under the thumb of emotional blackmail. anyone feel this way

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Basically i get a lot of this from my family. I'm not saying they're all bad but still....

i'm always being made to feel ungrateful when i do anything that doesn't comply with their way of doing things. I now firmly believe this may be a major contributing factor in my low self esteem.

i just feel that people are conspiring to "keep me weak": i hope this may be clear enough. despite my diagnosis three years ago having its practicalities because of the financial support,the flip side is that i'm now being constantly persuaded to "know my limits" and "not get too stressed out".

what really gets to me is i'm not accused of being ungrateful for money, help or support. i'm accused of not valuing someone's opinion... and i'm not talking politics here, i'm literally talking about disagreements about how my day is going pan out.

The irony is that despite being told i can't do anything for myself (and no, my official AS label hasn't helped), I am expected to be affluent in the art of having petty arguments all day long.

anyone feel like this. not asking for support but talking about it will help me

This sounds like the ages-old sentence: "I am older so I know better."
A mental diagnose makes alot of parents extremely protective of their children to the point they dictate their entire lives to an extreme and don't let them graduately be more self-sufficient and thus leaves them dependent in the future.

I don't know the others sides to this story and how old you are but I suggest you have a talk with your parents about 'letting go'.