What's wrong with me?

Question

I'm not like the other kids my age (17). I don't drink or do drugs or even act out. I have no desire to.

I know alot about life without ever have gone through any of the experiences. I feel like I understand more than others my age.

I don't have any close friends at school. I mainly stick around my teachers and older influences. I've been called old before my time. I don't connect with my peers so well.

It has always been this way. Ever since I can remember at least.

also, my brother has been a huge influence on me. He wasn't the best kid. I'm afraid to make his mistakes.

Am I even normal?

Answer 1

Congratulations Amanda for making good choices in your life instead of bad ones. It's great you can learn from others saving yourself the tragic lessons of "learning the hard way" don't be afraid of life, use this time to understand people and what really makes the world go 'round. You will find others like yourself as you get older so don't worry. You are normal.

Answer 2

There is nothing wrong with you
many people like to hang around the teachers
your 17 you shouldn't really be drinking or taking drugs
its not only you that hasnt got a close friend at school
join a team
start a club be friendly but not to anxious
its not only you
somone out there will love to be your friend
it doesnt matter about your brother
you should make mistakes and learn from them
thats life
and lastly nobody is normal
they is nothing in the world that is normal
your speacial just think about that
i hope this helps

Answer 3

It's ok there is nothing wrong with you...
you dont have to follow others if it don't help you, drink and drugs are nonsense it won't give you anything...

maybe you dont have close friend at school but you might still get good friends outside school... i'm sure that there are also people who have the same feeling like you did...

Me myself sometime I feel something like that, if I learned too much people will say that I'm boring, sucks or whatever
but if I do things they did hanging out and stuffs my parents or teacher will be upset...

then I remembered what my master Ernest Wong said
"Life is shaking, what must you do?"
and the answer is... " I balance my life"

so what did I become? I became both Soccer Team Captain and The President of Student Council, still with my good grades...

But there are still some people who are against me, but then I just say ""No Matter Everyone looks down at Me.. No Matter No One Understand Me... I'm at Least who I am...Coz who I am makes a difference..."

just do what you have to do... with No Fear and No Regret!

Answer 4

I'm 24 now, and the people at work make fun of me saying I'm a 60 year old in a 24 year old's body. I never drank or did drugs in school. I worked and took my job very seriously. Even now, I go out and drink sometimes, but nothing excessive, I don't quite understand the need to binge drink. I never really had a lot of friends either, especially in high school. Things did change a bit when I got to college, I found people similar to myself. You're probably just more mature than the people your age. There's nothing wrong with it. You'll probably fare better in life than some of your immature classmates, at least that's what I used to tell myself :-)

Answer 5

Though there is nothing really wrong with you but there are a few things which can make your life still better.You see,most of us know the missing or weak links in our life but fail to take any measures to either to correct them or cultivate some thing more in it.This happens primarily due to lethargy or a indifference and rarely in taking a false pride in our backwardness(whatever it may mean to each of us).What we need to think is as how to balance our life so that well-being content increases and we progressively and continuously live a better and better life.In your case,nobody would know better than you as what to do,hence no advice to you,Just rethink and take the steps to improve or enhance the quality of your life and well-being content in it,if you so desire.Good luck.

Answer 6

There is nothing wrong with you, I don't drink or do drugs even if I had the chance. I hanged around teachers before and I'm only 15.

Answer 7

I don't know much about it, but there is a form of autism that makes people act like that. My 16 yea old cousin has it and has refered to everyone at school as worthless. You may want to look some stuff up about it. Sorry, I wasn't more help...

Answer 8

maybee you are maturing too early, I always hang out with older peers like mentors with experience.... I alway sloooook up to my older peers for advice. Today clueless teenagers ahve nothing to learn but a hard old lesson

Answer 9

Maybe you have Asperger's Syndrome. I have that. Don't worry about it. It's within the range of normality, but it sure is makes people peculiar. We're all sort of like Mr. Spock on Star Trek.

Look at this:

http://ani.autistics.org/dsm4-aspergers.html

Answer 10

Hm. You sound just like me. Only i found life out the hard way when it came to growing up faster than the rest.

None the less, i think you are perfectly normal.