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- Aug 19, 2022
I haven't gone with my friend group on their last two vacations mostly because I was worried about my physical health. But it's been another year or so and I'm closer with most of them now. So I started talking about how I would like to go on the next trip. but I'm worried about x and y and z. I am totally independent- I just worry about people making fun of me, basically. They just said "If you've got all those problems I think you should just stay home." Twice in recent memory they just didn't invite me to something because of their perception that I couldn't enjoy it- they didn't even ask, even though it was painfully obvious that the whole group was going.
They are so hot and cold about it, I don't know what's my fault and what's all on them. I try not to get real political or assmad, but I do get pretty assmad that they seem to fall over themselves constantly to be accommodating to the autistic and mentally ill weirdos. A large part of their ideological beliefs is tolerance and being accommodating. But they have always been pretty shitty to me about my paralysis. I know it might kinda be my fault because I have not gone into great detail about the specifics of my disability and what happened. But 1) I don't think I should have to explain myself for them to be nice to me and 2) I feel strongly that they will make jokes and gossip about my past, telling people that I don't want to know, and offending me with offhand comments, if they know details.
I feel like I'm too stupid to resolve the situation. It's not a reddit moment IMO: this isn't a "throw all those people to the curb, fuck them all" thing for me. I want to become closer to them, and I know the limiting factor right now is that they are real weird about my disability. They don't know how to handle it (even though it really doesn't impact them at all) and they usually just pretend I don't exist if they think it'll get in the way of plans.
I have a really retarded plan. Two of them are hobby artists and I also consider myself an artist, but I haven't shown any of them any of my art because most of it is heavily personal. I've been making some extremely personal paintings, and I plan to just... show them it all at my house. I don't think they're capable of having serious sit-down conversations- they would instantly leave and gossip, and make jokes etc. But if they see serious works of art, I think they will actually take it to heart and see that it isn't a joke. Unless my art is shit and they laugh at it ig. But this is my best idea for how to get them to take me seriously. I'm doing this in a few days so I will tell you how it goes so we can all laugh.
They are so hot and cold about it, I don't know what's my fault and what's all on them. I try not to get real political or assmad, but I do get pretty assmad that they seem to fall over themselves constantly to be accommodating to the autistic and mentally ill weirdos. A large part of their ideological beliefs is tolerance and being accommodating. But they have always been pretty shitty to me about my paralysis. I know it might kinda be my fault because I have not gone into great detail about the specifics of my disability and what happened. But 1) I don't think I should have to explain myself for them to be nice to me and 2) I feel strongly that they will make jokes and gossip about my past, telling people that I don't want to know, and offending me with offhand comments, if they know details.
I feel like I'm too stupid to resolve the situation. It's not a reddit moment IMO: this isn't a "throw all those people to the curb, fuck them all" thing for me. I want to become closer to them, and I know the limiting factor right now is that they are real weird about my disability. They don't know how to handle it (even though it really doesn't impact them at all) and they usually just pretend I don't exist if they think it'll get in the way of plans.
I have a really retarded plan. Two of them are hobby artists and I also consider myself an artist, but I haven't shown any of them any of my art because most of it is heavily personal. I've been making some extremely personal paintings, and I plan to just... show them it all at my house. I don't think they're capable of having serious sit-down conversations- they would instantly leave and gossip, and make jokes etc. But if they see serious works of art, I think they will actually take it to heart and see that it isn't a joke. Unless my art is shit and they laugh at it ig. But this is my best idea for how to get them to take me seriously. I'm doing this in a few days so I will tell you how it goes so we can all laugh.