Your Opinion of Adults when You Were a Kid

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I thought that adults were intentionally ret*d. (they could have been normal, but decided to be ret*d) My views haven't changed.

I related better to adults than to other children. Even today, I relate much better to people in my parents' generation than to my own.

Wow, looks like a lot of aspies feel strongly about how adults treated them when they were kids. And I'm seeing a lot more negative responses than positive ones. While the point of this thread was to vent about bad memories, it's also raising an interesting concept: most adults simply forget about "bad" aspects of childhood. Sure, everyone talks about "innocence", "magic", and "imagination" (the Disney company is to blame for that), but virtually no one mentions powerlessness, lack of money, being told what to do, and spending hours on homework.

But getting back to the thread's original topic, I can definitely say that my opinion of adults was definitely nowhere near positive. It's like they were trying to put up a "wise elders" front, while in reality being hypocritical tyrants. So as most kids simply believed that adults were the wise elders, I could see right through the "cover-up", and "knew" what kind of tyrants adults really were. Sadly, there was no one I could share it with, since I was "just a kid", and an aspie to boot. After all, kids didn't believe me, and confronting adults with the "truth" was out of the question. I'm so glad it's all far behind me. I'd sooner die than ever be a kid again.

I agree with Aspie1. There's nothing magical or tenderly nostalgic about being ganged up on by classmates intent on brutality, or teachers mocking you when you're late to school because your autistic sister just had a seizure and you had to help hold her down. The really cool thing about being an adult, is if someone tries to harm me because of my being on the spectrum, I can have their ass hauled off to jail!