Depression Support Group
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I'm sorry to read about what you're going through. I don't have kids yet - haven't made it even to marriage yet, haven't met anyone special. Some men have called me "weird" to my face - it's the autism, it makes me sort of stand out. At least I know I've got ASD now so can begin to get to know myself, even though I'm in my 30's.
Abusers are manipulators as well as sick-minded. You and me still have and own our good souls.
Take care of yourself
Could be PART of the problem.
Being recently diagnosed, do your parents know?? I am wondering if now that there is a diagnosis, they would have a better understanding ... and more sympathetic.
>>ideas/techniques I can try that will help turn my mind away from the flashbacks of what my parents have yelled at me? It all still torments me and they should never have behaved this way towards me.... they say they can't remember
The best thing I can think of is family counseling. It is recommended when there is a chasm between family members.
Scaredandafraid - thanks, you're right about surrounding myself with positive people. I forget to be kind to myself.
WanderingVet - thanks for your reply. Yes my parents know about the ASD, and it's only recently I've begun to actually get to know myself. They knew I was different as they told me, but it was me who asked my doctor to send me for an ASD diagnostic interview and me who self-referred for a diagnosis of depression..... very easy to feel angry with the parents for sitting back and not looking into all this. They didn't know what ASD was but knew I was different..... Regarding family counseling my mother has already refused.... she says "I'm not doing that" - she buries her own childhood traumas, and therefore can't take on my traumas and gets defensive. It's cowardly that she's too stubborn to try family counselling..... perhaps because it will stir up a trauma she had when a kid that she's chosen to bottle up for decades? I've grown up with two angry and depressed parents.