I'm wondering whether I'm going full paranoid recently (!)

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Hi.
Recently, my mind keeps spitting out situations where people have treated me like a complete r****d (IQ=grasshopper). I don't know whether my assessment of the situations my mind keeps puking out and make me angry is correct or I'm being clinically paranoid. Seriously I'm kind of concerned that i'm losing it.
It always go like this (I remember a situation) that people / docs / therapist / family members / parents treat me like I have an IQ of 10. like explaining to me the simplest stuff. Or are extremely condescending. Or just don't get what I say, no matter how often I repeat or rephrase it. (or in some cases they actually GET IT, agree, reassure, repeat, but later they do something completely different and say they didn't get it).
I am also experiencing this kind of treatment very often recently (again, wondering whether I'm making this s**t up or whether this is happening to me)

I am wondering whether I'm being psychotic and seeing patterns that AREN'T ACTUALLY THERE, or my eyes have just been opened to life long mistreatment. Both are crappy options and I prefer non of the former, but at least, it's good to know.

I’m looking forward to hear your stories and compare them to mine to make up my mind about this being the normal experience of someone on the spectrum.

I will throw some examples just for fun. Feel free not to read them if you don't have the time. Or read the ones where the first line sounds interesting to you.

1. I have IIH (Idiopathic intracranial hypertension). it's a good idea to have an MRV (venography) done to rule out vascular disease. so I ask one neuro. she says she doesn't know what that is. I ask another neuro, hand him papers from local clinic, he says he doesn't know what that is and if I really want it done I should call the clinic where the paper is from. So I call the clinic, ask for MRV and an app with the radiologist. I said numerous times what I'm about. They say ok. Sent email to confirm the MRV. All done. Call again to confirm before the app and they said I'm scheduled for regular MRI. I said I've had an MRI recently at their OWN clinic and they must have that. And there is no sense in making an MRI. Last MRI was all clear. And it was just last year. So I thought maybe I got to the radiologist and ask him to do the MRV. So I very firmly, canceled the MRI (because they have a recent one already) and confirmed very firmly, numerous times that I'll be seeing the radiologist. They gave me an APP with the radiologist, they told me the time and the date. So I go there, and they send me to the waiting room, and I can here them talking all the time about me having no APP with the radiologist because I canceled the MRI. They kept talking and repeating themselves ("how can this be? he cancels the mri? but wants to go to the radiologist? how can this be? why is he here?") it went for a very long time. And needless to say, the radiologist kept on telling me: "we are going to make an MRV, of course, if you want and agree: DO YOU AGREE??" Thank got at least at the end he copied that the issue was that they were not going to do the MRV and I'm not a crazy person randomly denying an MRI. But I'm not quite sure of that either.

2. I was talking with my psychoanalyst, (I‘m right now trying to solve the mystery why the F I’m actually going to him in the first place) and he said “people don’t understand you”. At the same day I kind of had a rather heated verbal argument with him about docs and such having talked into me since years that I’m psychotic since years and I hate being judged and such. So I ask him:” you say people don’t understand what I say, can you say why?” so he says:”you just told me not to judge, and now I have to judge? The reason and whether I tell you the reason isn’t of any help”. Later he said:” but, you know, it’s would be a good thing if people would understand you, don’t you think?” I mean what kind of BS is that? I mean it’s so painfully obvious THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING. Do I really need an impulse to think about it? I mean it’s like telling someone: “ you know, it would be good if you weren’t sick, don’t you think?” or “it would be good, if you were rich and famous, don’t you think?”
I also told him that i’m having my DNA sequenced at an Italian lab and want to run it through this website called promethease to find out whether there is some genetic problem going on with me Frankly, I didn’t think much before saying this to him. Maybe bragging a bit. So he starts analyzing it:”so mr. x, what’s so fascinating to you about this test?” me:” why shoudn’t this be fascinating to ANYONE?” him:” maybe there is a connection between this and you being fascinated by 3D-Printers and owning a 3D-Printer, because they both are very precise things maybe?” seriously?!? WTF! But this is a whole different story.

3. Sometimes, my parents or my siblings explain to me how I should behave. In very condescending ways. Like how I should keep and arm length of distance. Or don’t follow them at the mall and let them shop alone. Simple stuff. It seems to me that these are rather their PREFERENCES about how crap should be done. They change their minds about them sometimes and want the exact opposite. and they TOTALLY do NOT adhere to these themselves. They mostly do the EXACT opposite of what they tell me to do (particularly the personal space thing and the arm length thing). They are trying to re-educate me I think. And I’m really a decent person. So I kind of suppose the problem here is that they have a certain view of me. The view being that I’m a complete IDIOT, which I’m probably not. Just probably. I’m not even sure anymore. Because everyone is treating like that.

There are many many more examples. Probably much better and clearer ones. I could fill books. But these are recent ones.

Again. I don’t know whether I’m being paranoid, or whether this stuff is relevant at all. OR rather I was blind to all this for some reason and now it hit me like a block of frozen toilet-waist from an airplane flying by and I can’t adapt to that.

Looking forward to hear whether this is a common thing or not.

Cheerz
Omid.

I know my situation. I know who I believe.