Black sheep

Post Reply New Topic

How many of you would consider yourselves the "black sheep" of your family because of your autism? That's kind of the situation I'm in. Outside of my very immediate family (parents and grandparents), I'm pretty much ignored. One of my cousins have me blocked on Facebook and most of the other ones fail to acknowledge me. I can maybe think of 2 cousins that have at least a sliver of respect for me. Anybody else in a similar situation?

Baa-aa-aaa !

My whole family is a bunch of black sheeps so I actually fit in.

No. I am cherished.

OREN......wow, i hope you realize how fortunate you are.

i am always amazed how so many humans 'complain' about such minor things. don't you realize that many of us on w. p. and in the real world have never had anyone to love us. parents who abused us at every chance, teachers who treated us like we did not exist, relatives, what relatives? i'm sure i had aunts/uncles/cousins but i never met any of them. try to imagine what it is like to never have been hugged and told you were loved. try to imagine to only be laughed at when you've asked someone for help when you're a child who is afraid. try to imagine being laughed at by everyone you know because you stutter so bad.

black sheep, closer to black holes.

but, of course, you don't want to hear about it...you don't want to know we exist.

in all honesty though, i can barely imagine the horror of being blocked on facebook!

i've felt like a black sheep in my family a lot. :-/

definitely. someone at school even said i was 'a black sheep of the family' when he found out who some of my relatives were

I'm the black sheep of the family. I was never good enough. I never talked about the right things, I never talked right, for an entire summer. I remember contemplating suicide for three summers, after that one.

YES!

hey FIDDLER/PIANO PERSON

i find it pretty strange that anyone would think i was talking to oren when i said what you have highlighted.

what i said to oren was that he was fortunate. i hope oren lets those who love him know that he knows how lucky he is to have them. i envy oren. i would not trash oren for being so lucky.

what you highlighted is what i meant for the gen. public. you know, humans like you. skip over this post??? skip over this post??? you're exactly the person i was talking about. skip over the post, i don't want to know you exist. that's what you said, right. i'm less than you are, right? you're the elitist type i was making fun of. i'm sure you think being banned on facebook is just a terrible life blow.

as much as you want me to vanish, so you don't have to know things like me exist, i think not.

i've got a great idea, report me to a moderator type. let us see if they are superhumans like you appear to be



oh, by the way......... THANK YOU FOR PROVING WHAT I WROTE IS TRUE.

to oren: if you're still here, did you think i was being cruel to you? i bet you didn't.

My whole family except my sister, the poor thing, are aspies. We actually have a hard time getting along because we all clash so much. I do feel your pain though, hope things get better.

it's really strange.

I'm not really a 'black sheep' or seen as one, since I don't behave badly.

however in some of my extended family there's spouses of my cousins that don't really 'get' me and look down their nose.