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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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http://tf-talk.dreamwidth.org/600.html?thread=362072#cmt362072

Does anyone else think there is something off about this comment? I've suspected for a long time it could have been posted by Andy himself. The comment itself sounds arch, and it describes Andy as "preternaturally intelligent and talented, admirably so" and as having "considerable creativity and skill". Which very much sounds like Andy describing himself.

Thoughts?

It also repeats Andy's claims about his upbringing (" a bad case of over parenting" and "seemed sheltered by religious parents") even while admitting the social isolation angle was "played up."

Not conclusive, but a little suggestive.

It does seem clear that the comment was written by him. It is too invested, too explanatory, to be a random comment from a former acqaintence. Nice try, Andy.

There's certainly something off about it, but I'm surprised the "college friend" keeps on referring to Andy as "she". Though then again Andy signed his Amypology as "Amy Player", so maybe he doesn't have qualms about misgendering himself when the situation calls for it.

It certainly seems little bit too praising and detailed to be written by a random old acquaintance, but it's also not as purple as Andy's writings usually are. I'm more inclined to think that the comment was written by someone close to Andy. After all, it seems like everyone close to him starts to write like him before too long.

DA

I'm surprised the "college friend" keeps on referring to Andy as "she".

This detail is what makes me 99% sure the comment is from Andy himself. It's completely in line with the Reboot M.O.: he's not Amy, Amy is someone completely separate from him, so why use male pronouns for her? That would be accepting that Amy has become Andy, which was something he absolutely and adamantly refused to acknowledge at the time that comment was written.

NA: I read the linked post before I saw the commentary here, and I think definitely yes.
He's shown he's willing to misgender himself to throw people off the scent, and there is the whole "preternaturally amazing, oh if only he could get past his grievous mental illness" thing (see also Anne O'Nymous).
There's also a weird sense that the commenter is speaking FOR him: the bit about how they're sure [he'd] be flattered. It's a way for him to "reward" Kerr for the positive things she says about him (and it IS the sort of thing that would flatter him, even mixed as it is) while supposedly maintaining his anonymity.

I'm iffy.

On the one hand, it seems rather too frank to be an Andyism.

On the other hand, "preternaturally intelligent and talented" is an Andyism. I put it down to perhaps a vocabulary tic in his former circle of friends, but you have a point...

Compare it to the Ann O'Nymous comment. It reads very similarly.

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