I played a prank on someone with Asperger syndrome and feel bad now?

Yes, I'm tired of being ignored, left out and avoided. I don't usually get lonely when I'm alone, but I can get very lonely when I'm around people that I know and am being ignored by all of them and left out repeatedly, despite making an effort to socialize with them. People keep telling us we should socialize more, but when we try to socialize those same people ignore us or tease us.

They complain about us being too quiet, but ignore us when we talk or shut us out of conversations if we try to join in. It seems that the more we try, the harder they slap us in the face with rejection, and then they act all surprised about why we don't socialize more.

I'm an adult dxed with Asperger's, and adult life isn't much different from the way high school was, only more subtle. Online interaction is just as perplexing as 'real life' social interaction. There are so many micro rules with online communication, it is almost as complicated if not more so than talking to someone in real life (people underestimate this!) As an adult, work was miserable.....was always ignored or barely tolerated by coworkers.

It was a miserable experience. Just know you are not alone here, as it causes a pain in my stomach to feel rejected like this. At least a lot of other people with AS will read this and hopefully relate.

EDIT: Just read Cassie haz's post.....can relate to the feigning interest stuff. If you try to fake it and fit in, people see right through it, they don't cut us any slack:(.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.