Or were you completely normal before the illness kicked in ? I was very much a loner with no friends and difficulty interacting with others. I was bullied for being different.
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I never fitted it I think. Living seemed easy to others. It’s like they didn’t have to try to fit in whereas I always felt I was faking it trying to fit in.
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Yes I was a loner all my life and always stayed in background . People at my school called me weird.
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My friends called me quirky. Not in a bad way. I was definitely odd.
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I was always a bit odd, always was a hyper child with mind racing, had a bad upbringing which never helped
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I was popular as a kid and then puberty came and I developed social anxiety but still had close friends.
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I think I stood out as odd as a child. I tried to fit in when I was a teen but I was just weird. I think I fit in better now that I’ve mellowed out and I’m not so obnoxious.
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I was always strange. Being gay didn’t help. I went to my first Marilyn Manson concert when I was 12 and did mushrooms. I think I was destine to be a little off.
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I’ve always been different. Funny. People try so hard to be different but we don’t have much of a choice.
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I was bullied throughout my life.
For a short period of time I bullied others as a kid.
I’m ashamed to admit this.
I got bullied growing up because I was a pretty quiet person. Elementary was fun, middle school was okay, and high school sucked. I was glad when it ended. College went back to being fun, just like elementary.
I don’t think I’m odd, just quiet.
My daughter was bullied pretty bad
Oh yeah, Ive always been weird, even when I was a kid
I was very unhappy since kid. I was in hell as teenager already. Plus, strange things were happening in my head even since kid.
Oh yeah, I was always the weird one.
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I was normal but struggled a bit socially. I guess that’s why they thought I had Aspergers…
School and life was easy until upper division courses in math. Getting Cs and stuff really made me depressed and anxious. I guess that was the prodromal period or the period I had cognitive problems like dementia. I also had a hunch or feeling something happened to me around this time.
Don’t get me wrong those math classes were tough and I struggled. I wasn’t prepared mathematically. I tried my best but didn’t know how to study smart. I did study a lot but I also goofed off a lot.
I blame my dad and video games for isolating me and poor performance or lack of interest in school.
i always say the same thing, i think yes ive always been odd but maybe everyone is, some its not as visible obvious as others but who knows maybe i really am one of the few odd ones
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More than a bit. I was pretty shy and withdrawn as a kid. I was a loner but I had a couple of friends who I grew up with and we hung out from about fifth grade and through high school.
There were huge gaps of time when we were mad at each other and two of us would gang up on the third guy and we would cut them out. We took turns doing this, we all three went through it with each other.
I was pretty odd looking. I had long hair and ugly glasses. But despite being odd, I had a lot of fun as a kid and did a lot of normal things. Girls thought my friends were good looking so they got attention from girls and some girls through themselves at my friends. I guess I should have been happy for my friends but it hurt my feelings and made me feel bad for myself. It made it harder for me because they were way ahead and above me in that department.
I had little going for me and I had low self-esteem but I used to tell myself, “You’re pretty cool for a guy who wears glasses.” I’m not sure nowadays if wearing glasses as a kid has the stigma that it had back in the seventies when I was growing up. In school you always had one token fat guy and one or two guys who wore glasses. Wearing glasses labeled you a geek and almost guaranteed that you would be picked on but I still was pretty cool and didn’t get bullied much.
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I wasn’t odd until I was fifteen. Then I turned odd, and I stayed odd. Though I didn’t show any signs of schizophrenia until I was fifteen, I can see the seeds of my subsequent mental illness in my personality before then.
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I was pretty normal I think. If not normal, then at least social and outgoing. I was on the cheerleading team and did student council in high school. I had a good group of friends. Man I miss those days.
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