Am I being overly sensitive?

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I don't like jokes about autism being made but certain members of my family crack jokes about it with me present. I keep telling them I don't think it's funny but it doesn't matter....I get told I'm overly sensitive and I can't take it.

Sorry for exploding but I have no where to else to go to talk about this or even my autism....it's turned my world upside down. It doesn't feel like a blessing, It feels like hell.

I'm scared of crowds and cars driving around but I work as a cart pusher for a mall....so I'm putting myself in a terrible situation constantly. I'm interested in movie making but I mess up all opportunities presented to me in regard to that, I think I just stop reaching out.

Does anyone else feel anything similar from time to time?

I hear you on all of that. I've been told I'm too sensitive, and it annoys people. To me, it feels like they're being cruel to me, and then laughing at me when I get upset by their cruelty.

Some people are overly sensitive, and we don't choose to be. We were born this way. I feel the same way about crowds, and traffic - it's all too overwhelming, and my senses are constantly bombarded, to the point that it makes me feel dizzy and sick.

Sorry your family doesn't understand that. My sis-in-law is even more emotionally sensitive than I am, and will misunderstand things that were meant to be nice, and cry. And we apologize to her, instead of telling her she's stupid. I don't understand how that's so hard for other people to understand.

It's only really 2 members that are really getting to me with some of their jokes and stuff etc


I'm sorry for that rant yesterday, I got really emotional and I didn't know what to do.

I'm going to try to be more active with wrongplanet, I'm still finding it hard to come to terms with my diagnosis and I need a place like this