Published on 12, July, 2020
So I am finding people very frustrating. When you talk about your day to day struggles (because they ask) and people respond with “oh I’m like that too!” Or “isn’t everyone like that? Oh I must have autism too” and I’m just like what is going on with the world??? Anyone else had these issues with people????
Questions: how should people respond? What is appropriate response? What should they say? Is there any response they could give which would be ok?
Good question. What I hope for most is something like "Oh - thanks for sharing that, what does that mean for you?"
Well I've just come out to my brother in an email (explaining why a job I was offered didn't materialise because I disclosed ASD after the interview) and he simply replied "Aspergers? Is it a benefit scam?"
Oh joy!
The more I understand, the more I'm frustrated by the lack of compassion which results from the fact that the impact of autism isn't properly known generally. People either know nothing, or mistake autism for one or more of its co-morbid conditions with more obvious symptoms. When they see an autistic person who copes, just, they see someone who's doing OK. They don't see the inner effort to keep heads above water, nor the suicidal thoughts.