So the ex said to me not too long ago: “I’ve been discussing with my therapist and she thinks it might be ASD and not BPD”. Pretty sure I mentioned this here. It’s been rubbing me the wrong way for a minute. She was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder a minimum of twice so far. The diagnosis is spot on. It’s absolutely a believable diagnosis, if not obvious to even non-medical people. My wife is adding psych to her master’s degree via a certificate, so she’s clinically equipped to spot this stuff and she says that my ex is one of the worst borderlines she’s seen.

My ex is a really awful borderline. She is currently mentally and emotionally abusing our son because he’s starting to see her disease and isn’t handling it very well. Then again, it’s not something anyone can “handle well”, honestly. I knew it wasn’t something I wanted in my life when I started reading about it. I never had any intention of marrying the ex because I knew it wasn’t something I was ever going to be “okay” with having as a central part of my life, or even in my life in any way. I just have no patience or tolerance for someone who fabricates reasons for their own emotional imbalance. Sorry, you’re not actually mad at me, you’re just insane and are trying to justify your insanity with my presence.

Now, I’m not eleven years old. Even as a thirty year old man I had to do research on this crazy shit. My son is not at all prepared for this, so of course his handling of it is exactly what you would expect from someone that’s eleven.

But what really upsets me is that she’s making his life hard because she refuses to work on herself. She really is the worst mother in the world.