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[quote=Anonymous]It's just unclear what the OP wanted here. The explicit question was, how did it turn out for your mentally ill family member who had a baby? Fair enough, I have many examples. I have a family member with bipolar who raised a now-adult son. She has been given the best care available and been supported endlessly by her husband for 40+ years. She was employed, raised two kids, and in a strong relationship for most of her life. Now elderly, she is a terrific grandma.

I got negative stories too. The issue with OP is that she gave a lot of extra details that show all she really wanted was validation and confirmation of her view along the lines of " how irresponsible of your mentally ill sister to have a baby, how terrible," and etc. Also her details of "on the spectrum" and "electroshock therapy" and " in institutions" and " on lithium" and "violent" ... ugh, I am just not sure. The OP is what you call an unreliable narrator.

The unreliable narrator makes you believe a story is about one thing, but really it is about something else. The unreliable narrator also gets you to abandon moral principles, such as the idea that disabled people have rights. The good readers in this thread picked up on all of that.[/quote]

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