I am so sick of my relatives treating me like I'm beyond stupid !
A few days ago, our litter-training baby pet crapped on the kitchen tiles, which I went to clean up. Which of course = step 1 - pick up the crap with paper and throw it away. Step 2 - wash and disinfect the floor. I had just picked it up and thrown it away, and before I could do anything, someone comes in and starts telling me what to do. "No, you have to wash the floor, not just pick it up. Use soap and water."
I know ! I know how to clean up ! How they trust me to be able to wipe my own arse is a mystery with this attitude. Anyone over the age of 5 would understand this.
Then tonight, someone had made salad, and I was picking stuff I didn't like out with tongs as I served myself. Someone comes up behind me and starts instructing me on how to serve myself salad - "you have to get the tongs in there and turn it over, to make sure everything is mixed in, and hasn't gone to the bottom."
I know ! I understand how to serve myself food !
I'm going to be un-PC and say it - they treat me like I am severely mentally ret*d. As if I don't understand how to do anything for myself, even the simplest things, without being told the bloody obvious.
I'm autistic, ok, but I have never given them any indication that I am aware of that I am incapable of simple tasks, or that I'm so stupid I don't understand how.
I really don't know why they treat me like this. When I confront them, they claim they weren't treating me as if I'm stupid. They evade with excuses like "I'm just trying to help."
Even if I explain that one should carefully consider if I would see fit to say this to them or not before they open their mouths, they still do this.
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Alexithymia - 147 points.
Low-Verbal.