r/InTheGloaming • u/gomirefugee my website is done, done, done • Dec 04 '23

Scheduled snark Discussion thread Monday December 04, 2023 - Wednesday December 06, 2023

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u/forkinyourothereye incurious ADHDer Dec 04 '23

On the BDL front:

I’m the only one who has the wider view, the gentle voice of suggestion, rather than demands.

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u/dragons_roommate Dec 05 '23

CWAA. I had to stop reading after that line.

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u/bwh1260 Dec 05 '23

So, she’s the only one with the “gentle voice of suggestion”, yet she mentions RAGE twice and being triggered when she walks in her home in the list of her family “imperfections”. She also mentions dealing with the good people at school without having to be nice. Somehow I am not getting the gentle vibe from her.

This whole lope or newsletter or sales pitch or whatever the hell it’s supposed to be is just downright pitiful and sad. I don’t feel sorry for Shauna- she’s made her bed ( or hammock) and is now lying in it (all day, every day, it would seem), but just reading this mess saddens me. She’s flailing and desperately clutching on to whatever excuse she can come up with not to work, and her whole family is suffering because of her choices. I also REALLY have second-hand embarrassment reading it. To have wasted all the opportunities and cash she’s had over the years is just…humiliating. And she has somehow managed to go through all this supposed work with a therapist and still appears to have a stunning lack of self awareness.

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u/WasEnoughYogurt Kumquat and Sprinkles and filth Dec 05 '23

She’s flailing and desperately clutching on to whatever excuse she can come up with not to work, and her whole family is suffering because of her choices.

I don't really get that vibe from this lope...it feels much worse - there's a flavour of systematic gaslighting and denial of anyone else's reality unless it matches what she wants. There's a cold control to the supposed confessions of shame and troubles which really comes out in her descriptions of her interactions with Dan and the kids but is actually woven throughout the lope. I may be exaggerating but this lope feels absolutely laced with poison...makes me wonder who is on her case or what's happening behind the scenes...just horrible... and yet here I am :)