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Does anyone just wish so much of the burden wasn't put on you? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to c/autism@lemmy.world
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It seems like all the onus is on to socialise in the meantime you are relentlessly judged for how you go about socialising or dating. I am on college right now and I am seriously struggling to make friendships. My anxiety is kinda on overdrive because of it. I am expected to know if I am welcome to come or not but if I am not supposed I am judged severely. Meanwhile there's no one really coming up to me trying to help me. You know I'd like to just once be good enough for someone to come up to me and say that they just want to be around me. Enough of the guesswork. I am tired of it. I'm in my mid 20s just give me a fucking break at this point. So much of my "disability" would just go away if people had the decency to fucking educate themselves and expect me to know everything. I put myself out there and talk to people. I've done my fucking part.

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[–] DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Uh this hurts. Please remember where we are posting here and that people might have subtle but very relevant differences in the way they empathise and communicate. Thank you.

If you want people to understand you then you have to express the you. That's what OP does. Expressing their discomfort so that others can know about it. If others don't feel comfortable around someone who is not comfortable with them in the first place, then that's exactly what they should feel. Discomfort. ... OP seems to not yet know that the people they are looking fore will be the ones who actually understand such a mode of empathic communication, and know how to be comforting.