My parents hate me and I have no job prospects. Is there any hope for me?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I don't know you're situation, but I do know that many people on the spectrum tend toward catastrophic thinking (assuming a worst case interpretation of their experience).  I would suggest to you to consider the possibility that your parents don't actually hate you they are just bad at relating to you and understanding what it is you need.  Likewise with your job prospects, you may be looking just at the obstacles and not on your strengths. Having worked as both a camp counselor and at a factory gives you experience in two very different domains, so that's a plus.  It's going to be hard for a while finding a job, but you have some valuable skills.  You may need some help though to make it work, and there are organizations out there to help people find jobs and become independent.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

First off, you probably are mistaken about your parents hating you. Love, especially parental love, doesn't involve uncritical support of everything you might want to do.

Second, if you are right about them hating you, you're probably wrong about it being because you have Aspergers.  Aspergers typically makes people irritating, not unlovable. So they might on occasion be irritated with you because of your Aspergers, but that wouldn't mean they hate you. There are far more plausible reasons to hate someone than they have Aspergers.

Last, but not least, lack of parental love is not sufficient reason to have no hope. However, being a poster here, or even worse, a moderator, is sufficient reason to be hopeless. 

[HillGoose]

brah u can't let anything stand in the way of ur destiny, whatever u decide it to be, figure it out then

[Technocracy Timmy]

Do you have access to mental health services?

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

have you considered getting a job?

lmao why do homeless people exist? just buy a house smh

To OP: Anyone who hates you for something like that isn't worth listening to. Yes, even if it's your parents.

[darklordoftech]

When I was 4-8 years old, my parents sent me to a “special needs” school with no vacations and that force-fed me. When I was 9-18 years old, my parents forbade me from talking to girls.

[Meclazine for Israel]

When I was 4-8 years old, my parents sent me to a “special needs” school with no vacations and that force-fed me. When I was 9-18 years old, my parents forbade me from talking to girls.

They just want the best for your welfare and the family as a whole.

The important thing is to correct your thinking and minimise your anxiety about what you think they want from you.

I understand though. I think after I finished my physics degree, I went home to relax, and my family said after 2 days "If you think you are going to lay around here, you have another thing coming."

I had a job two weeks later, and never moved home ever again.

So perhaps an interstate job is your best bet. I am sure things will return to some level of normality in the new year.

[Nightcore Nationalist]

I'm sorry to hear that.  I probably have aspergers to some degree although I was too afraid to confirm it.  I've spent a great deal of time and effort to conceal it and appear "normal" with mixed results.

When I was 4-8 years old, my parents sent me to a “special needs” school with no vacations and that force-fed me. When I was 9-18 years old, my parents forbade me from talking to girls.

Ouch.  That's my idea of hell.

[Frodo]

When I was 4-8 years old, my parents sent me to a “special needs” school with no vacations and that force-fed me. When I was 9-18 years old, my parents forbade me from talking to girls.

Why did they force-feed you?  And why weren't you allowed to talk to girls?  

[morgankingsley]

I know what it is like to be convinced your parents hated you. It feels like they only want to use you as a tool for their benefit. Thankfully I was proven wrong a few months ago when I started to get my life together a bit. They didn't hate me. They just hated the life I was living. I'm not in the situation you are in, but I get it

[Orser67]

I think that having Asperger's can make life really difficult, but there are people out there who have it and have successful careers. I'd look into either technology (e.g. software engineering) or some kind of trade (e.g. carpentry). It wouldn't be an easy path but it would (hopefully) beat being stuck at home with your parents.

[darklordoftech]

When I was 4-8 years old, my parents sent me to a “special needs” school with no vacations and that force-fed me. When I was 9-18 years old, my parents forbade me from talking to girls.

Why did they force-feed you?  And why weren't you allowed to talk to girls?  

I have no idea why the “special needs” school force-fed students. My parents said they were worried that I’d be traumatized by heartbreak.