I can’t believe I got that wrong!
I can’t believe I got that wrong!Mortgage? Mortgage? How very dare you! SHE RENTS!
I don’t think she’s “learned to identify the positive sides of” anything, all she does is bloody moan!
She has definitely read that article. She is shitting bricks.
Still on a grunk, but yes!She needs to stop this. ADHD is primarily misunderstood in women because it doesn’t manifest as fidgeting and misbehaviour and underachieving. A huge number of women with ADHD are high-functioning, successful, highly intelligent, and they will meet deadlines and compulsively organise their professional lives to the detriment of their personal well-being.
So many women I know who’ve been diagnosed were mistakenly diagnosed as BPD, bi-polar etc etc, when in fact it was this “masking” behaviour which was destroying them. Jack makes attempts at copying this with her stupid fucking colour-coded lists but ultimately it’s just performative procrastination.
Jack is welcome to tout her shopped diagnosis as a reason for her repeated missed deadlines and unpreparedness, if she can say “this is not the case for everyone with my condition”. But it rankles with me that she’s asking for an excuse to do a sub-standard job and thus perpetuating the idea that if an employer hires someone with ADHD they can expect lateness, erratic behaviour and shitty excuses.
Standard Jack to wave her privately diagnosed and treated condition as a shield against this article calling out her grift. I’m heartened that people in her industry are noticing, but nonetheless others will certainly jump to her defence even though it’s fucking bullshit.
They'll probably be Sunday magazines. Some lazy commissioner (Guardian, most likely) will be all 'hmm, lots of folk having to tighten their belts a bit this year, who can we roll out who does budget cooking? Oh yeah, Jack Monroe - why the fuck do any actual research when we can just commission ol 'Slop McGee for the thousandth time'Isn’t it a bit late for Christmas jobs now? Waaaay too late for any meaningful print or tv work. Maybe a podcast, or YouTube if anything? I won’t hold my breath.
That article also says, of Jack, “she has become the face of modern poverty”.Jack Monroe on defeating Katie Hopkins and why low-cost recipes matter
The food writer on why her son isn't allowed to Google her, how veganism in a privilege, and the increased need for austerity cookbooks.inews.co.uk
This interview states she was diagnosed With adhd and autism at 11!?………………
Also if you go through her Instagram it’s very early on that’s she’s always putting up photographs or making a big show about illnesses/injuries. Some might be legitimate injuries, but who, on their professional page puts this stuff??? Sympathy fishing is something she’s done from the beginning. And on her professional page no less!Whatever ailment or condition she has, she says "this is what it is like to have X, this is what it is like to have Y". She never acknowledges that people experience these things differently.
It is also suspicious that whenever she is describing her illnesses that she has ALL the symptoms, and they are always severe. Even down to a splinter for goodness sake. She just lists everything noted on WebMD relating to her condition.
It is tragic really.
£3,000Oh god, I’m so sorry @Blurp, this is heartbreaking.
I too had a very disinterested doctor who essentially told me I was probably too sick to deal with, and it’s so hard. He had suggested BPD but I knew it wasn’t any such thing in my case. My diagnosis was a weird combination of a GP friend who I’d been to school with suggesting asking to be referred, and my PhD supervisor writing pushy letters to the GP because I had two breakdowns in the duration of the doctorate just due to the sheer stress of managing my focus.
And to be fair she’s not totally bullshitting because I did send a number of written statements to my consultant, at said consultant’s request, from my mum, friends, boyfriend, supervisors. But I had 21 months to gather these because of NHS waiting timesI strongly suspect that Jack had read somewhere online that this would be the case and just took them along unbidden.
Mind you, the way she presents her condition as ticking EVERY SINGLE BOX (hyperactivity etc), she shouldn’t have had to work so hard to prove it. The appointment was probably about 7 minutes long and cost about £3000. Just know that regardless of her diagnosis she’s not happy or productive. I know that doesn’t help you in your situation, but it’s perhaps helpful in a mild schadenfreude sort of way.
So sorry to hear your house was burned down by drug dealers. Here's a slow cooker and a book on cooking slop to cheer you upImagine being a victim of crime and getting a slow cooker and that book to cheer you up.
everything about this is perfection, I had so much fun nominating!I'm like 20 pages behind so hope this isn't a weird time to come in but:
THE SLOPPIES ARE NOW LIVE
(At least I think, hope and pray they are anyway)
please tell me if it doesn't work
I've tried it on a laptop and an android smartphone and it seems to be working!
Winners will go up on Tattle, not sure of date yet but im thinking close submissions Tuesday 15th Dec & announce on thread Sunday 20th? (Taking feedback on this though, obviously we need to pick a specific time and then be about half an hour late as well, in true JM fashion)
I laughed up a lung at this question from the interviewer: "Does Monroe ever get tired of telling her story?" You'll be amazed to learn that no she doesn't and fair play it does change a lot so I suppose it doesn't suffer from repetition.
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