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[quote=Anonymous]A friend once noticed the way my husband didn’t interact and pinned it autism but I didn’t know what that was. I thought he was just a bit shy around groups. When I grew up many people were just talked about as shy and I was told a lot of men are introverted so it made sense in a large group he wouldn’t be that extraverted. His family were very friendly to me for the first few years till it became obvious some of their children had mental illnesses that they would just write off and not treat. Eventually the mentally ill kids stopped showing up at family gatherings and it was just the kids without major issues and mine. Then dinner conversation’s became about nothing. Hours of just sitting around saying nothing and if they did talk it was always about happy memories from the past. They would just repeat the same conversations and make them slightly different. Never anything happy in the current situation. Never about their own kids or their jobs or anything about daily life. More lies whenever they were asked about their lives. I found out one of the sisters had a best friend who was in and out of jail and wasn’t coherent half the time. But all this transpired over about a 12 year period. When the kids were young up to about age 7 everyone could just shift to the kids and talk about how cute they were and we were busy with them so it wasn’t as noticeable. It was only noticed when the kids would go off and do their own thing and the adults stuck around the table. I would see how his family reacted and how he reacted and it was obvious something was off. [/quote]

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