"Don't let it get you down"

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Alright Aspies - this has got to be purely an NT thing! All the crappy stuff that's happened lately in my life / job interview not going well, finding out my GPA isn't high enough for grad school and the thing in my dx letter about "touching herself in socially inappropriate ways" / hell I am amazed with myself that I'm not having a bigger meltdown-depressive episode than I would normally!! !

So, there is this one woman in the group home I'm at right now who sees nothing but joy, happiness, sweetness & light in the world and when I tell her I'm bummed about the above-referenced events, she tells me, yup, you guessed it "Don't let it get you down"! I realize she was trying to be nice and encouraging and helpful, but, dammit, can I get a little EMPATHY once in a while???

Can someone just agree with me that bad days are going to happen, but that they will go away after a while??? Along with my crappy ass mood???! !!

Do u feel like when a person says that they are basically criticising you for being sad about the negative events?

When I feel sad about something bad that happened and someone says that to me because they think it will encourage me to move forward, I get that impression.

When someone says something like that to me I think they just want something platitudinous to say so they can quickly go back to thinking about themselves. It's ridiculous to tell someone they don't feel what they feel.

I have been told this when someone would upset me so my friends would tell me don't let them get me down. They are right though, I shouldn't worry about what some people think, only worry when most people think it, then I know I have a problem.