Posted: Aug 13, 2016 1:06 pm
Yes, that's exactly what I've had all my life. From my mother and sisters, to the men I had relationships with, and a mother-in-law who saw it as the purpose of her life to teach me how to speak properly, and to stop flapping my hands. My dad got me, because he saw himself in me, which is why I didn't realise there was a problem with my third son when he demonstrated the same behaviours, and then when he was diagnosed at 12, said it wasn't autism because "he's just like me". It took a crisis, with him, and then me having to cope with that, that caused me to go for my own diagnosis. I've just had it now. Stupid people telling me to "get a filter", total bloody strangers on the internet trying to use "you're far too intelligent to have a mental problem" to make me conform to what they think I should be saying. I'm not defending myself anymore. If people think they can criticise me to my face without even considering what the reaction would be if they said to a person of colour "you should just act more white", I'm going to just tell them to piss off, to their faces too. See how they like being told they're just ignorant bigots.