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 dont think its such a mess, it was an accident. I once done something similar. I had awful bosses that bullied me. I had been writing in a notebook about my life and troubles, why I thought I was autistic really, ready to give to the doctor as I have trouble explainng in person. I accidentally picked up this book with work related books and not only took it into work but left it on my desk! Being the awful people they were, they riffled through my stff that night, as I would notice when things had been moved around and they'd even left rubbish on my desk!

     I felt on edge for so long afterwards

  • That's so awful what those bosses did to you and I am so sorry to hear about that. What I did was just as much of an accident as your incident was and I generally did not think that it would lead to bad consequences which I am very sorry for. And like you I do feel on edge because I do not know how long my family will be angry for what I have done. I don't think NT people fully understand how autistic people can make mistakes that NT people would never have thought of.

    How did you resolve your situation, if you did at all? Hopefully things got better for you. 

  • I left lol. I couldn't take any more of the daily bullying, silly things like I was called fat(I'm not) they'd belittle me and berate me, pull me in for degrading talks on mistakesike id used a font they didn't like or my size of font was 11 not 12 on an email! Yet they'd rush me to complete work all of the time. NT people make mistakes but they handle them differently sometimes. I'll be worrying about this for years later where as a NT person may just worry for the day then laugh about it a year later

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  • I left lol. I couldn't take any more of the daily bullying, silly things like I was called fat(I'm not) they'd belittle me and berate me, pull me in for degrading talks on mistakesike id used a font they didn't like or my size of font was 11 not 12 on an email! Yet they'd rush me to complete work all of the time. NT people make mistakes but they handle them differently sometimes. I'll be worrying about this for years later where as a NT person may just worry for the day then laugh about it a year later

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