Hi this is my first time here. Just posted a reply on another thread but realise I maybe should have started a new thread here.
i have two children who have an autism diagnosis (boy 23, girl 16). I belong to a family of four sisters and our mother is 88. I recently toyed with the notion that our elderly mother may be autistic. Having two children with asd I think I am more familiar with autistic symptoms than my other 3 sisters, two of whom have no children. In a recent conversation with my sister who does have 4 adult children, one of which has recently self assessed and diagnosed as autistic, we entertained the notion that possibly all of us are somewhere on that spectrum including our mum.
In recent tv documentaries which explore autism I could relate particularly to what was said about masking being that I think me and my sisters have all struggled over the years with mental health issues, and so on.
my question really is, does anyone here have any experience of an elderly parent with undiagnosed autism? My mother has struggled all her life with high anxiety which is now off the scale. She’s really not in a good place with depression and I wonder if there is something we can do to help. She’s on all sorts of medications.
