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Autism and gaslighting.
A thread.
A thread.
I don't even know what gaslighting was until recently. Yet it happened to me throughout my childhood, throughout my studies and throughout the 13 years I spent in my first teaching job. It is mostly unintentional. Some people even think they are helping. But it still happens.
Now gaslighting happens as a parent too. He's just a boy, he's just spirited, you're overthinking it, he's fine. He's only 3. He's young for his year group. He's only 4. He'll settle down. He's only 5. He's just full of energy. He's only 6.
You mother her too much, she's fine, there's no problem in school, just be firm with her, it's in your mind, she can do it when she wants to, she's just making a fuss.
And so it goes on. But I won't let my children suffer how I did. I won't let them grow up not understanding their own neurology. I won't let them be told that their experience of reality is wrong. I will be strong.
