Because she was still holding on to the fantasy of Abbie and a caretaker living in the Shack Out Back. They bought their dream home with a carriage house in Riverside (sort of), Abbie was on her way to the vocational program at JSA (they thought)...everything was going according to plan.
She still thought, through no effort of their own, that Abbie would somehow grow out of her disabilities or be "fixed" by therapy, and able to live the Autism Pixie Dreamgirl life they had planned for her (and themselves)...the life where her care was palmed off on to a home health aide, and she rode her trike down to the store daily to buy cookies from the adoring local shopkeepers, and everyone who stop and wave and say "Hi Abbie!" when they saw her because she was a perfect inspiring angel who never tried to beat the tit out of her parents in a local Mexican food establishment.
But it never happened. Abbie still freaks out in public. She can't ride her trike anywhere. The shack doesn't even have a bathroom, let alone an apartment. There is no home health aide. JSA is gone. No help is coming. Abbie will be in the house forever. That reality came crashing down hard on Miss Priss.
What I find interesting is that they've gotten themselves stuck in a feedback loop on this whole Autism Pixie Dreamgirl delusion. They've created their own echo chamber of humpers who reinforce the idea that Abbie is making incredible progress, and since people claim they see progress Asa has to manufacture things that look like further progress.
Ever hear the term
fake it til you make it? It's generally a pretty good psychological trick, especially when a person is feeling anxious about something relatively minor. Act confident through the awkward initial stage of something and you'll work through that anxiety until you find yourself actually feeling confident. On the flip side, though, if you're faking it by creating an entire false reality to fool others you also wind up fooling yourself.
That's where these two are now, I think. Asa's created this alternate reality for the vlogs, he gets simpering comments about how far Abbie's progressing which puts him in a position to manufacture more scenarios to keep the dopamine hits of those comments coming, and when Abbie bashes a hole in the wall or causes a humiliating scene over plates of fajitas they both fall back to those dozens of comments praising them instead of facing actual reality. It's just a compulsion. It's attention seeking behavior. Look at all the progress she's made so quickly - everyone's saying it! Everyone except those haters sees her progress, sees how independent she's becoming!
That feels a lot better than actually unpacking what it will mean to have Abbie living with them for the rest of their lives.
Priscilla hasn't come to terms with reality. She's living in the manufactured reality Asa's created on the vlogs. She distracts herself with positive humper comments and food when reality rears its ugly head and lets Asa's fake dreams of vocational programs and life skills convince her that she won't have to deal with any of this for much longer.
Asa fully believes he's going to find that one trick no one else has been able to find for the last 16 years to unlock Abbie from this prison he's in. Everyone in the comments tells him so.
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...........I have seen buttplugs in my societal travels.
That is shaped like a buttplug.