does it sometimes feel like symptoms are exploits?

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Alot of weaknesses are shown with symptoms.

Do you ever feel like mean people figure out your label or if you tell them then they use you weaknesses against you?

Yeah. I'm watching my ex husband's lawyer, my ex husband, my son's lawyer, the judge and everyone else use it against both of us. It sucks. I can't figure out how to make it stop. They use it and they twist it and they make it the worst thing in the universe. I'm starting to wish I was a headbanger curled up in the corner and drooling, because that's the way they make us sound by the time they're done with us. I feel like sitting in the corner and drooling and banging my head by the time they're done with us in court.

That's awful.

I hope it does work out for you but it does seem that the justice system rewards the richest before they reward those who are in the right.

Sorry you are going through a difficult time. It reminds me so much of someone I knew who went through injustices in the justice system. Wish there was a way I could help.

People exploit me all the time, and I even try to hide whatever cues I'm giving off to indicate I'm so easily deceived. Wearing a suit and tie, a good pair of slacks with a polo-shirt, or similar formal attire helps. At least at that point, people see my formal behavior as part of my personality (which it is), rather than being some drooling, mindless ret*d.

However, hobos still regularly try to take my money, co-workers and customers try their best to tease me, haggle with me, or break down my resistance to an idea I know is wrong. On several occasions just in the last week, I've had customers try and pull fast ones, using the commercial price discounts with their employers for personal purchases, having me bend over backwards, destroying the company trucks for hauling away their garbage, etc.

I know that our tendency to believe rules are solid barriers that should never be broken is a handicap, which falls under the same misinterpretation of giving someone literally what they ask for, and not trying to interact with them to figure out the actual problem at hand. However, while everyone else learns the "acceptable" behavior of throwing the rules out the window, and acting like a bunch of a******, what is so deplorable about proper, respectable behavior? Is it really that disgusting to an NT for a person to not want to smoke dope, get drunk underage, or go smash mailboxes with baseball bats?

The problem I see is that the NTs attack those who aren't willing to break the rules because, in their cynical view, those who follow the rules are losers. They cannot function in a world without rules. That is hardly the case, even for Aspies, as long as one has the ability to be self-reliant. However, that stereotype still exists, and unless you act like you don't care about hurting another human being, you don't get the respect you deserve.

It's making me wonder if joining a National Socialist party would really be a bad thing. Then again, I'd just be stuck with more delinquents who want to stand out and look bada**, instead of truly, intellectually understanding the rhetoric they spout out their mouths. It's the same with democrats and conservatives. With the NTs, they're either mindless, naked hippies, or Christians, and anyone who puts thought into being a mix of traits rather than going along with a clique is seen as abnormal.

Does anyone know if there is a treatment for these symptoms (besides French-kissing a 12 gauge)?