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10 Things I Learned Impersonating My Mom
Don’t worry, she knows.
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UPDATE - 06/24/24: I just got banned the forum I discuss in the article without explanation of which rule(s) I broke and the moderators of said forum have all blocked me, which concludes my almost year-long experiment! Read on to find out more.
This year, in the midst of executive dysfunction and being a new grad student (which is my shitty excuse as to why I’ve failed to post here for a while), instead of dressing up for Halloween, I started pretending to be my mom on an online autism parenting forum. While some things did not surprise me, many things caught me pretty off-guard. Overall, it has been a fascinating emotional rollercoaster ride of sadness, anger, befuddlement, and amusement. Here is a summary of what I’ve learned, in no particular order. Let me know in the comments if you think I should come clean about who I really am.
1. Yes, the parents are really all they’re cracked up to be according to many autistic adults.
I’ll start with a disclaimer that no, they aren’t all the same and most of them do genuinely love and want nothing but the best for their children, but many of the autism moms…
