CoffeeMomof2
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5. She has a serious mental illness.
I was thinking after last night's vlog - look at Candy's kitchen and pantry. We've seen it all before, of course, but I was really looking at the pantry, which is just a separate room with shelves to display mountains of junk food. It's not an old bookcase tucked away in the basement, it's not a little closet or extra cabinet to keep some extras on hand. It's a custom built room with beautiful cabinetry, open shelving, and bright lights to display a bounty of food. She had that built specifically for that purpose.
What kind of food reverence was Priscilla raised with, given her mother's dream home setup?
How did Candy use food when Priscilla was a child? Look at how she uses food with Abbie; she has Abbie "go shopping" every time they visit. She always has treats and big spreads of food for any occasion big or small.
Priscilla has given tons of examples of how lonely and desperate for attention she was as a child. She recently was talking about being with a grandmother out of town during the summers and going to multiple vacation bible camps each year to try and find kids to play with so she wasn't stuck inside with good old gram. She's talked about not playing with toys when she was a kid, not watching TV. She never, ever, ever mentions childhood or high school friends that she's still in touch with, other than the one lady who talked her into joining Slimelife and we know how that situation goes. She literally has no typical childhood stores she's ever shared, and when Asa talks about his fond memories of childhood Priscilla just looks.....lost, and blank, and non-comprehending. She's talked about acting up in serious ways as a child, enough that Candy got professionals involved - sounds like attention seeking behavior to me.
She grew up lonely in a broken family with what seems like few normal childhood experiences. If Candy ever married Ralph they weren't together long so her bio father's involvement would have been sporadic. She may or may not have been aware of her older half siblings but if she was that was probably ....traumatic, wondering if her mother would leave her too. Her mother and stepfather were heavy early on, even with Wayne in the military, which points to how food has always been handled in that house.
To me that all points to the utter clusterfuck of disordered eating and food addiction we see shamelessly flaunted in every single vlog the last couple-few years.
Priscilla was lonely, physically mistreated (the hilarious story about broken wooden spoons), shuttled around between her broken family and military moves, never seemed to have any normal childhood experiences, and she latched on to the first military man (those ladies have a type!) she could sink her claws into.
Candy has a food addiction of some sort and Priscilla was raised in that environment. Top that off with a disastrously lonely child/adolescent who seemed to want to escape to a better situation with the man of her dreams only to get pregnant immediately, get abandoned, get married to her reluctant Romeo, get cheated on, get left alone with an infant for months while Romeo knocked another woman up - all of that building on her existential loneliness, mind you - and then, finally, Romeo returns and knocks her up again and they're having a baby girl and her family is now perfect and complete and she can buy all the dresses and ruffles and pastels and all the things and........
Welp. Her family isn't perfect. Her fix-it baby isn't fixing anything. They're broke. Romeo can't hold down a job. Therapy is so expensive and it takes so much time and tiny little girls aren't supposed to scream and hit and, y'know, the diaper problems. If she had any friends then they were long gone - that happens when you've got a disabled kid more often than not. She's working at a damn home improvement store, they're living in her mom's house because they can't afford to live on their own.
The only coping mechanism she's ever known has been to find comfort in food. The emptiness of nothing inside isn't hunger but food helps make it feel full for a bit. Some people get caught up in drugs. Some people drink to make it all go away - and she does that too, but food was first. At this point, with a full blown mental/emotional addiction, food - eating it, thinking about it, preparing it, shopping for it, having it, looking at it - is the only thing that makes her feel a little bit like things are okay in her life.
If Priscilla keels over first, which is probably more likely whether via coronary or a major physical injury, Asa will monetize the shit out of the entire thing. Holy shit, think of the views he'd get! Think of the "single father to autistic girl" new audience he'd pull in! Think of the sympathy and donations that would roll in! It would be an absolute shitshow that he'd milk for years.
If Asa goes first we'll never hear from that family again. She has no idea how to do much more beyond updating her Facebook page.
