Speaking

Good for you. Sometimes that's what's needed. 

Everyone talks to me like I’m a child except for my sister. She treats me like an adult but the only one who does.

There’s a neighbour who talks really loud at me like I’m deaf even though I’m not. As soon as my mum told them I have ASD she said I’m sorry to hear that like its a disease and has spoken loud at me like I suffer deafness since. People can be strange. Most talk down to me; like you would a child.

The only time I've ever really had that was with a bank teller, speaking loudly and slowly at me, she know I was ASC, so I told her I was autistic and not deaf or stupid and could she please deal with what I wanted, not what she thought I should have. I did complain about her to the manager.

I usually end up cutting those people off or having as little to do with them as possible from then on.

That’s how I feel people talk to me like a child

I've always felt this way. I feel that some people use my name when they speak to me, as they would a small child.(I'm 49)

I doubt anyone knew I was autistic, but they knew I was different and occasionally prone to meltdowns, so they infantilised accordingly.