Gypsy Rose Blanchard

He was like, why isn't Gypsy in school?

You need to put her in school.

I really just don't think she's as sick as what you claim.

She's perfectly fine.

She plays with my kids.

And he just put her on blast.

Well, at the age of five, I was still seeing many doctors.

The list of ailments was not as long as it was, obviously, later on in life.

But I had, supposedly, a seizure disorder.

Supposedly, I had leukemia, hearing impaired, vision impaired, muscle weakness.

So all of these things, I was still in GI problems, gut problems.

So all of this was happening even at the age of five.

The thing about my mother's side of the family is they don't really recognize mental health problems.

You know, obviously in the 90s, 80s, 90s, mental health problems was shrugged off and considered you're weird.

You're, you know, they put you in a box and in a category that you're just crazy.

um instead of it being addressed with therapy um and so that's the kind of box they just put my mom into even you know her own family put her in that box of like oh she's just weird she's just crazy um and so it's like i think that they had a hint that yeah this is not normal but there's a lot of things that was going on in that family that was not normal

I mean, as far as my mother goes, she was supposed to be on medication.

She was supposed to be on medication because she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

um and i remember like there was a therapist that would come to the house of counselor um and then when we moved from louisiana to missouri she stopped seeing the therapist and she stopped being on medication um

I remember growing up with a mom that said, do you hear that?