Gypsy Rose Blanchard

So how are we labeling it that?

And maybe you can speak to that a little bit.

You know what's so interesting is when I was living in the abuse, I didn't even know that it was abuse.

I thought my mom's weird, my mom's overbearing, controlling.

It's like I didn't have the language to articulate what I was going through.

And there were people that I reached out to.

Everybody was like, well, why didn't you tell someone?

Why didn't you ask for help?

It was that I was saying things like, don't tell my mom this, but I'm telling you this.

Or my mom's a little controlling.

She's a helicopter mom.

But I didn't have the language to articulate, I'm being abused.

This is what's going on.

Right, exactly.

And so it's like my father, he didn't understand what Munchausen by proxy was before all this happened.

You know, obviously, to some degree, I think my mother did.

But as for myself, I didn't understand.

I never heard of Munchausen by proxy before.

It was not something that I ever read about, heard about, watched a TV show about.

So it wasn't until after being