Showcasing an increasingly common trend, local unwittingly but obviously autistic parent Michelle Bennet told her autistic child Cam Bennet that they are not autistic.
“Just because someone is a little quirky doesn’t mean they’re autistic! Everybody wants to be autistic these days! You’re not autistic!”
Michelle quickly adjusted the thermostat to a cooler temperature and then remarked that it doesn’t make sense for her to feel so warm.
“Anyway,” she said, “there’s no way that [Cam] is autistic! I’ve behaved in similar ways all my life. [They’re] just like me!”
Cam, 21, recently came out to their mother as nonbinary transmasculine, a fact which their mother has yet to affirm in any way whatsoever.
“Look, I played with Legos into my adulthood too. I still collect action figures. I talk for hours about all the comic book series I have loved for decades! None of that means I have a neurological disorder. Also, the nonbinary thing. Do you think I always felt like a girl? No! I’m not even sure what that means! But I deal!”
Michelle then excused herself to go to the bathroom, remarking that stomach issues have always been a common problem for her “for some reason.”
Cam was able to speak candidly while their mother was out of the room.
“Everything I know about the histories of Blink-182, Panic! at the Disco, and Fountains of Wayne, I have learned against my will from that woman. I’m sure it’s completely normal and not indicative of anything that she constantly stims to everything she listens to,” Cam remarked sarcastically.
Upon returning to the room and realizing music was being discussed, Michelle immediately started delving into the history of Blink-182 before pulling up “I Miss You” on her phone and jamming out on her air guitar.