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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My mother doesn't take medication, but she has been institutionalized on multiple occasions--once, for like 3 months while I was in elementary school.  She doesn't take medication because she's functional in the sense that she doesn't run into traffic naked, and secondly she doesn't want to.

I grew up with a woman who would argue with inanimate objects, thought the federal government spied on her (classic, right?), thought that her actions controlled the weather, and was such an obsessive germophone she scrubbed her hands with Comet rather than regular soap, and caused horrible chapping.  There's more, but that's some of it.

I started to think she was not normal only after I left home for college.  I didn't fully realize that she was dysfunction junction until I got married and DH provided some dispassionate third-party insights.

Now, I realize she's as loony as a fruitcake, not just "eccentric" as I have thought.  I'm in my 40's.[/quote]

I'm the PP of the above.  *germaphobe*  Also, she was physically abusive in a very bad way, although I don't have any permanent physical scars.  Funny how that part's like an afterthought to me.[/quote]

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