Hi sinking,
thank you!!!
i admit i see things a little differently from a standard adult, but im not crazy as they think. im just not them. im just me.
I'm not so sure there is such a thing as a "standard adult", everyone will have some different views, perceptions, opinions. Perhaps it's more your family and some people around you telling you "this is the way you
should behave/
should be".
But if you have a "picture" in your mind

then you know that different can be
good, right? Very good!! Different can open new experiences, new ways of thinking, spark individuality/seeing things in new
and better ways.............IMO the world would be
so boring if everyone was in the realm of "standard". So respect!!!
And let's take that "just" out of "im just me". Want you to be saying "I'm ME" and be proud of it!!!
And by the sounds of it there are ways that they hurt you that you can't avoid, but what about the other ways............maybe you/we can make them hurt a little less???
Like if they're blaming you for something that's not your fault/you can't help or saying hurtful comments.............well
you know the truth/"the bigger picture" right, even if they
aren't listening to you, and
that's the most important thing. If they want to believe something else then that's up to them, as long as
you know/
you hold onto what you know. Let
that give you strength,
doesn't matter about the rest.
And if they're being dismissive of your thoughts/saying you're wrong..........well maybe see it as
their beliefs, maybe they live in a "different world", and everyone will have beliefs based on their own experiences...........but
that's alright because
you know that there
are people who
are going to agree with you, right?? It might not change the way they talk to you but at least
you know that there
are people who do "get it/
you" even if "they" don't.
And maybe there are reasons for the way they're treating you e.g. they don't want to recognise how bad things are for you, they don't know what to do to help so they're dismissing things, they feel guilty for not having done more, they're being "over" protective, they're scared that if they don't exert all this control you're not going to "try",
they have their own problems.
Some of those things you
might be able to confront them with and resolve issues, some you won't but maybe look for some compromises with them/try to negotiate some things with them, just while you have to be there.
I know it probably sounds unfair, and it probably is, but just to try to get
something/s from them, and to make it a little easier on you???
Just don't stop feeling, thinking, being
you in all of that though, even if you can't show it all the time,
it matters!!!!!

Alison