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Recent content by Cruella

  1. Cruella

    Hello!

    My life experience is odd in general. Sometimes I still feel like I did something very wrong to have been "caught" as a child, especially since I was a girl in rural nowhere.
  2. Cruella

    Hello!

    An old and damaging theory that autism is caused by lack of parental love, particularly lack of maternal love. Of course it isn't. 101 Dalmatians has so many different continuities. The animated versions are my favorite, too, and thank you!
  3. Cruella

    Any Problems Getting Diagnosis?

    Actually, friends figured it out before I did. They couldn't diagnose me, however. This was in the '90s before Pop Culture Asperger's became a cliche. I was officially diagnosed, but that came later. I may owe my diagnosis to having an autistic nephew and a horribly excellent memory.
  4. Cruella

    Hello!

    Hello, and thank you for approving my post.
  5. Cruella

    Hello!

    I am a first-generation autistic, as is my husband who presents differently from me. We are raising and have raised autistic and non-autistic children. When I was a child myself, I was "raised disabled" under the DSM-II, and it wasn't pleasant. My outdated diagnosis at the time was Minimal...
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