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Which of your parents do you believe is/was/might be/could have been autistic?

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I think probably my mother but with a lot of other stuff going on.

However, if so she was under sensitive to noise etc which, from my reading of this forum, is more unusual to 'over'sensitivities.

It could have been my father.

The jury is out (and always will be as they are both deceased).

How about you?

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  • I think my dad was like me - high functioning and relatively low support needs. He died 15 years ago and I miss him all the time.

    He worked in the armed forces, and then once retired from that, for the armed forcces as a civilian. Both provided him with the structure and consistency he needed I suppose.

    He was very empathetic, like me, and was very tidy and had a place for everything, like me.

    I believe my mother to be a narcissist - we have had zero contact barring one brief phone call in nearly twenty years. She upset and angered everyone in the family and played us all off against each other. So effective was she in her manipulations that I have no contact with my remaining sibling or any biological family. She isolated us all.

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  • I think my dad was like me - high functioning and relatively low support needs. He died 15 years ago and I miss him all the time.

    He worked in the armed forces, and then once retired from that, for the armed forcces as a civilian. Both provided him with the structure and consistency he needed I suppose.

    He was very empathetic, like me, and was very tidy and had a place for everything, like me.

    I believe my mother to be a narcissist - we have had zero contact barring one brief phone call in nearly twenty years. She upset and angered everyone in the family and played us all off against each other. So effective was she in her manipulations that I have no contact with my remaining sibling or any biological family. She isolated us all.

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