Gypsy Rose Blanchard

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

arrested that you know i'm sitting there having an attorney visit with my public defender and i'm just you know telling him all of this stuff still in my frame of reference of not having the language to explain what i was going through but he was able to get a lot of what was going on from medical records i mean the first thing that flagged it is i could walk

It's not like he had to dig and try to find this out.

It was pretty easy by just looking at the fact that I could walk and then kind of like where she could walk.

So how is this happening?

Because she's supposedly paralyzed.

Absolutely.

You know, that's a question that, you know, and that's a weight that I put on myself is that, you know, when I was a child, it's kind of like, okay, I'm helpless.

You know, there's very little that I can do.

And then once I became an adult, the power dynamic sort of shifts and the blame sort of shifts, I guess, even on my own shoulders.

It's kind of like a coulda, shoulda, woulda thing.