the challenges with setting boundaries as an autistic person is that i won’t know boundary needed to be set until days, weeks, months had passed and i fully processed the situation. and by then it’d be too late to set boundary. hence my directness at random points.
Isn’t it ironic that so many autistic people are people-pleasers, yet all too often other people are displeased by our efforts and even less receptive to our efforts than they are to other people’s less extensive efforts?
i feel as if i woke up in the box again. 4 walls so different from the ones i grew to love. i blink myself awake and youre gone all over again. 😔 i had found some acceptance these last few weeks months. where did that suddenly go?
The Autistic experience of:
1) FINALLY getting clear directions on what to do in a social context!
2) But then the allistics don't follow the directions and tease me for being "rigid."
3) So I try to bend the rules with the allistics but somehow break them wrong & get in trouble.