Hi

I'm a 20 year old woman with Asperger's and I'm just wondering if this happens to other people on the spectrum.

The problem is that my family, my aunt and grandmother in particular, disregard my wishes. To explain it further, when they want to take a particular course of action on an issue and I give my view on the issue they ignore or dismiss it. It's incredibly annoying and makes me feel like crap (more so when I give in to their choice of action), not to mention that some of their choices aren't the best.

An example of this is today I was told to take three rugs out for the hard rubbish collection. I mentioned that my aunt wanted to take one of the rugs for herself and that two of the three rugs were near new (and that I wanted to keep them for when I moved into my own place). What happened next is my grandmother told me to take them out (as if she didn't hear me) for the hard rubbish collection because she wants to make space for when they put new carpets in (which would probably take place in the next few years time). What I ended up doing was taking the rugs out like I was told.

Does anyone have any suggestions for me to help get my point to be considered or even listened to?