I don't understand Beckie with her focus on diminishing her past accomplishments due to her autism and how 'disabled,' she is by it. I can understand looking back at your past with hindsight of your autism and how you might have acted or what struggles you have, but Beckie is just almost doing a rewriting of her past and making herself come off as helpless when she is doing rather well for herself on paper. Is this to make herself seem more helpless or that people will take more pity on her?
Such a weird story about her mum but yet I could see it happening! I think that her mum has perhaps encouraged this behaviour and for the most part, been Beckie's main supporter with her struggles over the years. I think that clip of her speaking to the NHS was perhaps her being frustrated at Beckie not getting the help for years, as Beckie's mental health, being honest, would impact the whole family greatly. I could see the other two siblings feeling left out or ignored because of Beckie's issue of the day or her mental health. I did and I'm sure that my brother really did especially when it came to having a parent with severe mental health problems and we became secondary to my dad's needs and we were on egg shells with my dad. I could see the same happening in the Brown's house.
I also think that her mum also seems to coddle Beckie and her issues. I think that Beckie is the girl who never grew up, especially with her mum having to go to her appointments and speaking for her etc. Beckie has never quite flown the nest and seems to be coming back into it now since her diagnosis, I know that she says that she is apparently caring for her mum, but I could see Beckie being too ill to do that.
I did find it interesting on Beckie's 30th Birthday video which I had on the background as I was working , Beckie made the lines of she is surprised that she was alive at thirty and that 'we didn't think that I would reach 18,' and I do wonder if this 'we,' is Beckie referring to her family, her parents specifically or it is her 'younger self.' To me, I understood it as her parents.