A few days ago somebody online asked if people think I have an accent

[conuly]

This is a fairly common thing for autistics to have, a sort of developmental foreign accent syndrome, and I've got it too. (So, I think, does my mother, but she has an alternate explanation. Well, whatever the origin, she also is afflicted by people asking where she's from.) Interestingly, the further I get from NYC, the less people are likely to hear some strangely unidentifiable foreign accent in my speech.

Anyway, it's been a while since this came up in real life, but what do you know, just yesterday one of the people at the doctor's office asked when I was there with my mother!

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Comments

[shehasathree]

cf. also hypermobility-related diagnoses (which, fwiw, seem to have considerable overlap with autism-type diagnoses). So many women report figuring out they had a problem/getting a diagnosis only after their kid/s did!!

[fred_mouse]

Yes - I keep hearing this. Also ADHD (I have a friend in her mid-40s currently investigating this as a diagnosis not just for one or more of her children, but for her).

For me, people starting talking about hypermobility online, I went 'oh, that would be this and that and the other', which caused me to talk to a friend about it and it turned out that this is part of her area of expertise, and she gave the kids a once over and then a strongly worded discussion about how to look after themselves so as to not have problems as adults, so it can go both ways. And despite that, it was only this week that I suddenly realised that it isn't just youngest who has shoulder issues as a result - the problems I had in my 20s are probably hypermobility linked, and my mother used to regularly dislocate her shoulder as well.

[shehasathree]

no spare brain for coherent utterances, but: +111

[fred_mouse]

:}

[shehasathree]

Rregularly dislocating stuff: not part of the normomobile experience. ;p

<3

[fred_mouse]

:}

Yeah. But somehow, I had never put what I knew about my mother in with what I know about me and the kids!