My sister knew mom was odd

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29 Jan 2020, 2:03 am

My older, NT sister has been opening up a bit, and revealed that even before school, she had noticed that our AS mother was uniquely unemotional and hard to please compared to all her friend's mothers. I didn't think she was outside the bounds of "normal," which was her own firm opinion as well.

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29 Jan 2020, 4:32 am

I do think autistics and their relatives miss or deny their autism because their autistic traits are not atypical in the family they were raised in.

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29 Jan 2020, 6:23 am

Yep. You don't know what you don't know.

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29 Jan 2020, 7:07 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:

I do think autistics and their relatives miss or deny their autism because their autistic traits are not atypical in the family they were raised in.

Yes, thats the case for my family

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