Thread:McAlastair/@comment-26356785-20161112205000/@comment-8695373-20161113123424

Well, if you exclude Asperger and being half-asian, a lot of people have experienced the same. Some of them are too weak to overcome it and forever live as victims, others punch everyone who bullies them in the face and live as normal people.

I don't know much about ASD, it is not counted as an illness in Russia, but from what I gathered, you have troubles with interacting with other people. You have to put a lot of effort to do things that others do naturally, something that deserves respect.

And racists are just so pathetic that the only way for them to gain some sort of self-confidence is to bully someone just because they were born with a skin color different from their.

To sum it up, this is a somewhat normal experience for a person in your circumstances. You grew up in a wrong environment, that's all.

Seriously though, asking a Russian about socializing stuff is pointless: we never were good at it. It is impolite to express emotions around strangers here, all conversations with said strangers should be blunt and straightforward, we go right to the point ignoring all the small talks, you got the idea. We also don't smile to be polite, we smile when we feel like it.

Maybe that's why Asperger is not an illness here...