GivePeaceAChance wrote:
"social skills" - I am perfectly social, just do it different than NT's and they are too close minded to accept people who are different.
plus I have superior senses and intelligence to most people I meet.
My mum still had a hard time accepting me until just 2 years ago, because I like a certain part of the 1960s and I like to celebrate it - Why not? It's one of my differences? She couldn't accept it for three years after I got my life back on track, from 2009 until 2012. She wanted her happy place to be my happy place. She wanted me to watch American Idol and Dancing With The Stars. She wanted me to listen to QM/FM and like the same latest artists that she did. She wanted me wearing the same fashions that her and my sister wore.
It wasn't until I put my foot down and told it like it is to her, that she dropped those expectations and finally accepted me as I really am. It's not just our peers who shun us. Our parents can do the same thing without realizing it.
I live for today in the present on my own terms, by going on the Internet many times a day.
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The Family Enigma