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[quote=Anonymous]I believe she had trauma in her life from her mental illnesses and not coping with them well. I do think my parents did work very hard to give her proper support and medications. She had a very bad relationship with my dad especially before they stopped speaking. My other siblings and I agree that my dad is a very difficult person to be around. My sister and my dad were like oil and water together.

I am glad she is doing better and has supportive people around. I don't believe she was misdiagnosed. I know a decent number of people with mental illness and her diagnoses seem accurate to me. But she does seem to not be self aware and I do think that meds would help her function better. Her reaction when meeting her husband was that his family was so much better than ours and so much more supportive. But that's not true. It's the way she sees it in her head. My parents were supportive of her, but she really disliked my father because he was very strict. She doesn't like me much either, she was always jealous of me. I asked another sibling if he could think of anything I ever did wrong or unkind to her and he said no. She had a very hard time growing up because her behavior was very concerning to other people, I won't go into all the details here.

She doesn't read social situations well. Her MIL doesn't seem to like my sister very much from my interactions with her. She never seemed happy about the marriage. She makes passive aggressive remarks about my sister and I feel she doesn't think my sister is good enough for her son. So I think in her head she was rebelling and doing her own thing and being independent and she's chosen a "better family" who is "closer" and "more normal" but I feel like she doesn't really read the situation because of her autism.[/quote]

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