I think I would have been far better off growing up with a foster family all my life instead of my own biological family, because the treatment I received from my own immediate blood relatives was unparalleled barbarism. They absolutely refuse to ever admit they hurt me, never apologize, invalidate everything I say, and totally refuse to see me as a grown, capable adult. The kicker is, my parents have known autism was a thing since I was diagnosed a year or so after I was born, but their views to date towards the disabled and mentally ill are very unenlightened, and they don't ever bother reading the latest developments on autism, read nonfiction about autism written by autistics and experts, and don't bother at all to learn how to properly interact with autistics. They say "blood is thicker than water," but that's only true factually, very far from metaphorically.