Has your family rejected you because of your autism?

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Yes. Most of them i hardly see. Aunts uncles, cousins nephews, siblings. They don't seem to want anything to do with me.
My parents show dissapproval in more subtle ways. They try to appear interested but they display other behaviours sometimes that suggest they are dissatisfied with my personality.

No.

Otherwise, I would've ran away and roam the earth alone long ago.

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no, because they could gather around the cause of me being rejected

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I was fortunate enough to be born into the right family.

I was almost disowned by my mum three years ago in February. My mum couldn't stand the thought of me wearing a self-made German helmet. She thought it was too juvenile for me to do so and I should be just like her. (Gag). She asked if we shouldn't be a family and I told her I thought that was a great idea. We've sorted things out since than. I do admit that I still wear the helmet at least once a week, twice at the most. I'm trans and the helmet is a marker that I am.

Not at all now.
In the 50’s they weren’t so sure.

My mother and I both had/have AS, and the family kind of dissolved, rejecting us, and then the NT pair lost one to death. I never bonded with either parent, or expected help.

I had one relative that did not reject me. He rejected my diagnosis. A few months ago we had lunch and he told me he got it.

Before I learned about AS, I went to many meetings for various dysfunctional family situations, and have heard of many internal feuds for a huge variety of reasons. Autism is not a particularly big hazard to family relations. I hear of support as well as rejection here. However, there's not much of a fitness test for parents, and some just can't cope with anything unexpected.

My dad rejected me because of how I am, he doesn't know it's autism.

I have seen parents who gave their kids the exact opposite of what they needed at various stages of their lives. They virtually ignore the child when he or she is younger, and then become helicopter parents at an age when the child should be developing more independence.

My parents didn't tell me what they thought.
My younger sister thought I made it up.
My brother thought I used it as a crutch without even getting to know me more.
My family likes to be a**es by assuming things.
My sister in law is all over the place.
My big sister just thinks I'm different.
My uncle used me.

My mom thinks somehow it's all her fault. My dad is very prideful. He doesn't understand people w disabilities.

My mom sees autism as a bad thing.

She thinks that God can help.

But, she also thinks that I have an
oppressive demon...