Narcissistic abuse when you're on the spectrum

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I just read some articles about this and my uncle fits the characteristics of a Narcissist to a tee...

Like my aunt/his sister told me "Why do you let my brother abuse you?"

Like my uncle got me a "Christmas Present..." A state quarter collection missing most of the Quarters...
Ummm... Okay? Laundry money??!

$5 worth of quarters
Yeah, there is a Washing Machine/Dryer in my building but it takes quarters... Ty unc, my clothes are going to be soooo clean

I can't be certain, but I think my ex-fiancé is a narcissist. I am certain she was abusive.

She has cerebral palsy so most people wouldn't expect it from her. But she did seem to have a way of dominating the thoughts and opinions of those around her to some degree.

The abuse was subtle so it was extremely difficult to recognize at the time. I only realized what was actually going on in hindsight years later. Some behaviors stood out but I didn't put two and two together until much later.

I didn't know what love bombing was at the time, but after I learned about it became clear that she was using it on me.

One day when I got her from her class to walk her back to her dorm, she told me that the other girls in her said that I'm ugly and gross and questioned why she would date me.

She often threatened to leave me if she didn't get her way on something.

She gaslighted me a lot. We were riding in a friend's car and got in a wreck, and some relatives of her happened to be close by. She told me later that her relative heard me lie to a police officer about my age, and said that another relative claimed to have known me in high school and said I did drugs. Many other times she told me that her parents and other people in her family disliked me. However, I had never directly observed any signs of hostility from any of them. At the time it did not even occur to me to consider that she may be lying about all of this.

She isolated me and controlled who I spent time around. Again this started out subtle and I did not notice it at the time. But as time went by, I became more and more withdrawn until my entire social circle consisted exclusively of her and her group of friends. I can distinctly remember a few times when she gave me some reason why she doesn't want me to associate with a certain person. Once she claimed a friend of mine was stalking her, for example.

I'm not sure when this started, but I eventually reached a point where I felt like I had to walk on egg shells. I felt like I couldn't do anything or go anywhere without her permission. I often found myself avoiding buying things I wanted or hiding them from her for fear of the repercussions.

But of course its impossible to get anyone to believe that a big strong man like myself was bullied and abused by a poor little disabled girl.

Hi @Shakti
I know this is an old thread, I came across it during a search as I am new to the forum so have been mooching around and searching.
I had sort of been on the receiving group end of narcissistic abuse, with my family, I believed my Dad had NPD.
I am theorising that any autistic/aspergers child or NT for that matter, who engaged in creative activity in childhood during the abuse would be able to process it in a healthy way and grow up intact.
Any spectrum or nt child who didn't engage in creative activity while growing up in such a toxic environment would be scarred and need medical or therapeutic intervention.

I get bullied easily, and frustratingly, can only think of responses that would shut the bully up, days, weeks, months after the event, and this has even been commented on by the bullies.

Reacting is what they want, when a calm witty retort is the right thing to do, one that puts them in their place and shows them we cannot be bullied. I've been groped, sexually harassed and fondled, but the fondling was done when I was asleep on drugs, not that it excuses it. We live in an unfair world and it takes a resilient person to bring a predator to justice, however predators do get away with things and it is not our fault.
As for the man who fondled me, I waited until there was a group of our friends and I told them all about what he did, while in his presence, he still groped me so I slapped him.

I'm not a parent but the situation you describe must be awful. I am about to read the rest of the thread hoping that a positive outcome happened.....