This is a not so great side of autism and it’s a truly heavy point.
Misunderstandings have been a major source of distress, conflict, relationship issues, disappointments, financial penalty, abuse, ridicule, false accusations, name calling …
All the above things were compounded into my brain and resulted in poor mental health. Misunderstanding of autism meant I was treated with a major tranquilliser by a Psychiatrist who said “this will change your thinking” because he thought it was odd that I didn’t want to be near an abusive person and he didn’t recognise that I was autistic.
