Saturday, 28 November 2009

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  Could My Mom Be The Source of my Aspergers?

  Last night, I was skimming through some facts about those with Aspergers or those with autism, and being the concerned child I am today, I read some facts about those with autism that reminds me a lot of my mom. Through this, I tend to believe that my mom has some form of autism or learning and social disability herself...and in turn, I have the aspergers. Either that or I can trace exactly who I got this autism from. Let me explain.

  One of the diagnoses (sic) I have read from an article is "They may have to line up their pencils before they can pay attention, or they may say the same sentence again and again to calm themselves down." I don't know anything about the pencils part, but my mom does have a habit of talking to herself and repeating thing over and over again in her mind, whether she is crying or she if heated up...as if no one hears her. And this is from a woman who often thinks I'm crazy when I talk to myself.

  Another thing the article said was "Some people with autism never learn how to talk." After reading more articles about my asperger's, they have been saying for a while that those with autism have trouble finding the right words to say things, have trouble explaining what is in their mind, or have a bit of trouble with being tact. Without question, that is my mom all the way.

  Each of the few articles I read has a few facts that remind me a lot of her. Even one of them says people with that have "extremely repetitive, unusual, self-injurious, and aggressive behavior". Even if my mom gets severely stressed about it, she does work like cooking a big meal this Thanksgiving (because according to plenty of people in the family, if it isn't done her way, it isn't done right). In result of going through what seems like too much trouble, she and my Dad continuously bicker about Lord knows what.

  I'm reading more stuff, but I have heard that sometimes, autism could be hereditary in some way. By that definition, I can't help but be convinced that my mom is the source of my level of autism.

  What do you think? Should I up and question her about this?

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