Im autistic and you cannot make me do something I don't want to do, or stop me if I want to do something. Is this common for other people with high functioning autism?
I feel like no one understands what i truly mean when I say this, and it makes me sound so "spoiled", but if I don't want to do something I won't do it. Even if i supposedly "have to" cause I don't. I don't have to do anything. And it sounds really bratty when I say it but I don't mean it like that because doing things people say I "have" to do gives me physical pain throughout my entire body and its PAINFUL and nobody understands what I mean. Like when I was younger and my parents would "make" me do chores and if I didn't they would take away stuff. And every-time I let them take away literally anything because I would rather sit there than do chores when they said too. And it's like I know I have to do it, but my brain is just like "no you don't"??? It is so hard to explain but I just want to know if anyone else experiences this.
Same thing with when I want to do something. If I actually truly want something or to do something there is NO stopping me from doing it.
I also want to say that I don't have trouble with this when I think the outcome is fair?? Like with school work I'll do it cause I get a grade for it and that can help my overall grade in the class. Or like I'm doing it to provide for myself (like working a job and doing what the job entails). I really have a problem with it when the outcome or "reward" is not pleasing or doesn't seem worth it. Like getting paid unfairly or having to do the same task again the next day and on and on and on with no end (like dishes, taking out the trash etc.) Like I hate doing them and it's not just a "ughh i don't want to" hate, it's like a burning passion of hatred for the task or job that I am "required" to do.