Published on 12, July, 2020
I have came out to 4 people in my life about my autism so far. I have considered all of them as caring empathetic people. 2 of them were very nice, offering to listen to me since it's a lot of things in mind and lot of feelings. The other two had a reaction that surprised me. One said nothing but "thank you for sharing" and right after that asked me for a favor. It felt like this big reveal of mine ment nothing to them. The other one asked me "is it officially diagnosed?" And didn't respond to my answer only a day after writing a message "do you want to hang out?". I'm sad because of these reactions and I honestly don't know how to interpret them.. it felt like they don't care or understand how huge of a deal this is for me.. did anyone have similar experiences?
Of the four friends I told, one didn't react very much at all, but treats me in exactly the same way as he always has done, one suspected that they were also autistic, one has an autistic son, so was already onboard with everything autism, and the last one wrote such a very kind and supportive message that I came very close to tears reading it. So most responses were very positive and none were negative.