Criticism

I can't imagine that many people like being criticised - why would they? :)

At least if it's constructive, you can use it to change things you might dislike, but when you feel like criticism is unreasonable - perhaps masking deeper emotions - you're put in the horrible position of either starting an argument or else biting your tongue and trying to shrug it off, which I usually do but then end up feeling 'weak' as a result, as though I'm not standing up for myself.

I don't know how much value there is in seeing 'being criticised' as something that's particularly related to autism, other than, in context, you can see how hidden impairment causes difficulties which other people don't necessarily perceive or understand, and issues such as being forced to conform to 'normal' behaviour, however ill-justified this might be.

We're kind of vulnerable on a social level, making us easy targets for anybody who feels like making themselves feel better by putting somebody else down, and we're also easy targets in that we tend to stick out from the crowd too.

I'm probably my own worst critic to be honest anyway, and feel like I kind of 'have all angles' covered in terms of feeling like a useless fool... when anybody else points it out can generally just laugh about it: I think that the entire human race is basically pretty idiotic isn't it? 

That said, I know how obsessed I can get by the sense of injustice from feeling criticised unreasonably - it's like my mind demands that it all be sorted-out, settled and forgotten about, but that's never going to happen: usually it was just some idiot blurting out some nonsense that I overheard on the bus or something like that, who no doubt forgot about the whole thing by about 10 seconds later.

I can't imagine that many people like being criticised - why would they? :)

At least if it's constructive, you can use it to change things you might dislike, but when you feel like criticism is unreasonable - perhaps masking deeper emotions - you're put in the horrible position of either starting an argument or else biting your tongue and trying to shrug it off, which I usually do but then end up feeling 'weak' as a result, as though I'm not standing up for myself.

I don't know how much value there is in seeing 'being criticised' as something that's particularly related to autism, other than, in context, you can see how hidden impairment causes difficulties which other people don't necessarily perceive or understand, and issues such as being forced to conform to 'normal' behaviour, however ill-justified this might be.

We're kind of vulnerable on a social level, making us easy targets for anybody who feels like making themselves feel better by putting somebody else down, and we're also easy targets in that we tend to stick out from the crowd too.

I'm probably my own worst critic to be honest anyway, and feel like I kind of 'have all angles' covered in terms of feeling like a useless fool... when anybody else points it out can generally just laugh about it: I think that the entire human race is basically pretty idiotic isn't it? 

That said, I know how obsessed I can get by the sense of injustice from feeling criticised unreasonably - it's like my mind demands that it all be sorted-out, settled and forgotten about, but that's never going to happen: usually it was just some idiot blurting out some nonsense that I overheard on the bus or something like that, who no doubt forgot about the whole thing by about 10 seconds later.