Gypsy Rose Blanchard

I wish that my mom would have been caught early, early on.

Because...

If there could have been something that she got caught, a lie, something, I could have been removed from her care and put in the care of my dad.

And that would have avoided so much because...

You know, a lot of people, maybe not the, you know, the true supporters and the people in our community, but there are the naysayers that don't even acknowledge me as a survivor because they feel that I was diagnosed with microdeletion 1Q21.1.

And

They sort of say, well, you were sick.

You were a sick child.

Therefore, she didn't have Munchausen by proxy.

Or she was never formally diagnosed with Munchausen by proxy.

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.