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aspies in a conservative family not accepted

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I am totally new at this , so forgive my start . I am in my 50th , working hard , sometimes very success full , some times struggling for a while .
The relation with family has always been tense , but as long as everybody was acting like everything is fine , things kind of went smooth . Every year or so a blow up , a year of non speaking terms and then back to pretending , up to the next blow up .
After going thou this for 30 years or so , I demanded that we talk .
Result , the family doesn't want anything to do with me anymore , wills are changed , so I don't get anything anymore , changed phone numbers and e-mail etc . And they don't understand why I am mad .
I have been very upset about this for over half a yea or so , and I start to get over it , but I am still kind of unsure how to move on from here and how to emotionally deal with this the rest of my life .
It is a work in progress .

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Hmmm, sounds very rough indeed. I wonder how much of it could actually be put down to aspergers?? Lots of potential for misunderstandings to arise, and I have had similar experience (but not as extreme) with my family. A lot of the former trouble has been blamed on me having aspergers (and some members of my family want to pin me with bipolar too!!).

Still, I wonder just how convenient it is to be able to put down "everything" on my condition, when other people can have problems/conditions of their own which could equally be the cause of the tensions. Scapegoating isn't pleasant.

Hope things smooth over for you...
 
Sometimes we must break (or are forced to break) with our families and start anew with new families. Let them go their way. Life is too short.

I am not really close to my family (we are all scattered over the country). I don't know what will happen when my parents die as they seem to be the glue holding things together. If my siblings have a message for me they send it through Mom and Dad rather than talk to me direct. I quit letting that bother me a long time ago. They have their life and I have mine. Yes, I wish it could be different but I don't know how. The situation has gone on too long to change.
 
I see both Tarragon's & Compass' viewpoints on this one. Your family seems to have a slew of problems in communicating that have nothing whatsoever to do with you being an Aspie. During that last critical discussion that led to the rupture, did things get ugly & explosive? As far as them disinheriting you, that is a low blow. Here in QC there are laws that make it very hard for family members to disinherit someone maliciously or use the potential to disinherit as a tool to control someone's life choices. THis is a tyrannical & cruel thing to do. Since you say this conflict business is part of a long-standing family pattern, is it possible that, given some cooling off time that things will become less hostile?

Sometimes, too, as Compass said, one just has to accept the way things are. Wishing they were different is one thing but it takes several people committed to working problems out in order to change things but if they're unwilling, little can be done.

Having someone or something to blame problems on has always been a convenient mental pitfall in our specie. We blame ALL our problems on something that absolves US of having to admit that our own choices & conduct is the principal culprit. Remember, too, that although you're an Aspie, it doesn't naturally follow that they're the sane or the healthy ones. they may have worse social skills, be Narcissistic, controlling, mentally disturbed in a million ways, have addiction issues, tolerance issues, cognitive issues & let's not forget plain old $#!TTY character! When I look at the emotional muckmires many NTS have dig themselves into, I'm glad to be an Aspie!
 

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