FrostBender wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
FrostBender wrote:
I would love to see my parent’s house burn down and have them end up homeless. They don’t realize how much giving me a diagnosis hurt my self-esteem. Maybe they deserve bad things to happen to them.
There’s nothing good about autism. It’s a disease for a reason.
All the same struggles without an identifiable cause hurts one's self-esteem as well, I know this from experience.
Your folks suffering won't make your life any better.
Developing healthier coping mechanisms would improve your quality of life much more than gleefully celebrating other people's suffering will, especially in the long term.
I don’t think you get it. I don’t accept my autism. You do. I don’t want to get over it. The only thing that keeps me going is knowing that I might be able to fake a whole persona in order to succesfully get the things NTs get for granted.
I get that you're still punching yourself in the face and wondering when it's going to lead to something positive.
It's never going to lead to something positive and you'd be wise to change strategies, even if that means making peace with something you don't want to make peace with. You don't really have a choice though. You're always going to be autistic and no amount of LARPing as an NT will make you an NT.
Since you can't alter that reality you're going to have to accept it at some point. Every strategy you propose that isn't making peace with being autistic just wastes your time and energy while positively contributing nothing.
You don't have to get over it; you can continue to struggle more than you need to, fail more than you need to, suffer more than you need to and continue the strategy of refusing to accept reality.
Most likely that strategy will just lead to constantly being burnt-out, miserable and still not succeeding in the ways you'd like to succeed, while also ensuring you're emotionally wounded much more frequently.
No one can force you to live life differently from how you want to, but it's not wrong to point out why your preferred path is all cost, no benefit.
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