is bullying normal?
I am posting this as I really need some advice.
I have been over many years building up my portfolio of website and graphical work. I have been involved with IT related matters for many years, but one thing has happened to me over and over, which I am struggling with.
Put simply, I have had violent threats directed towards me, more than once- most recently, this was someone I was working with, who said in no uncertain terms (after being abusive to me) that he had been 'talking down' people in the local community against hurting me. This was in email, i have it in writing.
This 'community' im talking about is a music related one. Which, I think, is actually very toxic, and has driven other people over the edge. Be that as it may, I am obviously an adult with Autism, and people are aware of that. However, the threats and abuse i have recivied are next level stuff. Some of it involving people coming up to me in the street and shouting at me, as well as being told where I can and cant go by others, with all sorts of threats attached (some of it legal).
The point is this really. I might disagree with people at times, but I do not in any way deserve to be treated this way becuase I am neurodivergent, and not originally from the city I live in (depsite living here for 18 years). I do have some support, but threats of violence and intimidation have caused me serious upset and limited what I can do, and where I can go, and I dont feel safe. Its not paranoia, if they really are out to get you- and in my case, this is true.
add into that, the strguggles i have had in the workplace- some of it discriminatory and illegal (but thats another story) it just makes life seem not worth living at times.
I just wonder if other people with Autism Spectrum Disorder have had any similar experiences and what you did about it? I feel so alone becuase I am, and stuck not being able to reconcile, I am simply treated as someone deserving of isolation, and no consideration whatsoever.
I am sometimes very fourthright in my views- but this is simply who I am, and its not any reason to recive this sort of treatment I dont think. Maybe Im wrong?
