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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

This time of year is meant to be filled with joy and family get-togethers, but not everyone has family or anything to be happy about. So are you ok?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How does it go from "the doctor's tell me I have autism" to "you're delusional and insane"? That can't be the only thing that happened, I mean that you told your family?

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

My father is a delusional QTard who believes that Tom Hanks' son kills eats and rapes children for adrenochrome, believes that ANTIFA did Jan 6th, and took great pride in showing me where and how he assembles firearms without serial numbers. Also he drank and drove so much he had to have an interlock device on his car for 7 years.

My brother, who I was living with, barely passed high school as he was spending all his time going to raves, doing so much MDMA/Ecstasy that he gave himself Serotonin Shock Syndrome, believes Shadow People are real, believes he can see peoples 'auras', was constantly pressuring me into doing hallucinogenic mushrooms, and believes it is funny to gaslight his schizoeffective girlfriend by telling her that everything that she did or said to him in the past 30 minutes /did not actually happen/, and then go 'haha just kidding, love you babe smooch'

My mother has a neurological disorder, spent her childhood doing any random drugs anyone would hand her on the street, and just generally speaking has the emotional and intellectual capacity of an 8 year old.

I would go on but I think you get the idea.

Quite literally by the time I was a preteen I was placed into an advanced education track at my middle school, and would come home to my entire family having insane emotional breakdowns and fights with each other all the time, and I actually just went online and to the library, learned basic psychology and would have to stop all their arguments via de escalation and leading group therapy sessions, basically everyday, until I gave up and just moved the family computer into my room and put headphones on.

Took me 34 years and nearly dying many times now to realize my family has always been completely insane, and they are incapable of changing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is not a healthy environment for neurotypical people. You are basically Matilda. ;) I hope you find a safe home and safe space and keep away from these people.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Hah, Matilda, no one has ever called me that before. =)

Yeah, I plan on never speaking to any of them ever again. I would prefer they think I am dead, as they are dead to me.

Aha also I cannot help myself with a nitpick:

Autistic people are neurodiverse, as well as I think uh ADHD and schizoid types and i think there is one other major one.

Normies are neurotypical, lol.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Aha also I cannot help myself with a nitpick:

Autistic people are neurodiverse

Akshually, its 'neurodivergent'.

Sorry ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Haha, counter-nitpicked! =)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah I was gonna say its not healthy for neurotypical people, let alone someone nerodivergent like you. :)