can never vent my frustrations

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...so frustrating whenever I try to say whats on my mind and what Im ticked off about nobody ever understands. Its like I can't properly convey whats bothering me so nobody cares.

Like one of my friends just right now took back his bet for money which I one. Makes promises and never follows through with them. I try to explain this to him and he doesn't
understand. When I was trying to talk about not argue and through a fit he didnt understand and couldnt really get the point across I wanted to...

so I just left his house and probably not going to talk to him for a while. annoying putting up with his BS even if it was unintended.

but this same thing applies to talking to my parents......I try to tell them how im feeling and they just dont understand f****n morons

I hear ya.
I'm always the bad guy. I'm always the one who "over reacts" or "blows things out of proportion". When I unintentionally tick someone off and then try to apologize it all backfires and somehow makes it worse. NOTHING comes out right. Although sometimes it SEEMED to have come out pretty much the way I wanted it to but I still manage to fail. I'm afraid to even freaking feel emotions anymore because I don't get taken seriously. Doesn't matter if it's about something that upset me or angered me or even just made me a little happy for once. There's always someone there sh*****g on my emotions.



My husband at the moment is getting the silent treatment and I REFUSE to back down because I was verbalizing my issues with him about something and he ended up blowing up at me. Why? who knows? This is mere hours after telling him some of my reasons why I think I may have aspergers and he tells me "Don't worry about it. We'll work it out together." then blows at me for something I normally do. Can't friggin win for nothing.


Sorry. Apparently I needed to vent. LOL Really just wanted you to know that you're not alone in that area.

I do nothing but vent my frustrations. It's the only time anyone seems to even know I exists.

I sympathize completely. There's no real solution though. The only way around I've found is to ignore those who chose not to understand.

I concur. People like that are not worth the trouble--they will NEVER "get it."

Back when I was expressing my feelings, my parents always got mad at me. But my husband says I don't express myself well and I wonder if this is the cause?

I also hate it when I try and explain things, people never want to listen. I have even been accused of gossip when I was venting about other people. What's worse is when you had a conflict with someone or an issue and you are talking about it and that person somehow over hears you or finds out about it and they play the fricken victim by saying you talked bad about them and are pissed about it. Same as when they say you gossiped about them. Then it pisses me off when people say you shouldn't do it.
It's like they want to control you and control what you can talk and vent about and they are like "ha ha you can't talk about your issues you have with me because I don't like to be talked about." So all I can do it hate on them about it and say how stupid they are and not be nice to them after that.

I think I understand what you mean completely. Whenever there is something that frustrates me, I tend to curse under my breath, and cannot figure out how to speak up and vent all that.

My parents use3d to get angry at me, whenever I needed to vent, about something. They'd tell me that I had no right to be angry, and that my problems, were all in my head. My younger sister was always allowed to vent. I know the reason why. I was the tomboy with the accent, and my little sister was, the young white girl, without the accent. I guess, that the more you fit into a neat, little package, the more you get away with.

And if you get angry at them and ignore them for while? Maybe they'll see that way that it really bothers/frustrates you and think about what they did. They seem to lack some empathy; they could try to imagine what it's like to be in your position, viewing a discussion from your side and perspective, which could make it all a lot easier. If no one choses to listen forcing them to (by ignoring them) might be a way to get them to listen in the future. They should take you more seriously; they don't really listen to your legit complaints when they should.

Or try doing the same to them.

Someone on a listserv I'm on posted a poem about this "I am... You are...", by a therapist about a severely developmentally disabled man.

I forget the exact statements but it would have gone something like this.

I am staff. You are a patient.

I am justifiably angry. You are acting out.

I am venting. You are gossiping.

I am stating my needs. You are making demands.

You get the idea.

I would LOVE to see the rest of this poem if you could find it Krill

I tried that and it doesn't work. People just either ignore it or they really are that clueless. Then after a while it gets tiring to hold a grudge. In high school my old special ed teacher found out I was still mad at her and she thought it was cute because I was avoiding her and her classroom. My shrink said it was because she wasn't taking me seriously. I kept it going for almost a whole school year and it was tiring holding that grudge.

I don't think I get it.

^ Sounds like a self-centered holier-than-thou bully

Yes, when I try to talk to my parents, well, supposedly they're going to listen to me, however, they always interrupt me and say I'm stupid, and then, what's more is I'm so slow! I just can't listen, think, and talk fast enough to make a come back when they're yelling at me. All I can do is, stand there, and take it until I can find the right opportunity to go. And hope they don't follow me and I get into more trouble.

I held a grudge in the sixth grade that DID work--the girl apologized to me a year later. However, I now realize that I didn't have as much invested in that "friendship" as I thought I did, so it wasn't a huge deal. I did find out that holding grudges is pretty exhausting, though.

Also, when it's your own family, sometimes they just don't let up. Attempting to ignore them just makes them get...what's the word..."louder?" They won't let up until you respond somehow (like persian85033 said).

krill, I'm going to try to find the rest of that poem. I haven't been to a therapist in a long time (not since I was about 10) but it wouldn't surprise me if many are like that.