Member of a family of progressives: there’s no stigma per se in my family about my autism, but sometimes I act different and they don’t understand and I can’t explain. That means sometimes ppl get angry / annoyed / confused / etc. because of something I can’t control, and sometimes they don’t understand why as well.
There’s never been a solution. I try explaining it but how do you explain what’s different between you and another person when it’s so native to you and you don’t have a comparison.
One of my cousins is on the autism spectrum and I am ADHD so we are in different neurological tribes than pretty much everyone else in the family. Neither one of us really connect with the rest of the family. It always felt like everyone else’s brain ran in a different language and that language was mutually unintelligible with mine. And my biological family is almost entirely composed of conservatives so there is A LOT of hostility toward anyone that is different.
Member of a family of progressives: there’s no stigma per se in my family about my autism, but sometimes I act different and they don’t understand and I can’t explain. That means sometimes ppl get angry / annoyed / confused / etc. because of something I can’t control, and sometimes they don’t understand why as well.
There’s never been a solution. I try explaining it but how do you explain what’s different between you and another person when it’s so native to you and you don’t have a comparison.
One of my cousins is on the autism spectrum and I am ADHD so we are in different neurological tribes than pretty much everyone else in the family. Neither one of us really connect with the rest of the family. It always felt like everyone else’s brain ran in a different language and that language was mutually unintelligible with mine. And my biological family is almost entirely composed of conservatives so there is A LOT of hostility toward anyone that is different.