Dad says I should change my personality to make friends?

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Helllo...I'm new here just created an account today...thanks for reading...

My father has been telling me this for a while now since I was a little girl. "Why can't you just talk to people, like you do to me?" Why are you so quiet, just open up your mouth and talk?" It's not that hard...

He knows that I've diagnosed with mild Aspergers (sorry not sure if that's spelled right.) Since I was 13, though my grandmother refused to believe theres anything wrong with me

I live with my grandmother and my father...my father never moved out of the house he works a crappy job and can't afford to pay his own phone bill he doesn't pay rent either neither do I (I don't have a job nor am I going to school at the moment.)
I guess he just wants me to do better than he has.

What really bothers me is when he tells me that I need to "change my personality." I told him today I'm thinking of doing some voluenteering even though I rather get paid for what i do...he told me that he was dissapointed in me when I told him I rather get paid

Anyways he said.
"If you're going to be a voulenteer you know that involves talking to people right?" You're going have to be more bubbly and outgoing, you're going have to change and up your personality."

Same with my grandmother (though not the same words the same idea pretty much.)...I don't know why I bother talking to them about anything they claim they understand then tell me to change.

I see all this crap on T.V and the internet about "being yourself." Complete bull...
I understand the title of this website...I feel like I'm on the wrong planet as cliche and worn out as it sounds...

Sometimes I wonder if there's an alternative word where the happy bubbly people are the ones that get the weird stares
And made fun of because they walk and talk funny

I'm so sick of being asked "Why are you so quiet, why do you walk so weird, why don't you make any eye contact?"

I got fired from my last job because of this, I wasn't catching on fast enough and I got lost a lot of the times and confused
The sad part was is that it was just making sandwiches.
I knew I was about to get fired due to me only getting 2-3 hours of work

My father kept asking me "Well why did you keep messing up, I know that you can do it."

I feel like he's trying to understand but doesn't I don't think he's trying to anger me but he does I'm tired of having these arguements with him every day

Sometimes I want to be left alone, the house we live in is so small though it's hard to escape these people when you want a piece of mind...

I don't think this site deals with dissociation much so I won't really bring up..

Before the job I got fired from my father had to force to go to the other one even though they were not paying me....I didn't recevie my pay check until after I quit 2 months later

My father still acted disapointed in me, he kept asking why I quit and would get angery..

My logic is if I'm not getting paid why the heck would I show up?

Does he just want me out of the house...

I'm going to stop there I'm starting to ramble thanks for uh reading really

Well, I may not be the best person to say this; but I somewhat agree with your father. A more outgoing personality makes it easier to make friends.

However, he should also realize that putting on a new personality is not as easy as putting on a new shirt - sometimes, it just won't fit!

Why not ask him to introduce you to some men your age? If he's so interested in your social life, then maybe he should take on a more active role in it.

You could talk about disassociation within the Schizophrenic, etc Subforum. There's a subforum here for mental illnesses other than autism.

Your dad is not setting a good example. What sort of crappy job does he have?

You don't have to change your personality to make friends. All you have to do is listen to what people say, and identify with other people (Show that you identify with those people by saying, for example. "Yes, I feel the same way about Donald Trump,"--or something like that).