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Daughter's Vichy obsession goes too far, literally calling old people
A Reddit post from a concerned parent describing their 17-year-old autistic daughter's intense special interest in Vichy France during WWII, including her room decorations of Marshal Pétain portraits, self-taught French fluency, and unusual hobby of cold-calling French retirement homes to interview WWII survivors. The parent is proud but anxious about how this interest appears to others.