• Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 days ago

    My people.
    I feel a kinship with each and every one of you.

    I’ve always had a rocky relationship with my mom. It took years to just not care about her.
    After she died, amongst her things I found evidence that multiple people had told her to get me tested for ADHD when I was a child. She opted not to, but after I graduated college 10 years after my peers, she told me not that she was proud of me, but that when my sister was a kid, people had told her to get her “tested” (she didn’t elaborate), but instead looked me square in the eyes and said “but I knew none of my babies were retarded!” It’s clear the story wasn’t about my sister.

    I might actually hate her more now than I did when she was alive.