Thinking you are a burden on your loved ones

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Do you feel like you are a burden because of your mental disorder(s)?
Absolutely 26%  26%  [ 9 ]
Often 32%  32%  [ 11 ]
Sometimes 15%  15%  [ 5 ]
Rarely 9%  9%  [ 3 ]
HELL NO!! !! ! 18%  18%  [ 6 ]
I don't know 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 34

ksuther09
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11 Aug 2010, 5:12 pm

I felt like a burden because of some medical things that were unrelated to my autism spectrum disorder. At times I was told, "If I didn't have to pray for ___ for you, I would have a house."

When I was small, my fixations really gave my mom problems. She didn't know why I got stuck on 1 topic. She would finally yell at me & I would go through my room & destroy stories/drawings of said fixation, but I would repeat the cycle over and over again. It wasn't until I was 12 when my aunt helped me channel my fixations into something useful or help me see them as staging grounds for learning / talking about other things. I think just hearing over & over ,"Why can't you ___ like normal kids." hurt a great deal.

What's helping me process all this is this blog here. The healing process from being told you're a burden does take a while, but finding & knowing other people that love you no matte what is the most powerful agent of healing from this.