Not understanding things

Yep - This happens a lot to me.  I just made a post more about when that happens, how others are quick to take advantage and even bully me.  The responses about learning to do things for oneself is great for those that can, but this is not always applicable for everyone. I myself am part of a project that offers support workers.  I often rely on those supports.  Other times I try not to be so reliant on others and learn what I can ahead of time.  Plan ahead, pick my times, no what I want, get in and get out kind of thing.  It can be hard though when not feeling spirited.  It's episodic to be sure.  ASD is often accompanied by a myriad of other symptoms that feed off eachtoher.  This can make it very hard.  I'm levle 2 with chronic complex PTSD.  I suffer a lot with what you pose here.  I do my best to be polite but it can be so easy to lose it and melt down.  Then the shame comes and it goes round and round from there.  

A melt down need not always encompass being aggressive.  Sadly others who do not understand often project this onto those of us that suffer like so.  Understanding how people feed off eachtoher helps me more than trying to learn things I find too complex.  Some are more affected than others.  Graduated exposure with help from a family, friend or support person can really help though.  Work on building confidence up. Try not to be hard on ourselves.  Maybe even forgive ourselves in a healthy way that does not judge.  Try to look after ourselves better and not give into the negative energy that feeds off all that exists during those episodes.  

I'm still working on this.  Understanding how quickly my challenges set in once under stress and how it is that others in the public react.  I mean not to suggest I am never wrong, but often I feel this world simply does not have time for those whom struggle outside the box or list of expected responses.  That alone can make it very hard.  Sometimes I walk away leaving my purchases to avoid what I know others do not have the time to understand.  At other times I it's a non issue.  

I hear ya loud and clear. Yes I often get overwhelmed and upset by not understanding things during periods of stress but do my best to avoid the melt downs. 

Yeah definitely true 

Yeah, when you ask people to explain something, sometimes they get mad at you, or say bad things about you. So I learned to teach myself things most of the time. 

Thank you, yeah sometimes you do it’s hard when ask someone explain something but the don’t 

I think that if there's a lot to learn, but not enough time to learn it all, then that can get overwhelming and stressful. So I break things down to smaller pieces, and learn one thing at a time, and make a game of it. And if I get anxious, I slow it down, and learn that one thing (and only that one thing) for a day or two, before moving onto the next. Your brain will eventually recognize a pattern, so even if it's some obscure word in a foreign language, if you only see that word for a day or two, your brain will eventually remember it.