Atsuko Okatsuka
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Just very brief, just for my mom to like recover from it.
And then we reconnected with my dad, reunited back in Japan.
Where in Japan?
So I was in Chiba, where Tokyo Disneyland is, Tokyo DisneySea.
Right.
And yeah, just live like a normal, chill life.
You know, my parents got divorced when I was...
Not even one yet.
My mom has schizophrenia and a lot of other mental issues.
Oh, wow.
And so she was very... My dad already had two kids from his first marriage.
Right.
And so my mom suddenly had to be in a foreign country with the schizophrenia kind of bubbling up, especially after giving birth to me.
She had to be a stepmom.
My dad was her first boyfriend.
She was in her 30s.
So a little later to start hearing voices and things like that.
Usually it's, I guess, in your 20s is when something like paranoid schizophrenia hits.
From what I am told, because, you know, I'm now talking with those siblings again.
They had a very traumatic time with her.