I need to vent, please help.

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From my introduction post
"I've lived with my parents my whole life, but after many years o struggling to live peaceably with my mom, I have been forced to leave her; we just can't communicate with each other anymore. I have no jobs or qualifications, money or a driver's license. I'm staying with my sister family, trying to find a more permanent place to live, and because she lives in the boondocks without any public transportation, I'm sorta stuck in this house. I'm getting along much better with my sister's family, so that's good. But this is a life raft, There's here and then only the streets for me at the moment."

Things are now getting more difficult. My sister wants to try to be an intermediary for me and my mom; she wants to help us get along, You ever have a 45 minute conversation and you just go in circles and end up nowhere? I've been trying to keep my sister's family out of my issues with my mom, their efforts are just making things more uncomfortable between us. They want to understand and try to "fix" my communication problems. I really don't think they can, and it just hurts our relationship when they try.
Honestly, I don't think anyone can understand how my mind works, including me. Am I truly not capable of maintaining a complicated relationship? I've always felt such loneliness, but this damn aspergers just seams to be getting worse. I'm 31 and I've never been on a date even! I'm so tired of being the outsider that no one can understand. It hurts so much.

Sounds familiar.

Your mum is probably the overbearing type.

Its worth pointing out that the communication problems wont ALL be yours. Parents have nasty habits of externalising EVERYTHING and believing they are right when they are clearly wrong.

Its time for you to be selfish. You need to sort out an income.

As for being understood - I gave up on that. I just give them something simple enough for them to THINK they understand when really they dont.

try it - it works.

I couldn't have said it better, exactly my thoughts as well, answeraspergers.

Time to start your own life instead of beeing kind of a lodger at your parents or sisters place.

It's not that simple. I dearly love my family, and I have no intention of letting them go. I would get my own place and a income if I could, but I can't, maybe not ever. They tried again to "help fix my problem" again today; I kept begging them to stop because I know from endless experience that that never helps, and I was right, it just made things worse, again. And yeah, no one can seam to believe that the problem's not ALWAYS me. I can't loose family, their all I have.