I have known my friend for about 10 years.
I and anyone who has met her as well as herself knows there is something wrong in her head and how she thinks.
To her she feels like she is thinking through treacle. But also as she describes it as like ping pong balls bouncing around in her brain so she is trying to grab a ball and hold onto it before losing that train of thought and grabbing another ball and changing the conversation.
We can be discussing children's Schooling and suddenly it changes to buying cars.
She knows she is doing it but at that point in time has forgotten what she was discussing and she has "caught" the next ball.
She is badly dyslexic. Reading is a huge problem. But then she is an absolute whizz at Maths.
She has OCD.
She has trouble focussing
The biggest problem and the one which has led her to the most awful problems is she isn't able to distinguish whether someone means her harm.
It is like a guy whispering sweet nothings in her ear whilst holding a knife aloft.
She doesn't see the danger.
Her ex has caused her life altering injuries. Threatened to kill her. Burn the house down with her in it. But more worrying is her admittance that if he just smiled at her she would have him back straight away
Friends are really worried for her.
I was with her yesterday when someone who was advising her on her divorce said that there was something wrong with her brain and was wondering whether she had ever been tested for aspergers/autism.
Or even tested for brain damage from a previous attack by her ex
As one example friend has been working on replies to ex's statements.
Friend also can't answer a question directly. She will answer it but it will be in the middle of a load of other stuff that is irrelevant but she thinks needs saying.
We know as she does something is very wrong and wondered what these symptoms lead to.
Also she is 100% truthful. To her own detriment. She cannot not say something if someone asks anything.