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Having Children

Catlover

This is specifically for females, but males can answer too if they wish….

If you were diagnosed as a child, did you still want and have children when you grew up? Or did you choose not to have any?

And for those with children, who were diagnosed in middle age, do you think you would have still wanted children if you were diagnosed earlier?

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  • in reply to Desmond79

    Very similar life situation to yours, Desmond, except Ive never had the slightest wish to be a parent - probably more the opposite really. Or at least a strong  intuition since childhood that it was for other people, not me, as a matter of design.  I do love my nieces and nephews, and if circumstances ever required me to become a full time ward for any of then would consider taking that on despite how much it  would impact on my need for a lot of solitude and recovery time from the sensory overload of the day. Ive looked after them  and had  my nephews stay over  a few times in recent months (practicalities around their parents’ separation) and their demands/needs  during every second of the waking day are a good sample if the realities of properly caring for children. People’s ability to do that unceasingly for two decades or whatever is incredible to me - but its what keeps the world  going