Her Mom Diagnosed Her With Autism As A Child Even Though Her Mom Had No Business Doing This
As a 19-year-old, you don’t expect to find out that your mom pathologized your behaviors all your life and kept you in the dark about parts of your medical history.
But that’s what happened to one young woman. “My mom abruptly told me she’s convinced I have “high-functioning” autism, and she has been since I was little,” she revealed.
However, her mom never got her tested because she didn’t want to face the stigma associated with diagnostic labels. But her mom continued to treat her for autism secretly.
“Growing up, she took me to the homeopathic remedy “doctor” once and would never tell me why. She would always give me these homeopathic chalk pills when I was upset and play my emotions off all the time (never would listen to me or respect me).”
For the past 13 years, she has had to take the same homeopathic pills while her mom confided in friends and family about her daughter’s unofficial diagnosis.
Unfortunately, her mom is prone to making snap judgments despite evidence against her beliefs. Her at-home diagnosis relied on only three factors, the daughter shared.
“She argued that I have autism because I’m very smart, I like tactile stuff, and I don’t like loud noises.”
But the daughter didn’t experience any other typical symptoms of being on the autism spectrum, such as difficulty reading social cues or constant “stimming” (self-stimulation through repetitive behaviors). Ironically, her mom demonstrates far more autistic traits than she does.
For example, food texture and color are extremely important to her. She also fidgets and picks at her skin, and if her home environment wasn’t exactly how she wanted it, she would make the family move houses.
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The daughter has looked into getting tested for autism so that she can confront her mom on the issue one way or another.
But the testing is expensive, and she honestly doesn’t think she’s on the spectrum. In reality, the central issue is how her mom treated her growing up and the secret that informed her obsessive behavior.
“In the case that I do actually have autism, I can guarantee you that she never took the time to read up on the spectrum, support me with actual treatment, or respect me,” She shared.
So it sounds like the pair have a lot to work out and could both benefit from some processing in a therapeutic setting.
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