Family have rejected me since diagnosis.

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I wrote something to this effect months back, but it's all got a lot worse since.

My parents continue to deny that I have any problems. They refuse to believe in it. Common enough situation for a number of people here I'd say.
But then the siblings... My God!! They turned into disgusting little bullies over it! They attacked me several times on Facebook and they now b***h to my parents about me and call me "crazy" etc., further letting my parents stupid denial stance settle in further. Any minute, any day now, my mother will start making screaming control-freak phonecalls to me trying to force me to go back to the waitressing job that is the ONLY option for work back at my parents' place. It makes me so horribly sick and depressed every summer. It visibly damages my health and they don't care. They pretend they don't see how I get thinner and thinner and lose more and more hair over every summer. They pretend that there's no reason to be concerned when I start to fail at pretending I'm not sick and get sent home for at least a week in total by the time August arrives. Their ideas are more important to them than my wellbeing.

I'm desperately trying to get work in the city where I study, miles from parents' place, but no replies yet. I'm only just starting to get treatment for my AS-related issues and counseling to deal with their failures as a family, and I'm so scared that I'll have to go back to that controlling, hateful environment and get treated like I've wronged them all in some way...

I hope none of them have autistic kids, although it's possible as it's in the family now. I can only imagine the tortured lives they'd lead.

If they do have them, then it be karma for them.

lol guess so... so disgusted with them...

Not so good for the kids, though.

There is justice in the universe, but it's a weird thing. I personally wouldn't be surprised if they all end up with autistic kids.

I knew someone who, when she was young, was a complete jerk to a guy with respiratory issues. Specifically, he asked her not to wear such strong perfume because it worsened his [insert: allergies, asthma, or whatever other medical condition]. She took offense and wore even more perfume. Later in life, she had two kids with serious lung disease.

I'm short compared to the rest of my family (5 foot nothing). My younger siblings used to tease me relentlessly about being a "m***et" or "dwarf" and call me "little sister". For the record, I don't actually have any form of dwarfism, I'm just short. Then my younger sister suddenly stopped growing at the age of twelve. Now, membership to Little People of America is limited to those under 4'10" tall. Her height was taken in centimeters, and when I converted it to inches, her height turned out to be 4 feet and 9.9 inches. Just enough to be literally a m***et!

So yes, what goes around comes around.

I can imagine all their kids being autistic, too.

@ChrisVulcan Wow amazed at the karma stories! I guess it really is true. There are so many ways could come back to them... I think it might be that their personal lives start to fall apart... Bullies are insecure and that'll probably be already affecting their relationships now. And as I become less available as a target they'll lash out at someone else and regret it. That or simply the guilt will eat away at them over time. Not that I'm terribly interested in revenge though, just wish they'd either accept it or leave me alone, but actually picking on me over it? That's just lame.

Agreed!