An alleged curse has seen each member of a family realising they are autistic in turn, sources have claimed.
Following the death of family matriarch Lottie Fitzgerald, her son Lloyd, Lloyd’s wife Talia and their children, Noah and Kelsey, have been led to suspect she had a terrible secret: an undisclosed autism diagnosis which has now come to tear their family apart.
Lloyd Fitzgerald, 45, said: “I found myself swaying side to side in an attempt to comfort myself at the supermarket. At the time, I just thought it was the grief of losing my mother, but when the sight of that big green ASDA logo made me cry every time I went to do the weekly shop, I realised I was in the grip of something truly sinister.”
“My wife Talia came home from the doctor one day and said she’d scored so highly on the AQ they were about to call in a priest,” He continued. “She’d told them it was probably a fluke, but then I found a set of cute and comfortable corduroy dungarees at the back of her wardrobe.”
Talia Fitzgerald, 46, said: “We all thought Noah was a regular teenage boy until he developed an intense interest in medieval architecture. He asked if he could have a medieval architecture-themed birthday party and I broke down in tears. How would you even begin to execute that?”
“And there was my poor, poor Kelsey. There was a terrible accident where Noah was taking her home from a party after one of her many food intolerances had been triggered. She stuck her head out of the car window for some fresh air when she was decapitated by a flying soup spoon. God, it was – it was – so much bigger than a spoon should be.”
The Fitzgeralds are, however, hopeful that the curse can be broken – or, like the rest of their family traumas, suppressed painfully and passed onto the next generation.
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