[What should I do?] Bad parenting

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Hi, my parents are denying that I need special needs, and that I need help calming down during an autistic melt down.
They live in Asia and they think that doing so is spoiling the kid. They live in a place where beating a naughty son/ daughter is the norm.

They are also refusing to read books and refusing to give assistance, claiming that I need to find a way to help myself.

I tried many ways to calm myself, but I couldn't. Once I'm angry it could last for hours and hours and affect my sleep, which then causes me to catch colds or flu's.

I'm already 25 years old, and wasn't diagnosed when I was 23.
There aren't any courses for me to help managing anger. All the autistic help here are for children aged 12 or under.
I see other parents being very nice to their kids according to medical advice, and I feel sad that my parents refuse to be like them.
They strongly belief that people from the older generation are of a higher hierarchy.
They think that I'm disrespecting them when I loose control of my anger.

I don't know what to do. I only know I feel very sad.

It can be heartbreaking to not have the love and support you want from your parents...but unfortunately, that is what some of us have. The only solution is to acknowledge the past, let it go and look forward. You have a lot going for you because you are now capable of insight into your condition - the challenge is to apply it in a positive and happy way.

This will probably sound absolutely ridiculous, but can you work toward moving to a part of the country or a different country entirely that has better understanding of autism?

Less dramatically, can you reach out to some of those nice parents and see if they'll help you, too?

Can i ask what sort of things help trigger it? For me it is often a result of either myself or others being threatened/harmed/unjust acts(a good way to show people a mild form is to just imagine my friends being hurt and i even have to avoid some TV shows due to triggers), when i am feeling extremely trapped emotionally or physically or to paraphrase Popeye "when i've had all i can stands and i can't stands no more" In short for ME it is generally a form of a survival state not just anger going out of control.

Remember a lack of needs being met could trigger a survival state just as much as physical danger if extreme enough.

But that is the underlying causes for ME could be different for others.

As for what helps. Yep a good bath, candles, snuggling with my pug and similar things.

As for preventions...Honestly find the causes and try to avoid em..I could go into preventative stuff for me but that would involve going into my own issues and this should be about helping you.

The best way to help you though would be to have a better understanding of the circumstances that act as triggers for you and the ways they interplay. then we could probably help you piece together the causes.

I feel annoyed on the inside when my mum's that way, but I also bridal my tongue and watch what I say. In other words, I think about my mum's feelings before I open my mouth. That helps me a lot.