Feeling like a mess and a loser...

I have done two things that are wrong because my autistic brain has told me to do and it will be fine, but it was not and I am very sorry for it. 
The first one that my sister needed colouring in paper because she did not have any and would need something to do to whilst being off the wi-fi (she was not allowed to be on because others were using Zoom which causes wi-fi quality to decrease). I had some blank colouring in pages from a journal I had a few years ago but never finished, so I gave them to her. But this was a journal when I was going through a bad time (not anymore) that I crossed out  all the lines and ripped up the worst pages so she could not see them, and I was happy to finally get rid of it. But I did not think that my family would read them especially since it was so old and crossed out. But they did and although they said they were not having a go at me when they questioned why I would give pages to my sister to colour in (it was an accident that I should have thought about in hindsight), but I made a mistake later on and they used it to hang over me by suggesting that I am not a good person and I made them want to kill themselves. It was a complete accident and I am so sorry for it, I don't know what to do to make it right.
The second thing I did that was wrong was that today I did not realise that the postman had arrived until the door made a noise, but I did not want to disturb my parents when they were in a meeting, as this has annoyed them in the past (people walking around noisily whilst meetings were going on). I also assumed that the postman would leave the stuff at the door as that has happened to my parcels in the past, but they left a card saying pick it up tomorrow which I was not aware that they had done until it was too late. Now they are angry at me for it because they think it was done out of laziness (when it was not), and that I did not just apologise. I did apologise but I also wanted to explain because they did not like it in the past when I just apologised without explaining and now I am confused and guilty. 
I don't know what to do. I am so fed up of explaining the ways my autistic brain works to non-autistic people, and I fear these will become reasons to throw me out. 

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  • I seem to end up in situations like this too. The first one is like an embarassing mistake and these happen to everyone. I would probably just try and laugh it off like "I can't believe I wrote that" or treat it like a joke instead of something serious.

    The second situation I often find myself doing stuff like this. An example could be me avoiding putting the glass into my recyling bin (which makes a big noise) because I don't want to annoy the neighbours or talk to them, ignoring a phonecall because I don't want to talk (I also done this at work when no one was in the office), in that situation as well as yours you can think of it as if we were out having a social life the result would be the same. It's very common for postmen to not wait for people to come to the door anyway

  • I think I will try to laugh it off as a mistake but it is quite hard to do that when my parents say they wanted to kill themselves over this. I tried to say that this was a while ago but they did not like that because they said 'well how was I meant to know?'.

    I can related to the examples that you have mentioned. It is true about the postmen, most of the deliveries at my house have been left at the door because delivery men wanted to maintain social distancing. So how was I meant to know? I will treat the situations though as if I was having a social life. It's just very hard. 

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  • I think I will try to laugh it off as a mistake but it is quite hard to do that when my parents say they wanted to kill themselves over this. I tried to say that this was a while ago but they did not like that because they said 'well how was I meant to know?'.

    I can related to the examples that you have mentioned. It is true about the postmen, most of the deliveries at my house have been left at the door because delivery men wanted to maintain social distancing. So how was I meant to know? I will treat the situations though as if I was having a social life. It's just very hard. 

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