Cloudia Leslie Wells

[Angie]

My Mother Cloudia Leslie Wells known to her family by Leslie. was born August 10, 1953. She was the 5th child of 6 children to be concived.She was born and raised in State Park, Illinois. When my mother was 14 my grandparents really started noticing problems. Her running away from home, getting in alot of trouble at school. My grandparents took my mother to Barnes Hospital in St Louis and test were ran. The Doctors had comfirmed my grandparents worst nightmare They found she had Paranoid Schitzoprenia. The Doctor explained to my Grandparents that my mother had a very High IQ. And her brain could tilt one way and should could be a brilliant genius. Or it could tilt another way and she could be completly crazy. They did everything the doctors said to do. they gave her medicine, and even took her in on many occations for shock treatment. our family was ignorant to her illiness. She was diagnoised in the late 60's. They didnt have the technology that they do today. When she was 17 she found out she was pregnant with me. My grandfather was beside himself. And demanded to know who the father was. To this day I still dont know who my biological Father is. When I was about 9months old she married a man to give me a father and a last name. My mother at times seemed normal, and at other times she would get this wild look in her eye and she would do adnormal things. when I was about a year old I was admitted into the hospital for the flu. She had went to her family and said I was dead. Calling family home from work. even going as far as ordering flowers to be sent to the funeral home. When I was two her Husbands son had just got married and him and his wife were thinking on how to get me away from her and raise me themselves. When she learned what was going on she went to my Grandparents and asked them to adopt me. She was in fear her husband and his son and new wife were going to take me from her. My Grandparents agreed to adopt me. My grandfather did this under the condition if she ever straightened up and wanted me back i was still and always would be her daughter. (this part was short lived) After my mom knew i was safe with her parents she left home. this is when she started disappearing in and out of my life. In the mean time while she was gone my Grandmother was in so much fear of my Grandfather letting my mom have me back, that she made sure I would hate my mom growing up. Instead of explaining to me my mother had a mental illiness. she would say things like who loves you more, whos baby girl are you, she never loved you. She was mean to you. she left you. Were your parents now. and you are our 7th and youngest child. And Im your mom and she is your sister. ect,ect. I grew up hating my mother with every breath in me. I didnt trust her. And i always knew she would never straighten up. and that it was just a matter of time before she was gone again. It also didnt help matters to family members who were ignorant to her illiness, to say stay away from her. dont have anything to do with her shes crazy. or to hear them say your going to be just like her when you grow up. Those things were hard as a child. so I put up this wall! As i was growing up she would come in and out of my life. disapearing months or a year at a time. sometimes even as long as 3 or 4 years. but she always came back home. The last time in 1995 she never came home. This is from her daughter's facebook for her. www.facebook.com/cloudialesliew
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