Do you find that you are always eager to please people?

I can be like that at Christmas. I feel that it's my responsibility to make sure everyone has the best Christmas. I also do things for people I don't much like, because they're not very nice. It can be hard to say no, even when you suspect they are taking advantage. 

I can be like that at Christmas. I feel that it's my responsibility to make sure everyone has the best Christmas. I also do things for people I don't much like, because they're not very nice. It can be hard to say no, even when you suspect they are taking advantage. 

I've always put others first ahead if myself, all my life. And now since i've realised i'm autistic, i've begun to realise so many people have been laughing at me, knowing that i was a fool. Just one example, although i could go on. I have a nephew who is a millionaire, not just your average millionaire, hes mega, in the Sunday Times rich list.  One Christmas i asked him for a bike, it wasn't a flash one, i thought he can easily afford it. Christmas morning comes and he gives me a packet of garden seeds, i was sure he was joking and my bike was out in his car,  but it wasn't. Over the years i'd given him and his family thousands. Not now, even the most stupid of us learn eventually.

I know exactly we what you mean. I felt the responsibility to make Christmas great too but it very rarely was