How to deal with uncaring parents

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Ok every time I'm upset my parents refuse to help me and call me a p**** or selfish and don't care for there feeling. Because I have PDD-NOS socializing with people is near impossible So i try to go to my parents for support but always get mad at me and don't listen to me. Why are they doing this and can someone on this forum please help me too address this.

It's a complicated question that is almost impossible to answer without first knowing your parents. It could be anything from selfishness on their part to frustration stemming from a lack of understanding. Plus, you could also be misreading the situation in some ways as well, further adding to the interpersonal static between you.

Unfortunately, you can't change them. They made their choices, and if they choose not to support you, that says much more about them than it will ever say about you.

I've had to make the decision to distance myself from my mother because she doesn't support me--she flips from believing I am incompetent and shouldn't be living on my own, to believing that I can't possibly be autistic and must simply be lazy and overdramatic. Either way doesn't help me; either way doesn't let me be myself. If she doesn't accept me as a disabled adult woman who makes her own decisions, I can't keep chasing after her to try to get her to give me the validation I wish she'd give me.

It's tough to make it on your own and I think you'll probably always care what your parents think of you. Still... at some point, you have to decide, hey, I'm my own person--my parents are fallible people, and they can be wrong and they can believe things about me that aren't true. You have to decide to do what's right for you regardless of what your parents think of you.

Cmurray93, do you have siblings and, if yes, are they treated the same way? And when they ask your parents for help and support, do they ask in a manner differently from yours?

Me? Well, one of my sisters is still living at home; the other left home at sixteen and moved to China at twenty-two (she's back now but still three states away from Mom). Even my littlest sister, who's in her late teens now, knows she can't really trust my mom to know any better than she does. So I think it's safe to say we're all kind of used to not being able to really depend on our mom to back us up. She's much too fond of trying to squish us into the shape of her imaginary ideal children, and none of us like that.

I deal with mine by limiting how often I talk to them.

I chose to live away from home as soon as I could, and never went back.

I don't know why your parents are doing this, I'd have to know more information. Perhaps it's because they don't bother to educate themselves on PDD-NOS, or to try to understand the real root of your problems.