Dear Retarded Username,
When I saw your user name, I felt so heartbroken and sad for you and for so many of us who have been labelled, mistreated by people were cruel, insensitive and are not very bright or emotionally intelligent given how they treat their fellow human beings. I am so sorry that this is how you see yourself and feel about yourself. I would like to share something and I am really hoping that you will reflect on this.
I did not.start talking till I was six years old. I was always bleeding and never smiled (I was raped from a very young age, was passed around and am autistic) - so the adults and certainly the children decided that I was "mad", bullied me, called me all sorts of names and treated me badly. I was always the "strange one" and didn't have a friend till I was a teenager - though I did have two classmates who spoke to me for 2-3 years between the age of 6 and 9. By the age of 12, a teacher had told my mother that I was "mentally retarded" and can remember the beating that I got out of this. By the age of 18, my college lecturer put me forward for some test and told me that I was on the top 1 or 3 per cent according to the Mensa test. This year, I found out that I was autistic and mentioned this to a work colleague who then asked me to teacher her something that she could not understand relating to work - I taught her and her exact words to me were "you are really clever, aren't you amd I would have never guessed that you are autistic) - a colleague I have worked with since 2018 and remember that she could not understand the problem that I had helped her with!
Now for the truth. I am not "mad", "mentally retarded", "strange", "highly intelligent", "really clever" - these are mere labels that other human beings pathetically stuck on me and it is their problem. It took me till my late teens or early 20s to realise that in the circus of life, there will be jokers, kind hearted people, actors, charlatans and people who genuinely care - it really is a circus. Even since this slow realisation, I still live a life of doubts but am constantly challenging myself and negative thoughts and some days I win and some days, I am the sad clown of the circus..,
It is a battle, but a battle that is worth fighting. I would appeal to you to rethink how you see yourself and even how you address yourself. You are a human being who deserves to be respected, loved, looked after and treated fairly - wr cannot make the world treat us correctly, but we can try and treat ourselves with self respect, self care, self compassion and work on ourselves. Please consider giving this a go.
I hope I haven't bored you and I hope that you are still reading this message - I hope that you give yourself that love, time.and chance. Whilst we are alive, let us try and give ourselves a fair go. Happy to chat anytime. If I have wasted your time or hurt you, I am really really sorry. Sending you lots of best wishes. Take care.
I feel it too, even on this website.
I am so sorry that you feel like this on here. How can we stop that or make it go away? Because this is one place which should be a safe space with live, understanding, acceptance and compassion.