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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/External-Second-1882 on 2026-05-18 10:41:47+00:00.

F18 here, I found out I am autistic this year and since then my mental health got even worse.

I realized that I am not weird, I am just different and that really affected me in a bad way?

I feel alone, like it’s me against all the people I have around me.

All my life problems, every relationship I needed to end was because of my social struggles and my differences of thinking, It feels unfair.

Why I can’t be normal? Everyone dislikes me because I am so akward, I am tired from masking and tired from all those meltdowns I have in school.

My parents look at me with disgust, because they wanted a cute sweet daughter who would have rich social life and a boyfriend and many different things

Instead they got an autistic masculine lesbian who is a loser and a loner and doesn’t go out from her house. My mother HATES ME for that, she hates that she can’t relate to her friends who have super feminine beautiful daughters and go out

I feel like it’s my fault I feel this way and even my current girlfriend hated me before my diagnosis, she hated how akward I was and even ditched me for her NT friends.

I feel like it’s my fault that I am this way and I don’t know how to accept it.

Autism just makes my life a lot harder.