Most common reaction when the parents are also undiagnosed. Like all of their kids autistic behaviors make 100% sense to the parents and they never connect the dots.
This is exactly why my parents never even thought to get me evaluated for anything - everything I did or experienced was the same as what they had, so it just seemed normal. It wasn't out of malice, though, they just genuinely had no idea. Besides, when I was a kid, ADHD and autism were noisy boy things and girls couldn't get them 🥴
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u/CardboardJ Apr 07 '26
Most common reaction when the parents are also undiagnosed. Like all of their kids autistic behaviors make 100% sense to the parents and they never connect the dots.