Moose: Hi, I'm a mentally unstable child! 
sg- so this comic is autobiographical. we were very subconscious, because we didn't want to confront our internalized ableism, because it was that ableism that kept us "normal" in our eyes. Our family is very... how you say... "concerned with family values". so every time we were shot down by our mother whenever we did our research and asked her for her opinion, we shoved that evidence deep down into the trash bin of our mind, excusing all of my mental illness as just "depression and anxiety, you know your aunt [redacted] has really bad issues with anxiety, everybody on [redacted]'s side of the family does!" 
sg- we even repress the evidence that we have some pretty severe PTSD from our family, because "we're family and that means we love each other"--an excuse and deflection constantly used to misdirect me.
Moose: Didjya know that when we first found out what 'gaslighting' was, it caused so much cognitive dissonance, that we couldn't understand what it meant? Seriously! We had a headrush, and realized that gaslighting was a staple of keeping the family "happy" by most of the adults in our life! So instead of accepting that, we instead pushed it down, and the definition of gaslighting along with it!