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.

Comments

(frozen comment) Re: ADHD is now ADD, "a form of schizophrenia" is now paranoid schizophrenia, +PTSD, -dyscalcula

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Yeah, my abuser was/is bipolar. Even though sometimes they seemed to use their MI as an excuse for abuse, it really affected their whole life, even when they were on medication. That doesn't really seem to be the deal with Andy.

(frozen comment) Re: ADHD is now ADD, "a form of schizophrenia" is now paranoid schizophrenia, +PTSD, -dyscalcula

[(Anonymous)]

My abuser had a bipolar sister and it was very clear who among them has an illness - her sister constantly got into trouble (debts, especially) because of troubles with controlling her impulses and her reactions. When you got her in a swing, she would expose herself as a moody person.
While my abuser was very good at biding her time and strategically "losing control of things" (aka, that time I basically helped her write her thesis while being so depressed I barely fed myself). She never seemed to lose her composure.

There was about a year period when my abuser suffered from depression, and it was really obvious, because she became much less effective at controlling people and her little almost-cult fell apart at the time

like, mental illness makes it hard to be a cult-leader and serially abuse people! I have seen it first hand.