Does anyone else have an unaccepting family?

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To add a little something to my first post, I think what hurt the most was when my mom put me in an ABA summer camp for three weeks at the age of 14, and would pressure me to use the "skills" they were "teaching" me to become normal; saying things like, "Just going through the motions won't help you," and "I can't make you WANT to change." I never knew what I'd done that was so bad that I NEEDED to change, and she never told me.

Yeah, I pretty much lost my entire family and ALL of my friends when I got diagnosed. It's funny, they were willing to put-up with me BEFORE; then, when I needed them the most, they left me. Another thing that's interesting is that these people that left me were my adopted family. A couple of years ago, my biological family and I found each other on the Internet, and they didn't have any problem with my diagnosis----too bad we didn't get along, and one of my sisters actually UN-friended me. They fight sooooo much, amongst themselves, I just can't be around that.