An autistic woman’s mother has aroused shock and suspicion after going five minutes without a single comment about her daughter’s life choices, eyewitnesses have claimed.
Natasha Weaving, 34, met her mother Christine, 65, for brunch, expecting all manner of commentary on her hastily thrown-together outfit, inability to eat anything on the menu apart from plain pancakes and reluctance to attend her cousin Tricia’s baby shower. Instead, her mother just spoke to her like one adult to another, leaving Weaving to question everything she has ever known.
Weaving said: “I don’t like this sudden change. Usually, she’d be the first to turn my struggles into personal failings. But she doesn’t seem to care that my shirt is creased, or that the music in the café made me so anxious I tore my napkin into little pieces and sprinkled it onto the floor like confetti for the mice.”
“I tried to test her by saying I didn’t have any plans this weekend. But instead of her usual refrain – that I’m ‘living like Emily Dickinson with none of the output’ – she just told me that sounded nice and relaxing. What the fuck is wrong with her?”
Later investigations revealed that Weaving’s mother had been replaced by an android, but whoever had created it had forgotten to program in the judgement.
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