What is your relationship to your MOTHER?

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No; my mother had toxemia so her body was hostile to begin with. That, and doctors spoonfed her the common bull**** about "formula and cow milk is better anyway".

No; my mom's been on antidepressants her whole adult life, but she didn't take the counseling, etc. to actually deal with the problem - she thinks the drug is the solution. Needless to say her whole perception, outlook and attitudes to everything in life are badly warped - she's one messed-up woman.

Yes; she lives to work at her nursing job and to fight. Nothing else exists for her. It drove the whole family mad how whenever she opened her mouth it would always be one of those two things... always. [groan]

Yes; my mom spent so much money she was "forced" to go back to work before I was two, so I was dumped on neighbours and friends in her constant absence. I imagine as a baby, she probably left me in a crib to cry a lot too....

I was for a little while but apparently I was too violent, so that might count as a "no".

Yes.

No.

No.

Breastfed - Yes, for 3 years I believe it was
Emotionally stable - Not really
Distant, cold, aloof - Somewhat
Emotionally abandoned as infant - Don't know

I was breastfed.
My mother was the most rational, decent person I ever met.
We weren't touchy huggy, but we liked being around each other and went to sewing conventions, art shows, and gardens together, and shared books with each other and laughed a lot.

I breastfed my autistic daughter for 18 months. I could not figure out why she wasn't as fun to play with as the older child for over three years.
I breastfed my asperger's son for seven months. I would have for longer but I went into the hospital with kidney failure.
I breastfed my NT son for 9 monthes. He and I are collaborating on some novels and having fun doing it.
Birth order is NT first, autistic second, and because she was so hard and violent I wasn't going to have anymore but oops came the asperger's, the loving, oblivious child with the huge vocabulary. The one like me. And then we adopted two more, one with FAE, and I'm telling you, I would rather deal with autism than with fetal alchohol effect.

1) I was breastfed until I rejected my mother's milk at about 6months

2) My mother claims that she never suffered from any type of emotional disorder, but I (as well as others) strongly disagree. It is obvious that she has an anxiety disorder w/ some OCD-like tendencies. I am also positive that my father suffers from Asperger's

3) My mother was not cold, distant, and/ or aloof from me as an infant. However, my parents divorced when I was five years old. In addition, my mother was pregnant w/ my brother. After she had my brother, she went back to school and work FT. So, I was always left w/ a nanny and any spare time my mother had was spent w/ my brother. I definitely suffer from abandonment issues. Before my parents divorce, I was the center of both of their worlds. When my mother left my father, she moved very far away from him. Therefore, I was only able to see him a few times a year. I feel that I was not only emotionally abandoned by both parents, but physically abandoned too.

4) No

That is similar to my life. My parents divorced when I was 9 or 10. (Mom left him when I was 9 but the divorce didn't go through until I was 10). It just destroyed my whole world and that is when I first had depression. My dad moved half way across the US and I rarely had contact with him on the phone. My much older sister and brother had already moved away from home. My mom had to be at work before I got up for school so at the age of 10 up until I was 15, I had to get myself up for school and get ready in an empty house and walk to school by myself. Elementary school was only a block away, but my junior high and highschool were 1 mile away. I came home to an empty house too, because my mom worked long hours everyday to make ends meet for she and I. She was very tired when she got home so she didn't feel like interacting with me much. Sometimes on the weekends we'd do something fun. She paid for me to have art and music lessons for awhile. But the occasional weekend fun wasn't enough for me. I was very lonely and felt very abandoned in many ways.

don't know.
no,definitely not.
don't understand.
don't understand.

No no yes no
Not as a child, but later on in school I think she couldnt deal with my differences anymore.

Yes, I was breatfed up until about 14 months old.

My mother is anything but mentally stable. She has serious depression issues, hystrionic personality disorder, and her 6 children suffered from her Munchausen's syndrome. She is also the kind of woman who would buy a refrigerator if she were a eskimo. She's gullible, gets taken in on schemes, MLMs, all kinds of crap. She thinks she's the monst wonderful mother in the world though and can't understand why all 6 of her kids don't like her.

she was never cold or aloof, more like overbering, blubbering crybaby, and overly touchy-feely.

I was not abandoned as an infant, but seriousy neglected as an older child/teenager. I basically raised my 3 younger siblings from the age of 9, while Mom pursued this or that MLM scheme, my parents tried to work out their failing marriage, or mom drove us into bankruptcy with her compulsive shopping.

Nobodyzdream, I don't think you'll be able to prove your thesis.

lol, I'm lost on this one. I've already thought up a million more hypotheses, and am unsure which specifically you are referring to... Aw hell, nevermind-I really can't prove any of them, lol. I don't think I stated any thesis above, I was just making a mental observation connecting from things that recently happened in my classroom to what was posted. If anything, it was a random out loud thought, followed by personal experience. Nothing more, nothing less.

Seems to me that the best way to prove a thesis is via hyper-focused attention on every *law* applicable to the circumstances - physical, metaphysical, mathematical, natural, averages. How else do you arrive at conclusions unbiased? i.e. The Truth. Ya know? If it matters to you, go for it. Seek out what matters to you.....and step over or around the obstacles at every turn. They just slow ya down.

Funny thing is..i don't know..am afraid to ask whether or not i was breast fed. I assume so...

No...not mentally stable...had severe problems with depression...I have many memories of her crying and saying she wished she had never had children...or trying to jump out of the car while we were on the road..frequent meltdowns...on the good side, she is an artist and has always been very creative. I remember one time she built me this house in our living room out of brown paper.

I am sure that when she was capable, she wasn't cold distant and aloof...but she might have been at times perhaps, due to her constant mood swings.

I do suspect my mom to have alot of AS symptoms....

I don't know whether I was emotionally abandoned as an infant. I spent alot of time unsupervised as a small child...I remember feeling abandoned at times...but moreso when I was a little older...I don't know how it was when I was an infant...

Interesting topic, not sure I agree with the breastfeeding theory, but thought I would post my relationship as an NT (i think!) mother to a 13 yr old Aspie son...

Yes I breastfed him for 6 months, same as my NT son...I really enjoyed the closeness of this. I also rocked him to sleep in the daytime and sung to him, I made sure he was visually stimulated.

Am I mentally stable...well, I suffer from depression, have been on anti-deps on and off, currently off, feeling great. I think maybe I am a bit unstable, I was adopted and dont feel I had a great relationship with my mother, she is very selfish and not very loving.

Was I distant to my son, hard one this. My NT son requests hug and love from me and he gets it. My AS son did not, and because of this I probably backed off from him and gave him his space. Since reading on this site, I am trying to correct this and am going to him more, and he seems to want this. When he was young, I was keen to do things by the book (leave them when they cry at night), I didnt do this with my second son...I regret this, and would go back and change it if I could. Its always been a tough question for me,,,was I colder to him because he didnt seem to want to be close, or was I cold first, chicken or the egg???? I guess this kind of answers questions 3 and 4. As for physically abandoning him...I stimulated him constantly, he was hungry for learning, but maybe not emotionally enough.

yes, yes, no, no.

My largest problem with my mother is that she is too attached to me.

No, HELL no, yes and probably.