Do you wish people were more understanding of your issues?

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Atleast once a week I'm being yelled at by my mom change this/that etc. It's getting old!! ! I wish she and the family could just accept me for the way I am. How do you feel about this?

I once thought this.

I realised it is expecting too much from humans,
dumb humans, I thought, what is wrong with them?

I still don't know.

Today, I handle it the only way I can.

Alot of them have a problem with the
way I handle it, but I don't have a problem
with the way I handle it, but that is not my
fault and I take no blame for it because I
did not ask to be born the way I am.

It isn't your fault you were born a certain way.

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I remember living with my parents. I was chomping at the bit to get away from them and they were just as determined to have me under their roof until I was 18 and legally responsible. I took what I could, and rebelled against what I couldn't take until I was magically one month before my 18th birthday and then they put me in a mental institution.

it put me back 10 months before I finally worked my way out of the system and I ran away from Kansas to this little festival in upstate New York that turned out to be WOODSTOCK!!

so keep marking off the days on the calendar, zeldapsychology. We can endure and finally get what we want. And I wouldn't trade being free of it for anything!

Merle

only on WP.

I wish for the samething.... I also feel just like you that nobody understands what im going through... My family knows ive got autism but I find it hard to express my feelings towards them and they don't have a clue why i'm finding it difficult or play up sometimes?

Most people don't understand what i have to go through to be where i'am now and that truely upsets me... Because I took a long path and its been like a bumpy rollercoaster.

But don't give up hopes, someday, there is gonna hopefully be someone that will understand

Age of flight topic

My oldest daughter left home at 17 to live with sugar grandma. I left the same woman at 17.

My youngest wants to live with her father, but not in the back of a van. Sometimes I wish Grandma was still around.

When you live with someone else, there are rules, just as there are at WP. Even on your own there are rules.

Thanks guys. BTW I'm 23 and haven't really looked for anywhere to live yet. If it was up to ME! I'd get a pell grant (they are upwards of $5000 now adays) and go back to College to a dorm! But Aid is based on parents and mine make too much money. But dorm+classes is about $6000 maybe a little less I could swing that if I got the $5000 that is. But I TRIED applying for a Bachelor and they said I should get my AA first I WANT TO JUMP straight to BACHELOR DEGREE!! !! !

Absolutely, I wish people would understand that there are some deficiencies in my social skills and some of that can't be helped. It doesn't mean I don't try to interact with people, it's just that I don't know how to do so at times, so it can be misunderstood as me not wanting to talk to people!

In the UK, if you are over 25, your parents' income is not taken into account when you apply for financial aid. If that's how it works in the US, you only have a couple more years to wait .

Now sure if that applies to US but SWEET!! !!

Me, too. I get yelled at for the same things. They just don't understand. They don't even try. I try to explain, and get them to become informed, but...I guess it's just much easier for them to just think I'm a ret*d.

no i am glad that they keep clear of them and let me sort them out myself

Pretty much this ^

I do sometimes wish people were more understanding of my issues, but I generally find that when people try to be understanding they make matters worse.

Case in point: I get stressed out at work, my manager picks up on this and makes me take time off from work (presumably for NTs this helps?) But now I'm even more stressed because I'm sitting here thinking of all the things that should be getting done at the office which won't get done because I'm not there.

So, would be nice if NTs were understanding but only if they could actually correctly handle the issue.

Oh yes! Especially my sensory issues. I'm over-sensitive to shouting, and not many people even notice how much stress it causes me when I hear people shout and yell!

I understand that you feel strongly about that, but you might want to reconsider. Have you looked into possible community college programs in your area? People start out at 2-year colleges all the time, and frankly, as far as I can tell, they get the same quality education. Your first two years at a university (education-wise) are probably not going to be any different than they would be if you were at a community college. Except in community college, you are spending a lot less money. You won't be taking fancy, high-level classes in the first two years anyway.

Once you've gotten a two-year degree, that's something you can stick on a resume, which looks good. And then you can get into a university much easier, with that little bit of life-experience behind you.


Just a thought.