Do People Censor You Often?

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It happens to me a lot. Everyone who knows me becomes a Censorship Board eventually. Almost everything I say becomes subjected to criticism - "you talk too fast", "you repeat yourself too often", "you're weird", "people will think you're crazy", "why do you speak in the third person?", "you shouldn't say that", "you're just using Asperger's as an excuse", etc. Very annoying. It makes me just want to isolate from everyone and withdraw into my own world.

I've been censored many times. My mum and sister constantly censored me before I've moved out on my own, 9 years ago. The staff at my clubhouse censor me a lot, because I mention issues that are controversial. I've been censored here on WP many times. I still get censored here by members who see me as less intelligent. I was censored in my own thread that I started asking what people thought of my special interests in the late March of 2012. I wish that there was a report button back than.

I am an extremely honest person, which has got me into trouble many times before.

My literal / extremely logical interpretations of situations / people has got me into trouble before.

Girl at school: *sobs*
Girl at school: *turns to me* I'm so upset, I am really upset
Me: why?
Girl at school: my boyfriend broke up with me, I don't know what went wrong *sobs*
Me: he probably broke up with you because he didn't like you, that is the general mechanism by which relationships terminate

I got into trouble with her friends afterwards, and had to ask my dad why. He said that I shouldn't have said that.

I see things in such a hardcore logical manner. My mum is very very emotional all the time. Since I started being a Stoic, my emotions are very low level now. However my mum is 90% emotion, at least, if not 95%. We often get into arguments because she bases her opinion purely on "go with your heart", whereas I am staunchly "go with your head".

I also have sometimes controversial views because I see things in logical systems. For example, I said on Facebook that the NHS should not spend money on giving women who can't conceive IVF. I said that because the NHS is in massive debt, there is a housing crisis in the UK and there aren't enough nursery places. There are too many babies being born, if the death rate could go above the birth rate for a while, then the UK population would stabilise and the housing crisis would lessen, even disappear.

Radio: there is a housing crisis, we need more houses and flats being built
Me: no, there is a birth rate crisis, we need less babies being born

Now that sounds sensible for me, but a lot of people don't like my views.

I am a scientist. I disregard emotion where possible. (Although it is obvious that a low level of emotion is necessary for a human being to survive so I am not totally devoid of emotion)

People try to shut me up--but they never succeed!

The ONLY time this happens to me is at WrongPlanet.net. No, seriously.

WrongPlanet is the only place I've not been told to shut up!
I think I see things too logically and without enough emotion for people too. I once got in trouble for asking "why doesn't California stop printing voting forms in Spanish to save money since it's not even an official language?" People have said I'd be better off not talking, but at least the people who know me know that'll never happen. Instead, I'll just keep getting silenced in other ways, by being blocked or banned.

I get censored all the time.

The worst is mental health professionals who tell me "everyone thinks like that" when I try to explain my problems/experiences.

Second worst is my mum, who constantly criticises my use of language. She probably thinks I am too "blunt", and all I think is: "she's known me for 59 years and STILL is telling me how to talk?"

A recent one was a mate to whom I confided my diagnosis and he replied: "maybe, but very mild aspergers". That was that conversation closed down.

I think the appropriate word here is 'criticized', not 'censored', which implies that expression is actually being blocked.

This mostly happened to me online when I was dealing with a bad psychotic depression & kept posting about stuff.

"you talk too fast" - My mother

"you repeat yourself too often" - My mother, classmates

"you're weird" - Classmates, friends

"people will think you're crazy" - My mother

"you shouldn't say that" - My mother, friends

When I was a kid people loved to censor me. Especially my "friends". They basically wanted me to be a nice little basic. Now that I'm older I've found a few real friends. They never censor me.

Too many times, even at this present. Especially if I ask a serious question. My mom kept telling me to ask it at home, not somewhere else. (where and when I'm usually in a mood to talk at all) Most at the time, all they say is :

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