My living conditions are not pleasant.

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I'm not looking for sympathy, I just would like to vent like everybody else, and then look for some advice about how to change my situation.

I lost my job on June 20th. My birthday was on the 23rd. I got a cake and a guilt trip. I had to move back in with my mother, so now myself and my spouse are living with her. She acts like I'm still her child, so she comes knocking on my door all the time to bother me, she commands me to do things, to go to bed at a certain time, and she's being a complete bother. I appreciate that she let me crash because I couldn't afford the apartment anymore, but she's making my life a living hell. She's been the cause of 4 out of 5 fights that happen between me and my spouse since we moved in here. I'm starting work soon, thankfully.

I have problems sleeping, much like the rest of you. She gives me this high-and-mighty speech about how, "Humans aren't meant to sleep like that." and "You need to wake up at a NORMAL hour like a NORMAL person." like she doesn't understand my situation and she just thinks I'm being lazy or difficult.

I'm just miserable because my mother is causing a lot of grief and I don't want to say anything to her because she's the one that's giving us a place to live.

I know that feeling my parents are far to overprotecting
depite the fact that I am 18 they treat me like I am 12
And when I get mad they say "you don't act your age"
I am stuck with them for a few more years ALONE
I hope you get away from your mother
(and on the last day tell her to shove that "normal bedtime" right up her ass)
there is no such thing
your bedtime is when you want it to be
and you need to make that clear to her

I lived with my boyfriend and his parents for awhile, it was awful, they didn't treat him like a grown up at all though were more respectful to me. I hope you get your own place again soon.

Sorry about your situation. I Hate it when people pull that"what's normal" crap on us. You are old enough to make your own bedtime. I would try and make money so you can get out. Don't make yourself feel quilty either. It sound like your mom need to loosen up.

I'm going to try to put a positive spin on this situation. Your mom sounds like she is just being a mom. To you, she is nagging. To her, it's how she looks out for you. She cares enough to nag. It took years for me to deal with this aspect of my relationship with my mom. It went on well after I moved out. I used to walk out of the house in a huff while she was nagging. But she had a rough life, and always had difficulty showing positive emotions (like me). Walking away with a quasi-meltdown only made matters worse.

What would I do? I would answer her negative criticism with a calm, positive rational response. You've already started the process yourself. Her saying you sleep late -- implying you're lazy -- is answered with "I'm going back to work." Obviously, getting out of the house to earn some cash will give you some relief. Use her sideswipes as a motivator. Does your mom display AS tendencies? Even more reason to think and develop some coping techniques and deal with it.

Dang, I sound like Dr Phil. How annoying. Oh well. Just tryin' to be helpful.

Thank you all for your comments. I'll take all of this into account and bring it up the next time the situation arises.

My parents passed away early. ( both before I was 30) But rading this makes me realize it's probably a good thing Mom isnt around to give her opinion on AS. She certaily didn't have a very accepting view of regular peychotherapy though she could have benifited from it.
One of my last conversations with her she asked me when I was going to give up toys. She had been on me about that since the day before my 12th birthday.
The thing is at the time of our conversation I was working as afreelance protype scuptor for a toy company in the city. This was after going to college for art.

My parents passed away early. ( both before I was 30) But rading this makes me realize it's probably a good thing Mom isnt around to give her opinion on AS. She certaily didn't have a very accepting view of regular peychotherapy though she could have benifited from it.
One of my last conversations with her she asked me when I was going to give up toys. She had been on me about that since the day before my 12th birthday.
The thing is at the time of our conversation I was working as afreelance protype scuptor for a toy company in the city. This was after going to college for art.

Sounds a lot like my parents, except add an alchohol addiction to my dad and uncontrollable anger to my mom. I love them still, but I just can't be around them anymore. I got sick of hearing how I'll accomplish nothing in life, how because of asbergurs I can't get a driver's licence and wont succeed on my own.

Your parents told you you can't get a drivers' liscence?

Yep, oddly enough the asst. principal and the social worker of my school helped me practice (with their car) when I turned 18

For years I couldn't understand why my mother spent so much time sleeping on the couch in the middle of the afternoon complaining about her back. It wasn't untill I had an accident with my back and I noticed noone believed me untill I had an operation.
As for being lazy , difficult and hiding behind AS as an excuse not an wxplanation, I'm afraid I would believe it's a load of bull if I wasn't going through it myself.

I'm gonna quote another Wrong Planet member:

"If the world did'nt suck so much we would all fall off."

Can't remember thier name . . . .