Talking with Your Family

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Does anyone here feel more comfortable talking with complete strangers about their feelings and things that are bothering them than their own family? I'm always afraid to talk about things with my family because I'm afraid they'll laugh at me, get angry, and such...

Yes; I think I prefer to talk to you guys than talk to my parents about any of that, and my other relatives probably don't want to hear it because it would depress them. My mother is too serious and condescending and you get embarrassed talking to her sometimes. I feel like I have to be careful what I say around her. I feel like she's analyzing everything to make sure it's legal and moral and all that s**t. She's probably reading this, but I don't care.

Some things I'd rather not admit to people I see frequently. I just don't want them to have those things in mind whenever they see me.

I used to say: "strangers are your best friends."

Yeah I feel very uncomfortable when talking to my family about any of this stuff, so I avoid it.

Occasionally I will attempt to bring it up with..but they have such across the board ignorance and/or denial on the subject even though they themselves are not the most neurotypical parents in the world....They use the term "depression" as a blanket prognosis for all of our neuro-issues....this is mainly pertaining to my (very AS-ish) mom...and me...since I am alot like my mom....It is easier not to talk too fully in depth about stuff like that.

My family are useless for anything of significance. Your closest associates are the ones in the best position to use information about you against you. I tell them nothing, and if I do, it is only to trivialize it to the point of making it silly to think further of it.

I would never talk to my family of anything significant. My father would either ridicule me or tell me why something he did/does/could do would be better. My mother would just deny it or tell me she was interested/cared (but would be lying). My brother doesn't even bear mention.
Basically, my family is a dead loss. It's not that I feel comfortable with other people, it's just that anything at all is better than they are.

I can't talk to my family about anything that is bothering me, nor strangers in real life.

Yes, in some ways I am more open and comfortable around strangers than family members.

I feel more comfortable talkin about my AS 2 my mates cos atleast they understand u where as ur parents they put u down n don't think positive.

Yes.

I am one of them. I've talked to one person on this site about my problems caused by my family because certain members of my family would not be willing to listen and, knowing from experience, would even be offended. There's another person I almost talked to about it, but got lazy and didn't relay the details to them. Speaking of which, if they are interested I probably will.

I learned at a young age "not to complain" because defying such a rule resulted in punishment.

My step mom is very nice though; she's not like the rest of this family. My sister has(thankfully) matured a lot, way more so than I have! But the rest? 'Children', just as they always have been(my sister uses that term 'children' to describe them, and it is quite fitting).