continued Thatfucker discussion

[anonniemouse]

Since we've been kicked off FFA for the week, please feel free to continue the anon discussion here. Apologies if this is a big flop - I've never made a DW community before!

The rules are vaguely the same as they are over on FFA. Please refrain from being too much of an asshole, making personal attacks, posting identifying information or engaging in transfail.

ETA: If there's information you'd like to see archived (journal/blog posts related to Andy, etc.), please dump it here and link to it from the main post for discussing.

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[(Anonymous)]

I suggest they have him placed somewhere would he can be supervised? Like holy shit why are you being fucking dense. If he is really so mentally ill that he cannot help but do this things and cannot tell reality from fiction and cannot help but abuse people and is really under medical care -- they could have him declared unable to make decisions for himself and have him placed in a care facility that can do things like cut off his internet if he starts lying and trying to hurt people.

Or since you know he's probably a manipulative asshole that talks up having mental illness to get out of things and his parents know he has issues, they could stop letting him have teenagers and vulnerable young people over to role-play and pretend to be other people. They could stop enabling him. They could see that he isn't changed or wanting to change and try to get him real treatment?

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DA

I can say from personal experience that that first option is pretty much impossible in the US these days. There really isn't anywhere that they can have him committed to for any length of time, even given their decent financial situation. Which is why our prisons/jails are the largest residential providers of mental health services these days.

I do agree with your second paragraph though.

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[(Anonymous)]

And yet parents do it all the time.