Getting angry when people don't answer you

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I don't mean on the phone or anything, I mean in general. Like just now I was cleaning my teeth in the bathroom and my mum came in and wanted to have a bath and so she waited for me to come out, and after I finished cleaning my teeth I said something to her (can't remember what it was, but it was a rant about something), and as I was saying it she was shutting the door and didn't answer at all, not even a ''yes'', and I'm sorry but I always feel anger in me when I'm saying something to someone and they intentionally don't give an answer, whether what I'm saying is boring or not, I still even like at least a ''mm-hmm'' or something like that. So I felt like laying on the floor screaming and kicking the bathroom door in and letting her know how frustrating it is for me (as an Aspie) when people don't acknowledge to me by even just giving a murmur of agreement. I just feel like something is unfinished when this happens. I don't know why.

Instead of dealing with it like a 2-year-old, I just ran down the stairs and straight back on my laptop to write this, but as I think about the situation I still feel the pressure of anger in my lower abdomen (because that's where anger seems to sit with me), and I just feel I want to flare up, but I'm not, and hopefully it will past very soon. Does anyone else get this?

I think that not acknowledging someone is just rude and so everyone gets pissed when ignored. Just respond in kind and ignore her for a little while until she understands how irksome that is. If you were drawing the bath, though, maybe she simply did not hear you.

If you were ranting, then she didn't want to deal with you while you were ranting, which is perfectly understandable. I don't want to deal with others when they are ranting, either. So ease up on your mother. She's probably fed up and tired of your ranting. Ranting increases stress in the ranter, and in those who have to listen to it, so try to cut down on the rants. They are not helpful, and actually make things worse.

Some people think if they don't acknowledge that you feel bad you will just not feel bad, yeah it pisses me off to and then I want to punch whatever inanimate object I see first. Not that, that makes it any better but its hard not to. I mean sometimes if someone says something I might not know what to say but I usually still acknowledge they said something, but I wouldn't deliberately ignore someone unless they were trying to harass me or something.

Joe90, when are you planning to move out of the house and into your own place?

I can't help but shake my head at the frequency of your new threads and how every little problem needs to be posted and answered to validate your feeling good about yourself.

And if somebody doesn't answer, I don't get all huffy and run over to my computer to post about it post haste on a forum. Instead I think: That jerk!

EDIT: Don't mean to come off harsh. But you have a lovely brain. Your ability to use a computer shows you have problem-solving capabilities. Going through life by getting angry over the smallest things -- and especially mad at your mother -- nobody is stopping you. But doing so is wasting your energy, souring your outlook on life, and not getting you any closer to coping with life. And believe me, life is full of huge, genuine disappointments and not merely minor and imagined tiffs.

So whatever you can do to change your attitude so it's not always "Me me me!" -- please do it. We Aspies have a hard time empathizing and seeing other people's points of views. Maybe you can start to see things from your mother's POV. You could start by asking her if she thought you were mad when you left the 'loo. And then not get angry if she says No.

I've had the desire to stab people who did that to me

Yeah it drives me crazy.

Most people don't listen to anything I say, ever. and it's one of the most hurtful aspects of my life.

Not at all.