Friend who drives let me walk home in rain?

[Tobythecat]

I have ASD and really bad sensory processing/overload issues. I don't work and was very isolated but 6 months ago I started going to a coffee morning for people with anxiety. A lady and her daughter (who has become a good friend) go there (the mum drives) but the mum doesn't like to offer me lifts , which is fair enough. I usually walk, but today it was raining. I live about a 10 minute walk from the venue but my support worker offered me a lift but he left the coffee morning early. I was expecting to walk home but was surprised that my friend and her mum didn't offer me a lift as it was pissing down, but the daughter gave me an umbrella instead. They were going the other way so it would've taken them 5 minutes out of their way to drop me home. Her son also has ASD but he is more functioning than I am.

AIBU to think it was a bit mean of her? I feel like a burden anyway and don't like to ask for lifts as last time I asked she said she was going shopping (I get sensory overload in the coffee morning and find it difficult to walk back/cross the road as i'm so disorientated from all the socialising and bright lights).

@PenelopeFlintstone ok, so one, one-off lift (albeit when you have plans in the other direction), is nothing.

What if it was ten of those lifts? Twenty? Every single time?
What about if it was thirty minutes out of your way each way? An hour? Two?

Where would you draw the line (and don't say "never", because that's nonsense). And whatever that is, that's your line. Mine is different - but no better or worse.

I have to say that when my anxiety was bad, if someone had asked me for a lift I would have panicked at the thought of having to make polie small talk, panicked about having said no, and then left the group. Please think about the effect even such an innocent request can have on people.