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God I can almost see the US Weekly cover now.
02/11/09
Does this remind anyone else of the scene in Mean Girls where Regina tells Aaron that Cady sleeps with his used Kleenex under her pillow and wears a t-shirt that says "I ♥ Aaron" under all her clothes?
I can't help but think this is completely made up Regina George-style.
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Sigh
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Yes, we are terrible people, but we let her come and cry afterwards during the rerun of gossip girl.
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There seem to be a lot of similarities between Nadya Suleman and Angelina Jolie, in the collection of children to "fix" emotional issues. I don't get one mother is vilified while the other becomes Mother Teresa.
02/11/09
I see no similaries between Ms. Suleman and Angelina Jolie. Ms. Suleman is using taxpayer money to support her 14 children. (She is receiving food stamps, along with a monthly check to help with her THREE special needs kids, plus taxpayers will foot the bill for the octos hospital bills, said to be over a million dollars.) That is why she is being vilified.
Angelina does not have 14 children, she has six and three of those were adopted. She also has a man helping her with her six children and she does not live in a three bedroom house with her mother!!! She and Brad are also two of the top money earners in Hollywood. They don't need a website for donations. And she does not claim to be Mother Teresa
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believe me, i feel sorry for whatever happened to her in childhood that made her so obviously disturbed, but one learns in therapy, no matter the mental illness, that one is responsible for their poor decisions as adults, regardless of their illness or circumstances, especially decisions that affect FOURTEEN children and her parents. her decisions will create hardship for many and a strain on many. sympathy is just allowing her to not feel the consequences of her actions something she obviously has a problem with, and actually feeds her illness.
i'm tired of being begged for sympathy for her. no. save your sympathy for the children. they will surely need it.
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Like it or not a mental illness DOES effect your decision making. IT DOES make it more difficult to make rational and reasonable decisions, and I will NOT except that one is solely responsible for the bad decisions they have made when they are dealing with a chemical imbalance in their brain. That is like saying I am responsible for not winning a marathon when I was trying to run it with two broken legs. TECHNICALLY it is correct. I am the one who has the broken legs. I am the won who is trying to win a marathon. But it is not fair to hold me to the same standards as one who is running on two functioning legs.
When my mother killed herself she left behind a LEGION of people whose entire life was changed because of that one act. But the bottom line is that while she was ultimately the one who made the decision to do what she did, she was not capable of making a rational decision when she did it.
I am not asking you for sympathy. I am asking you not to fucking mock the poor woman every fucking chance you get and save your fucking ire for someone more fucking deserving of it.
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@Stabby McStabberson loves annoying Gawker commenters with her sentence-long username: Whether her childhood, her biochemical makeup, or both (probably the latter) have caused her emotional disturbances, there's a hell of a lot of difference between taking responsibility for your actions and not understanding the ramifications of said actions the way other people might. The woman didn't get too drunk and make an ass of herself at the office party. Her decisions bespeak a level of illness that bootstrap talk won't quick-fix and derision *will* certainly compound. And I've said it before, I'm saying it again: Why on earth is it so hard to have sympathy for her AND her children? Is there a compassion shortage? Since when does sympathy feed mental illness? Yeah, hate is a MUCH more effective tactic.
02/11/09
I have been a flake my entire life. I could not keep an appointment, I couldn't remember to do the simplest of tasks and I have spent the last 27 years of my life beating myself up every step of the way. If you asked my father to describe me in one word it would have been "irresponsible". Last month I was diagnosed with ADD. I was started on medication and lo and behold suddenly I am able to do things I couldn't do my entire life. I am a changed woman, because I took a medication that normalized my FUCKING BRAIN CHEMISTRY.
Mental illnesses are real illnesses. This woman and her children deserve our sympathy.
02/11/09
Is this considered giving her "special" treatment. Is she "beyond reproach" are we treating her like a special snowflake? NO we are taking into account the disabilities she might have before we make fun of her. It really really saddens me that a person in the mental health field thinks taking ones mental illness into effect before judging them is akin to giving them special treatment.
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I realized last night that I was taking this matter very personally and getting more angry than was appropriate for the situation. I have a personal stake in this argument and was getting angry and my own demons and not necessarily what you were typing. I still hold true to what I said, but I'm sorry I said it so irrationally.
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Why in the hell does she still have a phone messaging system that requires cassette tapes?
Is she a throwback junkie or did she not know that the voicemail lady now lives in your phone?
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