Annoyed with Parents and people that I can't relate to.

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For some reason, I can't communicate right with my parents. I always find myself thinking negitive towards them for no logical reason. I don't really have anyone close to relate my personality and my interests too, and I find myself kind of angry, annoyed and bord towards them and people I know.
I've been trying to work on it not showing for awhille now. It's working but somethings that I say don't sound right for normal conversation with my parents. They're more like "Do I need to do anything else" or "Is there anything else that you wanted to talk to me about". I seem to be extremely annoyed by being questioned by them. Normal questions like "What did you by at the book store" or "I noticed that you forgot to take out the garbage, you got to remember better"

Why am I so annoyed by questions and remembering importaint stuff? I can't talk to my parents about my stress, because they don't understand Asperger thinking and they feel like they're steping on egg shells if they try to understand.

I want to mature thinking whise.

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Thank You and have a nice day,

_Eric

I don't know how old yo are but these sound like could also be related to normal teenage-parent relationship

I understand exactly how you feel. My parents have been trying to push me for years to open up to them, and I just can't. I just do not feel a relationship with them. I kept blaming myself and wondering why I felt so messed up all the time, why life was so stressful. They just kept trying to force a relationship on me, but I simply did not feel love for them. I have decided I cannot live in the area near them any longer. I am home with them now for the summer and am going crazy. I only feel autistic when I am around them. When I am with other people I feel normal. I will keep in touch but I do not owe them my sanity.

Its wierd, I feel more open to non-family than to my own family. You would think it would be the opposite. My parents always told me, if you can't open up to your own family, how will you open up to strangers? I would tell them I find it easier to talk to strangers or new friends than to them. They didn't beleive me. But its true.

And yes, I get annoyed often when people ask me where I have been. I don't know why. It almost is as if they are asking a super personal question. Even though I know its not.

WOW, I don't believe this! You totally read me like a book. That's exactly how I feel.
Anyway I'm 19 and I'm learning some life skills to life on my own. For some reason, I can't wait.
Thanks for relating to me.

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Thank You and have a nice day,

_Eric

The negative thoughts may be because they're getting on your last nerve. I notice when someone tries to start a conversation with me and I'm not interested, they end up asking question after question until I cut them off and walk away. They won't take no for an answer. You may need some space between you and your parents to break the habit of them micro-questioning you. If you're living with them, they have at least a legal right to do so. Once you move out, you can cut a phone call short or put off a social engagement. Meanwhile, they'll find something else to do with their time. Then you can retry an adult relationship based on mutual respect.

Ya man, its normal for anybody thats a teenager, especally for us aspies.

I never could open up to my parents eather, it was so hard, but since i moved out a few years ago i find them much easier to get along with, and ive opened up alot more also...

I have a similiar issue. I've had for the most part a good relationship with my mom, but I've never been able to relate to her. It's only been recently that I was able to find out anything really significant about who my dad is, and she would never tell me anything about her because she said I'd blab it to other people. The only way I ever learned anything like that was by hammering away about it, and it feels like that's the only way to get what I want.

I keep saying negative things when I'm around her, and it makes me feel really bad, but it seems like she'll avoid discussing anything the way I want and it just turns into a vicious cycle. I'm 21 and I'm a writer who is published on the internet and in print but I don't have enough money to get out of my mom's basement. I'm stuck in the same place everything bad ever happened to me and I just want to get some distance. I don't feel productive and I feel like a loser. While I'm stuck at home, other people I know are travelling to New York, Israel and other places.

Not only that I have a difficulty in establishing real friendships w/ people but also a difficulty in intimately bonding to many of my family members and others. The only person (in the family and society) that I can easily relate to is my mom. My mom and I enjoy talking, listening, and joking around all the time. She has a great, outgoing, humorous personality.

My mom would always encourage me to relate to my father but I still didn't know how to do it properly. Many of my cousins or family members are busy people and I also have trouble relating to them. I just don't have any of the skills to intimately bond to many people of the family and society and I don't feel great about this at all.

omg! wow! i cant believe there are people who feel the same way i do! i'm crying tears of joy right now! (seriously). i've always thought i'm a terrible son because i don't feel buddy-buddy to my parents but i guess i'm not the only one! yea, i dont know why we feel the way we do towards our parents. i think i'm afraid they would judge me / scold me if i reveal to them about something. like one day when i got a haircut, they would say, "that haircut is bad. dont go there again". this is the kind of talk that i hate. they make me feel like i'm not capable of choosing a good hairdresser.

some people say they feel better when they live away from their parents but not for me. when i was in college, i lived away from them yet i felt the same way. i never called them. it's always them who called me. when it's their birthday, i would give them birthday cards but i feel empty. same thing when it's my birthday and they give me a present. i feel empty. i never talk to them whenever i have problems. sometimes i feel bad because i do want to love them and make them happy but i can't.

Is this whole child-parent intimacy problem supposed to be another symptom of AS????

You know. To me it's like, if I can't find anyone else aroundthat has a playful inner child heart within them like me. I feel trapped! And I'm struggling to get out. I want to shout and get out but I can't because the other person would think that I'm crazy. I feel that there isn't alot of people who have a Inner Child left and it make me angry at the human sociaty. No wonder I don't want to communicate with alot of people.

_Eric

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Thank You and have a nice day,

_Eric

I have recently realized and come to a certain amount of peace about my inability to relate to many people. This summer I was working at a camp and I met some people that were just like me--a certain girl in fact, and we sort of dated. What I have realized through the experience is that I CAN relate to people--like me--and that they do exist. I made the mistake of feeling guilty and blaming myself for not relating to most people around me, even though I have at times been fairly popular, I feel this disconnect with those that want to be my friend. Now I realize it is not me, but both me AND them. There are others like us. People with the same intellect and sense of humor and view of the world, even people that are not aspies. So don't feel bad. You simply have to get into a social group in which those people are, instead of always feeling bad about yourself. It's just as much the other people, and in fact maybe more so, than us. At least for the positive aspects of aspergers, we are, not to sound arrogant but to speak in truth, perhaps above most NT's.