Holiday strategies?
I had my second meltdown during the holidays yesterday, and although my cousins are leaving today my neice and nephew are staying till new years day (which we're spending in another city with my aunt).
I feel like a bad person because I do love seeing everyone, but the way things are going i just can't handle it. There are no plans and everyone's just winging it or changing things at the last moment, my aunt recently remaried so there are strangers around, I'm staying at another house because my mom volunteered me to dogsit over the holidays (which I TOLD her I didn't think I could handle along with all the social stuff) so I haven't slept in my own bed in over a week (half the cousins are staying with me so no quiet here), people are watching tv, playing piano, and talking IN THE SAME ROOM (how the heck...) and the like in EVERY room so there's no quiet places, they keep getting irritated with me when I cry (my sister turns the radio up when she's mad with me having an overload. GAH.)and I'm spending my time in the back bathroom with the door locked and the lights off, rocking and reciting Pi. It doesn't help that half the family doesn't know or just doesn't understand I have Aspergers. They just think I'm "paculiar".
Does anyone have any strategies, or ways to empliment a schedule in a chaotic situation? I have another week and a new years party to survive and I'm not seeing how I'm going to manage. Please don't make suggestions for my family, they don't deserve to have to cut back their celebrations because of me.
I feel like a bad person because I do love seeing everyone, but the way things are going i just can't handle it. There are no plans and everyone's just winging it or changing things at the last moment, my aunt recently remaried so there are strangers around, I'm staying at another house because my mom volunteered me to dogsit over the holidays (which I TOLD her I didn't think I could handle along with all the social stuff) so I haven't slept in my own bed in over a week (half the cousins are staying with me so no quiet here), people are watching tv, playing piano, and talking IN THE SAME ROOM (how the heck...) and the like in EVERY room so there's no quiet places, they keep getting irritated with me when I cry (my sister turns the radio up when she's mad with me having an overload. GAH.)and I'm spending my time in the back bathroom with the door locked and the lights off, rocking and reciting Pi. It doesn't help that half the family doesn't know or just doesn't understand I have Aspergers. They just think I'm "paculiar".
Does anyone have any strategies, or ways to empliment a schedule in a chaotic situation? I have another week and a new years party to survive and I'm not seeing how I'm going to manage. Please don't make suggestions for my family, they don't deserve to have to cut back their celebrations because of me.