I really hate my parents.

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it normal for NT's to start to hate their parents before adulthood - while they are still teenages.

It's part of the stereotype of teenage behaviour.

I would so like to beleive that not al NT's are like that...but i'm finding it hard...

Move out of (parental) home, people. If it's not possible now, work towards it.

Wait, so you are blaming your own learning difficulties and the lecturers on some of your academic shortcomings? (at least thats what I'm hearing from reading the post).

I think it's a normal thing for NTs, but it happens in their teenage years, whereas for us it is more varied. My NT brother reached a point in his life where he became "rebellious" at around 16. He grew his hair long, renounced his Christianity and became and athiest, and started spending much less time with the family. He's 18 now, and this trend hasn't changed. If anything, it's been getting worse. He used to spend all day in his room talking with his friends, but leave to eat where I would talk with him in the kitchen. Now, he'll head to the kitchen, grab some food and take it to his room. He's expressed severe dislike of both our parents and the way they treat him, but he puts up with it because he knows he's not ready to leave the house yet.

I, on the other hand, am 20, and am only now starting to reach the same stage. It's much more gradual and less severe with me, but it is there. I'm just a generic thiest at this point and am no longer Christian either. I wear pants with chains on them, in spite of my Dad's open disapproval. I've also come to realize that my parents aren't these perfect gods who look after me, but real people with good points and faults.

My Mom is overall very skilled as a parent, but she can be extremely cold to me when I'm feeling emotional and need comfort. She also tends to try and do too much to help me in spite of my protests, then gets really stressed out trying to live both my life and hers, making me feel guilty. I've been trying to do more of the housework, but my Mom refuses to tell me what needs to be done. She also tends to be way too overprotective of me and my AS. When I expressed my desire to get a crap job at a place like McDonald's once I learned to drive, my Mom told me not to try it because I'd fail because of my AS.

My Dad legitimately wants to be a good father, but hasn't the faintest idea as to how to accomplish this. He makes so many mistakes it would be impossible to mention them all, but they include calling me spoiled for declining expensive things he personally likes (like watching a ballet), giving me my last spanking at 15, loudly threatening to spank me in a public place at 19, not trusting me at all, talking bad about me to my brother when I'm not around, talking bad about my brother to me when he's not around, etc. He's actually a very reasonable guy, and if I told him about these things, he'd probably do something to correct them. The problem is that he has such a bad temper and likes to yell, and this makes me afraid to confront him about any of it.

I think the problems I'm noticing will eventually prompt me to leave the house, and I think that is natural. At that point, hard as it is for me to envision now, I will probably despise both of my parents. Once I've lived without them for a while, if my concerns were legitimate, I will still hate them and refuse to talk to them, but far more likely, I'll end up becoming closer to them than I've ever been before.

I will move far away from my family when the time comes
there is a lot of things I need to do alone before I can really have a good relationship with them

I totally understand what you mean.

I agree with all of the others who say that what you are experiencing is typical teenage rebellion, only you are experiencing it in your 20's. It's not a bad sign that you think your parents don't understand you, etc... That's the normal process towards independent living. As long as you feel dependent on them, you will resent them in some way.

About college degrees, they are just pieces of paper. But, they are necessary pieces of paper. Everyone, even NTs, have to put up with bunches of bullcrap in the pursuit of that piece of paper. You will make your life much easier if you follow through and get the paper and settle into a career.

One of the most successful people I know is learning disabled. I really do not know how she did it. She did not get special ed services or supports in college either.

Depends if the course he is doing is the right one. Having a career isn't the be all and end all of life but it is certainly good to have a job one enjoys or at least tolerates. It annoys me a lot when parents are so critical and pushy and don't give kids the credit for doing their best, even if it isn't getting top marks.

I see both my father's Asperger's autism and my mother's OCD in me. Although, at 51, I admittedly have some resentments against my parents for how they treated me, I was certainly not the easiest child to raise. Therefore, I try to put it all into perspective. Nothing in life is perfect.

Could I ever hate my parents? No. That would be unthinkable. Does my mother constantly belittle me? No. My father likes having me home. I believe they have done the best job of parenting that they know how. But I am an adult and like any adult, I want to be on my own.

After my last job in Georgia did not work out, I had no choice but to come back to Rhode Island. But living in your parent's house as an adult is not the same as living independently as an adult. After I gain the skills and experience I need, I will start looking out of state.