I have a disorder that is climate triggered in terms of sleeplessness and hyperanxiety. It begins approx. October and runs on until spring so effectively half the year. I still manage to work and raise my boy however albeit with more struggle I still push through as I have to.
This is why I work part time and work at home so I can manage it as best I can and I started self employment alongside raising my son.
Does anybody else get tired of others not getting it and just accepting it? I have a friend who keeps misunderstanding it and imagines it is loneliness. If I write to a mutual friend and the email is lengthy he thinks it is because I am lonely. He is in his seventies and I am 55. Is this an age thing without being disrespectful? I wrote a long email to another mutual friend as I like to be exact and thorough and once again he thought it was because I am lonely.
I find this very annoying and am feeling totally misunderstood.
I feel like not telling him anything now it has really got out of hand. He has also told somebody else we know I struggle in the winter as I am a single parent and have no family support. This isn't the reason as I have had this condition since I was aged 15 and I am sick and tired of re-explaining it over and over every single winter.
Xmas comes and they imagine I must be in bits as I have no family. This isn't the case whatsoever as I do not come from this region and just find it too English here and too limiting culturally at that time of year. I am not very excited by families as a person and never really have been. I find them claustrophobic. Of course I love my dear son who is 14 but I am very good in my own company. Whereas many people aren't.
I have known him 10 years in May and he still imagines these wrong things.
I think I will just limit the conversation in future as it has really got to a head. I am tired of repeating the same thing over and over.
It is a genetic condition and has zilch to do with circumstances. Any feedback anybody at all?
Also when I say I get raised blood pressure he thinks it is because I am stressed whereas once again it is genetic. I drink parsley tea daily which helps and take a tablet from the GP but blood pressure and asperger's are linked and it is nothing to do with 'being stressed'.
Sick and tired of being misunderstood. Perhaps that age group without sounding ageist is hopeless at understanding invisible impairments??