How would you explain your symptoms to a psychiatrist?

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I just meant that as an example, but use it if it helps.

I never realized this but you're right, it isn't obvious to me how to print, other than like you're saying, select all, copy, and paste into a document to print. Does anyone know how to print?

Good luck Jeni!! When is your appointment?

That's irony for you. Steal a persons idea, rudely have side conversations about it excluding the person who gave it, then ask questions the person who came up with the idea could have easily answered had they not been excluded. Live and learn I guess.

"I always miss subtle queues like when a person is not interested in what I am saying. A person assures me that he or she isn't really bored, and I end up just taking them literally. I don't realize I've made a mistake until that person is already mad at me or ignoring me."

"I have trouble telling the difference between a real smile and the smile of someone who is making fun of me, and I get hurt a lot."

"I seem to stay confused about what people expect of me. I'm a nice person, and I really try to make people happy with me. I end up either offending people, being a doormat, or both. I'm not a naturally unhappy person, but I don't like not being able to show people that I care."

"I sometimes get into situations in which I am overwhelmed and frustrated, and the way I show this can upset or scare other people. I'm not a hateful or disrespectful person, but I look like one when these happen."

"I have trouble making friends, and I have a history of people that I thought were my friends just using me."

"I try to talk to people of the opposite sex, and what I think are nice things to say get taken out of their intended context. It's the same stuff I hear other people saying, but for some reason, it's 'creepy' when I say it. Some people try to tell me it's about the 'timing,' but it's like writing with my left-hand: people who do it naturally seem to think it's easy, but it's always awkward."

"I tried to make what I thought was an innocent joke to a person who worked at a small store while I was looking around, and the cops were there as soon as I walked out. I still don't understand why the remark was taken as alarming."

"Some people have explained to me that the stuff I like talking about are just things that nobody is interested in. Well, I'm interested in those things. The things that other people talk about don't even make sense to me. It just comes across as mumbling...like it's in another language or something."

"Someone once told me I had a 'dry sense of humor.' I asked 'what is a wet sense of humor?' and that person thought it was a joke. I still don't know why it was funny."

All of these apply to me. Just say, with complete and total honesty, what applies to you.

Jen, I'm a little confused, given the state that your family is in and how they are reacting, are there any adults who are helping you navigate all this stuff with the doctors? I'm getting really very concerned. I just don't know what I can do, even if I tried to help, I have no standing to do so.