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For me, its them having grandchildren 🤦
Honestly that’s a better deal. If I could just skip infancy and early childhood to parenting young adults, that would be ideal.
I just don’t manage my autism well enough for constant yelling and stickiness (I struggled with the phrasing on this, but I’m very sure about what I settled on- my symptoms are not so severe that I am inherently incapable of parenthood, but it would take enough out of me that I would turn into sally field in Mrs. Doubtfire). Being able to spoil them, and knowing that there’s a handover coming and they’re going home would make it a lot easier.
Of course, grandparents end up as primary caregivers not infrequently and there’s no guarantee that it’ll stay a more removed relationship
I knew someone who had great grandparents who were younger than my mom.
The person was like 3 years old at the time... But given that family, by now she might have kids.