Struggling with Siblings

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For those of you who don't know, I don't have a formal diagnosis, but I'm kind of at that '99% sure I have Asperger's' stage. Just waiting for an assessment. I meet quite a lot of the criteria, particularly struggling with reading social cues and understanding peoples 'boundaries', obsessing over things, overstimulation with sound and having trouble with certain textures.

I have a younger sister who is fifteen years old (I'm eighteen). She can be quite blunt and a bit rude at times, and I am very sensitive. She's made it clear to me over and over that she doesn't believe that I have any problem at all. She thinks I'm claiming 'overstimulation' to avoid spending time out in the living room with her ENTIRE soccer team, which is about ten loud teens too many for me. She says I'm claiming texture issues to avoid folding laundry. She hates everything that I love to talk about and am interested in. I feel like she hates me for not being 'normal'.

Does anyone else have this problem? If so, how do you deal with it?

she's fifteen, not the most wise age. try to ignore her unreasonable comments. be the mature one. look for things that you both agree on and compliment what she does right. in the meantime, stand you ground about not hanging with her whole troupe of friends.

my brother is 5yrs younger than me. he's a social butterfly...travels constantly...and thinks i'm a faker. when i complain about the position i work at..for my job...he rolls his eyes and claims he could do my job...

Regarding autism, my brother could care less. He only knows low-functioning. He's 2 years younger and claims that there's no problems. My sister is 1 2/3 years older. She knows nothing, but she likes me the way I am.

My sister and I fight whenever I mention Aspergers. She knows I have a diagnosis, even though it doesn't fit completely, (I show too much emotion and have no monotone, though everything else fits,) She doesn't seem to care what it means. (I learned to read some social cues, , She gets so annoyed at me. We still love each other.

I have two sisters and a brother. One sister and one brother live in a different household, but one of my sisters lives with me. She is probably one of the b*tchiest people I know, and also fifteen.

What works best for me is speaking to her intelligently (which is when she resorts to un-intelligent interrupting), and just ignoring her. She's not very wise or smart yet (although she insists that she is practically "grown up"), so just dealing with her until I get the first chance to get away from her is what I'll settle for.

Good luck with your sister.

I feel your pain. My sister is 15 as well and I just had a horrible fight with her. She made me feel really claustrophobic and didn't care to do anything about it. And even when I told my mom about it, my sister still acted like a prick. I was seriously fed up with the disrespect that I became physically forceful with her, pretty much I dragged her butt off of the couch to bring her to our mom. I would say that if you're older and you're in a fight with your sister, I would say that it would be best to show them who's boss, but younger siblings fight back, so tell your parents even if your siblings find you to be a snitch. Honestly, it's better to be a snitch than to be nothing at all.