Thank you. Thank you so much for writing this. My brother has aspergers and he seems to think that other people are being an asshole even when he's doing something without realizing it. My parents only try to correct him when he is really going out of line and pissing him off by yelling at him and otherwise just joke about it, saying it's just him. We haven't been able to afford any therapy for him since he was diagnosed at 9 (he's 19 now and I'm 16) and I'm barely able to do anything since I struggle with depression we could only afford to diagnose. Honestly I fall into the habit of talking to him the way my parents do instead of talking to him like a person and my brother and trying to help him out with me having to dealing with my own mental illness, even if he tries to help me out. I just hope I can maybe help him out and maybe drag both of us outside more in front of people. He really has for the last few years been literally spending most of his waking hours in the same chair in front of his computer and my parents have given up on trying to help him out. I'm happy that you've made yourself better. Reading what you wrote as well as everyone else is helping me understand my brother, and it's giving me hope that I can help him help himself. Really, thank you so much for writing this. (sorry for the wall of text, it's 2:21 AM, I'm tired, and punctuation be dammed)