Pushed around?

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Are AS people more resentful than others at being forced to do something or to conform to what is considered normal?

For me, I was that way only because I was shy and let it be done to me. And I resented that.

That was one of the major reasons I failed everything in school, I hated being told to do work.

I really don't like it when people expect me to do stuff just because everybody else is doing it too (ie., peer pressure).

I don't like being pulled away from my interests, but I'm more used to it these days. You can't always have what you want...

For me, authority figures induce anxiety and resentment. I don't like being told what to do. But I often get pushed around anyway because I don't seem to have the social skills to stand up for myself.

I don't think so necessarily. After all forcing us to be normal, is like taking a normal guy and telling him he has to wear a dress every day. I think if you did that to an NT he'd be just as resentful as the aspie man who's being told he can't wear the dress

My shyness meant that I spent much of my early life conforming and finding it an extremely uncomfortable fit. When I started to find my own voice, it came out as a roar, which wasn't appreciated by those who knew me. They were used to a mouse and mice don't roar! I like to think that I'm now midway between mouse and lion and in the process of finding the right skin size.

Pushed around so much that I sould have had a grab handle fitted at one point. Don't like conforming or accepting wrong as right when others say let it be. No! Another shy one, here, it has taken me a long time to be able to speak up and appreciate it. Now I can't get the image of a lion-mouse hybrid wearing a dress.