’t treat you right, and perhaps they will treat you better.
Please give me feedback on my advice.
I send you my love,Erez