Grunking so apologies if this has been said (I'm on the other side of the world! THE SUN LEFT! NOW
duck OFF!), but that 2014 article shows pretty clearly Jack's early awareness of the disconnect between reality and her narrative, and her attempts to marry them. See how she tries to shift focus from/retcon anything that has visual evidence?
Exhibit A:
tit. The mirror tiles are in the photo. They crawled out of a puddle, I swear! The rest of the place was a total shithole.
Exhibit B:
tit. The photo makes the place look gorgeous. Because it is. BUT IT WAS PSYCHOLOGICALLY DAMAGING TO ME, A SEVERE INTROVERT.
Exhibit C:
tit. They took a goddamn *video*. No way of finessing this one. Let's just zoom in on 'former', then. SHE LEFT. MY SHOES HAVE CLENCHED WITH STRESS.
As so many wiser Frauen have said, her problem now is that there is simply too much evidence everywhere, mostly thanks to her inability to stop blurting every detail of her life all over the place. No way at all to manage things when there is just so much out there. And thus 104 forensic Tattle thread were born.