Mother thinks I have prader Willi syndrome

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She keeps saying it's a "spectrum" and you don't have to have every single symptom. She's adamant I have it because I was a "floppy baby" and now "failed to thrive" (the first time I have ever heard of that about myself). I told her the major symptom and the main thing about it is the excessive appetite an inability to feel full. But no, you don't need all the symptoms apparently. She will only let me have a DNA test from 23 & Me, not one from a doctor and I don't particularly trust 23andMe. She did not even know what prader willi was until she saw a CSI episode about it. (She's gotten lots of things wrong because her first exposure to them was a CSI episode and thinks that's how all those people are in real life). She used to look at the local foster kid website as if she were looking at puppies on Craigslist and some of them had prader Willi. As we were watching Gibson and Co remove content from the man's stomach, my mom said, "Oh, that is what some of those foster kids have." She did not start saying I have it until recently and it's making me self-conscious about eating.

She's now saying I have a binge eating disorder. Because I ate two cupcakes. I did used to binge eat before I moved out. But after I moved out and was free to eat what ever I wanted and my mother wasn't around to limit my sweets or hide them, binging just didn't give me the "high" it used too. But now I'm afraid to eat because I'm worried she will say I have some kind of disorder.

First Pradi Willi syndrome also involves intellectual impairment. I don't know if every person with it also has it. You say you haven't binged on food since you have moved out. Maybe your binge eating is caused by stress and you eat when you are stress, not because you are hungry. People with pradi will always feel hungry and will never be satisfied with their food. They will never be full. Just imagine always living 24/7 being hungry and always having to count your calories and measure your food to be sure you don't over eat.

I don't know if you have an eating disorder or not, binge eating disorder is a thing. Not everyone who binges on food has an eating disorder just like not every underweight person has anorexia. But sadly anorexia and eating disorder is thing now people are tossing around at anyone who eats healthy and exercises and is skinny and think eating 1500 calories a day is anorexia and starving yourself.

Well, a quick read in Wikipedia and it fits some of my symptoms

Is it even possible to have "mild" Prader Willi? I think you either have it or you don't. I am pretty sure it does not come in a mild form.

I'm sort of cursed with low muscle tone and I'm an aspie. It happens quite a lot in Asperger's. That is why we slouch. It takes painful tension to stand straight.

Prader Willi syndrome is a chromosomal disorder, a deletion on the paternal chromosome number 15. If you don't have this deletion, you don't have PWS.

One can look in Wikipedia and find that they could possibly have every disease in the book.

Being hungry all the time does NOT mean you have Prader-Willi Syndrome.

What will Meerkat's mother come up with next?

That reminds me of the joke (could be in the dark jokes thread) about the hypochondriac who tried to diagnose himself from a medical journal and died of a misprint.