Dear "You"...From "Me"-Letters Unsent
Dear Me,
I'm trying. i really am. sometimes some barriers are just too much to break down. i guess, it is true. even after everything i have experienced, i still hold out hope, even when i should give up.
i'm sorry for all the harm i have caused. this illness is like a cancer to the mind. perhaps with better circumstances, i would have been a better person.
Dear old-coworker/boss,
You confuse me, a lot. One minute you were very kind, the next you were an a-hole, rude just generally crappy to be around.
I feel that, despite my hard work and work ethic, that I was just a body to do work.
I also feel that you wanted me to leave, because of my....social problems. Yet when I come into that place to visit my boyfriend you seem super happy and excited to see me. You even go out of your way to talk to me. Even went out of your way to visit me at my new job a few times.
Not sure why you get all giggly and blushy, my friend claims you have a huge crush on me, but I feel like I am a joke to you. It is all illogical to me.
I tried to like you for my boyfriend, he likes you, and now I am stuck trying. I want to tell you the truth, clear all this up, tell you that I have Aspergers but I am a social/confrontational pansy.
Before the rudeness started, it seemed like you would make a nice friend or something, someone to learn some social things from at least.
-old employee
Dear Renaldo, you have found a new level of peace. What kind of close friend I would be to question your choices or your apparent happiness?? Not, NO selfrespecting friend would do so. YOu need to have Martin stop trying to make me feel less alone. REnaldo I am alone and expect to finish the rest of my days that way. PLease stop stalking me and giving me false hope. Ya gotta go, sweetie. YOu will never need me enough to make this work. Eliza
I have a few...
"Dear second grade teacher,
Remember me? I was the girl you always yelled at for 'not getting along with the other students' whenever you saw me crying after recess, because I got bullied, or picked on. I just want you to know, that all the pain and agony you caused me, has haunted me for the rest of my life. While I do have a fairly good life with lots of friends (That I DO get along with), the sound of your screaming voice, echoing through my head. still brings me tears, and cause me stress.
Thanks for cursing me with something that I can never forget. Thank you for causing the pain that I will live through the rest of my life, no matter what. Because of you, I've been forced to suffer from you constantly yelling at me, and giving me the paranoya of thinking that everything is my fault. Thank you for ruining a part of my life which would have probably been much better, if you cared to understand me.
Sincerely, your one and only hated student"
"Dear Yoshi Sister (best friend)
I love you, but If I give you advice, can you please follow it instead of doing the exact opposite? You said that I give good advice, but how can I believe you if you don't follow it? When I tell you that something will happen, it's most likely going to, because I've been through the experience before. I've predicted stuff happening before, and they did. So shouldn't you have learned your lesson by now? If you love me, then you would listen to me. So why don't you listen? Next time something like this happens, don't come crying to me, unless if you are going to ACTUALLY listen to me, from now on.
Sincerely, your little (and oddly more mature) Yoshi sister."
"Dear Orchestra stand partner,
I love you. Not in a romantic way (You know I have a boyfriend), but I look up to you as a big brother. You're kind, supportive, and you always cheer me up. Thanks for always being there for me. I've always wanted to call you 'big brother', but I've been afraid to, because I don't know how you would react. I'm afraid you would think weird of me, and things would be awkward, from that point on. You're an awesome friend. and I'm gonna miss you when you graduate.
Sincerely, the one you always cheer up and entertain during orchestra."
"Dear Orchestra stand partner's girlfriend,
You are absolutely awesome! Ever since we met, all you've been doing is being extremely nice to me, and helping me out, like a real big sister. That's even how we met, is by you comforting me when I broke into tears that one time. People who don't know me usually don't have the heart to do that.
Can I call you my big sister, from now on?
Sincerely, your friend."
Ok, that felt good.
Dear Mother-In-Law,
He's gone. You did your job, you did your best, and now it's over. You'll never have to hear him criticize you again. You can do what you want, go where you want, think what you want, believe what you want. He's dead. You're free. It's time for your life to start. What do you want to do with it?
Love,
The b***h Your Son Married
Dear Wonderful First-Grade Teacher,
I'm so grateful my son got you this year. You're obviously a credit to your profession.
Now PLEASE stop euphemizing and just tell me the truth about my kid. It makes me want to scream when people try to be politically correct. I cannot understand what you are trying to say, so I assume the worst.
Sincerely,
The Brat's Mother
Dear People,
I am so sick and tired of your polite smiles, your fake sympathy, your empty compliments, and your BS lies. JUST SICK OF IT. What do you expect me to do-- read your friggin' minds??? I'm sure this is an ASD thing-- if I were "normal," it wouldn't be a problem. There wouldn't be a problem to hide. PLEASE tell me this is a "BuyerBeware is a hopeless person and we have to be nice to her even though we hate her" thing. Because if this is how you people treat each other too, IT IS TIME FOR THE APOCALYPSE.
Sincerely,
Retardo
Dear Grandma,
Thank you for trying to make sure I had high self-esteem. I know you meant well. It must have been hard to think of 100 ways to compliment an Aspie kid every single day. Thank you for the effort.
NOW PLEASE STOP DOING IT TO MY KIDS. PLEASE STOP ENCOURAGING ME TO DO IT TO MY KIDS. I would like my children to be aware of their failings, and to be able to recognize a genuine compliment when they actually manage to earn one.
Sincerely,
Precious Darling Wonderful Sweetheart
PS-- I love you. But you're passive-aggressive as all hell and crazier than a shithouse rat. I'm pretty sure that you got that way from decade after decade after decade of denying the facts of the situation in front of you. Also, I'm sending you some information on Cassandra Syndrome. I think it describes you to a T.
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"Alas, our dried voices when we whisper together are quiet and meaningless, as wind in dry grass, or rats' feet over broken glass in our dry cellar." --TS Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
Dear World and Life,
Stop being such a b***h already.
Although, BB before me made me laugh with her letter to grandma. I am still giggling but I am no less mad at you.
Dear My Cats
For the love of chicken, give me a break once in a while. I cannot cope with the stress, one of you is always either ill or injured or missing or trying to sit on me or my computer or sleeping somewhere so I can't sit there/hoover/walk by without being mewed at and chased for food even though there are SIX different dry foods down and you've all just been given a pouch each.
Dear Big Cheeses At Work
Stop being such ego maniacs and try and do something altruistic rather than self serving once in a while.
..tbcnt
Dear Employers,
Please, at least write SOMETHING back to me, even if it's just a stock letter saying something like "We are sorry, but your application for the post of *insert job here* was unsuccessful". I can understand why you don't reply to unsuccessful candidates, given that there are so many people applying for the very few jobs in this area, but being ignored like this really gets on my tits. It's just plain rude.
Dear Felix,
Can you please stop shredding my leg every time you want something? Yes, your two previous owners were both little old ladies, and I frequently listen to music on my headphones, but that doesn't mean you can't learn to grab my attention in a less harmful manner.
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I'm not like them, but I can pretend
The sun is gone, but I have a light
The day is done, but I'm having fun
I think I'm dumb, or maybe just happy...
Dear Co-Workers,
CAN YOU JUST LET ME DO MY JOB AND SHUT UP ALREADY? Always gotta pick out one thing, just because I'm smart, and I work smarter, not harder, who's been the fastest stocker there the last TWO truck nights? Hm? NOT YOU! Leave me the "heck" alone, already, stop making me depressed at work, and about to cry my eyes out, and just let me zone out and DO WORK. If you'd shut up maybe I'd get faster instead of slower, which is going to happen again if you don't shut it! And then I'll be fired, because of you guys picking on me, constantly, thanks.
Dear Boss,
Can you just pick whether you're happy or mad? Quit being a psychopathic b***h one night and the best person in the world the next night. Pick one! And preferably the first one because you're AWESOME when you're being a good person, even when I have bad nights I don't take it out on you, do I? Except that one night you yelled at me and I yelled right back at you. I'm so sick of you being two-faced, it seems like you have one face to put on in front of me and then another to put on in front of everybody else some nights, like tonight. And also, if I'm mad and I rant about you and your husband finds out from some other source, I don't care. That's what happens when I get mad at someone, I rant, that keeps me from punching them (or you) and doing a tap dance on their (or your) face.
Dear JD,
I love you, but I can't throw away "The mask". It's not something I hide behind, It's my control over myself and my unstable emotions. I can't be confident without it. Just because you say "be social you'll be fine" doesn't stop me from wanting to go in the bathroom and lock the door, or just because you ask to actually answer texts instead of acknowledging your existence and texting back later, doesn't mean I'll stick with it, or WANT to do it. You need to see that not everything can be made better. It's not happy rainbows and sunshine, but i'm not trying to make it sound worse than it is. Sometimes things are bad, that it can only be maintained not changed. That even then I will fall. When having a mental break down, the correct answer is not to hang up and remind me later that cussing makes God sad and babies cry. Thanks for making me feel like s**t right when I'm feeling better. By the way, you're a hypocrite. YOU HAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE OR WE'LL BE POOR FOREVERRRRRRRRRR, Mr. Dropped-out-of-college-because-you-bombed-one-class. (I love you so much though) YOU HAVE TO CALL ME EVERYDAY AND ALWAYS ANSWER AND TALK FOREVER, when you don't call me all day. I ALWAYS LOVE AND ACCEPT YOU AND YOU CAN ALWAYS TALK TO MEEEEE, Shuts me down and blames my emotions on PMS. Oh, and do you actually believe what I've told you about the people who ruined my life? You sure don't about Sara. Rach can tell you how bad everything was. Do you think I actually made that stuff up? Because I could have starved to death because of one stupid hateful little girl, and it seems like you think I'm exaggerating. The things you do and say sometimes HURT.
I love you, and I never want to loose you. With you I can breathe and ignore a world of judgement and hate. I try so hard to be patient with you, and I know you try to understand. While I'm not one of those "I can do everything if I just believe" people, you are my ray of sunshine that brightens my day, no matter how much I complain and whine. I'll never be able to truly express how strong my love for you is. No matter how much I can say about the things I don't like, what I love about you will always outweigh the things I don't. You've saved my life. I love you. I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you, knowing that I love my best friend.
Always and Eternally,
Your love and future wifey
tbc
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"I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know." - Emily Dickinson
Dear everyone not included in my friends and family,
You suck.
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"Crazy" AKA "ret*d" AKA "Stupid" AKA "Cry baby" AKA "Idiot" AKA "Emo Fucktardo" AKA "b***h" AKA "Master of the Insane Asylum" AKA "Paranoid f****r" AKA "Wimp" AKA "Slut" AKA "slu*ty McTits" AKA Depressing piece of s**t" AKA "Queen of the ret*ds" AKA "That weird depressed girl with the bible that's not a bible" (Devotional book) AKA "Cutter" AKA "You" As in "What the f**k is wrong with you"
Dear My dad's friends on SWTOR,
No, me and my sister are questing just fine by ourselves.
Yes, we like the game.
We're both Jedi Knights.
Yes, we finish each others sentences.
Yes, we listen to bad ass music instead of the soundtrack, get over it.
No, we're not twins, our characters looking alike was a coincidence.
Yes, we're sisters.
Yes, we argue about which direction to go in, that's how we joke, take the stick out of your ass.
Yes, I know I tank like nuts, it's a habit, don't tell me the importance of healing and strategy in RPGS. This isn't my first one, it's just a habit. May I remind you of that stick?
No, I'm not in school.
Yes, she is in school.
I'm older.
Yes, he's really our dad. That, or we were taken away at birth and lead to believe such an atrocity.
Yes, we sing random songs.
No, I don't care if you call me by my screen or real name, It doesn't matter, I answer to both.
No, I don't care If i can do a side quest five feet way, I'm main questing on the other side of the f*****g map.
~Amar'ra
Dear Mom away from Mom,
I love you, I'm just to scared of rejection to tell you that I'm f****d up. I've been thrown away my entire life and I don't want to ruin my chances with the one family I feel normal with. I just want to be normal Mami.
Love
The girl you consider your own
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"I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know." - Emily Dickinson