For me, it’s the near-universal social rejection. To a large degree, I’ve learned how to live with it, accept it, not blame myself or others too much. It’s not always a bad thing, either, or not as bad as it might seem… there are positives.
But it is easily the thing that adversely affect my life the most. Every group rejects me, eventually, if not immediately. Every friend becomes unfriendly, many work relationships are strained. Finding a way to be okay when it seems like everyone would rather you just go away.
Today, it feels more difficult than usual but I know I will feel better soon. I wish I had some ND friendships to help me recharge. It’s funny, I left a comment on another post on how to best deal with this kind of thing but, honestly, my capacity to be resilient is not so great rn. Hopeful it will be better tomorrow.
I think it’s just that people will listen to someone who’s charismatic and persuasive and wrong, but not me when I’m right and don’t feel like playing the social game, and that goes double if I’m challenging someone’s assumptions/opinions
People will stress out endlessly over something that’s never happened, while actively discounting me explaining something that actually happened, Or is in some cases actively still happening
And don’t get me started when I interrupt someone because I know what point they’re going to make, they get snippy, and then finish their useless statement and then just sit there with their mouth hanging open
Well, to be fair. that last one is an appropriate response you can expect… but yes agree being the person with no social influence teaches you that being correct is not so valuable in society, and that sucks a lot.