When my oldest was in yr6 he used to walk a slightly differently route home to assert his independence while I picked his little brother up. Their secondary school takes kids from surrounding villages and most of them get the bus or train. The only one who gets a lift gets dropped off half way so he can walk with friends as not on a bus route
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My username is unconnected to my own name or age, don't worry! But thank you for the concern and warning. I had been unsure about posting to begin with because Jack can be quite vicious and malicious to people, so I'm being careful.
I met Jack after she had published her first book.
To start off with I did sometimes privately question what she would say, but then tell myself off for it and tell myself to be kind. I'd remind myself she has PTSD and various stuff that can affect how she remembers the timelines of stuff, because that's what she had said.
But things didn't always add up. Her story changes depending on who/what she's telling her story for. Over time I learnt she'd left out bits of her story and exaggerated some of it. I eventually began to suspect she was using aspects of other people's lives to craft her own background. I had met her family and brought up things with them - they had entirely different versions of things and no knowledge of other things.
Yes, she does go on about being poor. For a while I believed her and felt dreadful for her. I struggle financially and thought we were in similar circumstances. She did go through a period of financial hardship and that did muck up things like her credit rating, but she is not poor now.
It made me very uncomfortable to see her getting people to donate money to her on social media (generally these people were also struggling and giving what little they had). She'd have spent the day going on about how she was struggling to survive and can't afford essentials. But she would also be going on spending sprees at the same time. She also has family to fall back on.
I'm disabled and have serious health problems. Jack wasn't (to my knowledge) when we first met. But each time I got a new diagnosis (and other people did), not long after Jack would post on social media about having that exact same condition. But she hadn't told any of her friends about it. It felt off. Also, a mild toothache would become a cracked tooth without having seen a dentist. Joint pain became RA without having seen a specialist... She'd google symptoms and then start calling herself autistic etc. Yet it takes a long time to get that diagnosis.
She constantly had to one-up people with their health problems, like it was a competition. I noticed she'd post things to elicit sympathy regarding her health shortly following being queried or challenged about something by a friend or person in her life. Or to get them to reply to her (posting sad unwell photos/ vague posts about serious possible health problems when particular person(s) had fallen out with her...)
I started to realise that Jack didn't care about her friends. It often felt like she only cared about what people can do for her. You'd spend time with her and realise afterwards it had all been about her.
She had many acquaintances. She does have friends - but not many and her friendships don't last. She mainly has people that will say yes to her and tell her how wonderful she is/ how hard her life is.
If you try and call her out on something or question something or tell her she's in the wrong/crossed a line then it's an attack and becomes confrontational. She brings up her PTSD, rape, and all manner of things to win the argument and shut down the question.
No, I've never gifted her expensive items. Just regular Christmas gifts. I don't know if she actually ever was gifted anything. She would always be vague about who had given her things and refuse to say who the generous person was. I heavily suspected she buys them herself.
I met Jack after she had published her first book.
To start off with I did sometimes privately question what she would say, but then tell myself off for it and tell myself to be kind. I'd remind myself she has PTSD and various stuff that can affect how she remembers the timelines of stuff, because that's what she had said.
But things didn't always add up. Her story changes depending on who/what she's telling her story for. Over time I learnt she'd left out bits of her story and exaggerated some of it. I eventually began to suspect she was using aspects of other people's lives to craft her own background. I had met her family and brought up things with them - they had entirely different versions of things and no knowledge of other things.
Yes, she does go on about being poor. For a while I believed her and felt dreadful for her. I struggle financially and thought we were in similar circumstances. She did go through a period of financial hardship and that did muck up things like her credit rating, but she is not poor now.
It made me very uncomfortable to see her getting people to donate money to her on social media (generally these people were also struggling and giving what little they had). She'd have spent the day going on about how she was struggling to survive and can't afford essentials. But she would also be going on spending sprees at the same time. She also has family to fall back on.
I'm disabled and have serious health problems. Jack wasn't (to my knowledge) when we first met. But each time I got a new diagnosis (and other people did), not long after Jack would post on social media about having that exact same condition. But she hadn't told any of her friends about it. It felt off. Also, a mild toothache would become a cracked tooth without having seen a dentist. Joint pain became RA without having seen a specialist... She'd google symptoms and then start calling herself autistic etc. Yet it takes a long time to get that diagnosis.
She constantly had to one-up people with their health problems, like it was a competition. I noticed she'd post things to elicit sympathy regarding her health shortly following being queried or challenged about something by a friend or person in her life. Or to get them to reply to her (posting sad unwell photos/ vague posts about serious possible health problems when particular person(s) had fallen out with her...)
I started to realise that Jack didn't care about her friends. It often felt like she only cared about what people can do for her. You'd spend time with her and realise afterwards it had all been about her.
She had many acquaintances. She does have friends - but not many and her friendships don't last. She mainly has people that will say yes to her and tell her how wonderful she is/ how hard her life is.
If you try and call her out on something or question something or tell her she's in the wrong/crossed a line then it's an attack and becomes confrontational. She brings up her PTSD, rape, and all manner of things to win the argument and shut down the question.
No, I've never gifted her expensive items. Just regular Christmas gifts. I don't know if she actually ever was gifted anything. She would always be vague about who had given her things and refuse to say who the generous person was. I heavily suspected she buys them herself.
Her life has absolutely been on a downward spiral since Louisa left but I'm not convinced all her recent posts have been about Louisa. She also didn't say her heart was healed. She said the dog was for heart healing purposes. Like her and Louisa ended two years ago. Why would she need to get a dog to heal her heart after louisa left two years ago?
She was planning to get the dog when she was with her last OH and picked it up early because she got dumped. According to her
As for deliciously ordinary absolutely she's having a pop at someone but I had no idea who Louisa was a couple of years ago. She might be well connected but she's not super famous and this makes Jack look even more of a bampot as she asked Louisa out and she asked Louisa to marry her.
She's also a complete idiot as she was happy to parade both Louisa and Allegra all over the press to get her more exposure
Plus she already has a pet! Cooper. She possibly was trying to get pregnant and envisaged herself with a child and a dog and her partner moving in and look how it's turned out
Bunny boiler. Putting her OH name in the acknowledgement section that isn't out till next year is mental behaviour in itself
She was planning to get the dog when she was with her last OH and picked it up early because she got dumped. According to her
As for deliciously ordinary absolutely she's having a pop at someone but I had no idea who Louisa was a couple of years ago. She might be well connected but she's not super famous and this makes Jack look even more of a bampot as she asked Louisa out and she asked Louisa to marry her.
She's also a complete idiot as she was happy to parade both Louisa and Allegra all over the press to get her more exposure
Plus she already has a pet! Cooper. She possibly was trying to get pregnant and envisaged herself with a child and a dog and her partner moving in and look how it's turned out
Bunny boiler. Putting her OH name in the acknowledgement section that isn't out till next year is mental behaviour in itself
Probably left a post it on the 'wall' and a note on the wallpaper planner, but it took her a while to spot it
I don’t know if she was on the radio, but this sounds almost verbatim like one of the tweets she put out the other day when she suddenly realised there was a train strike and SOLIDARITY and all that. So I think they may have pulled it from that tweet.
(Is she actually real then?)
Thanks for all your detailed information. It must have been hard being around her for that length of time.
Were you around during the pandemic and was she really heartbroken from Louisa leaving (I think a lot of us suspect that was the catalyst for her cycling of recent -by recent I mean 2 years
- behaviours)?
Please don’t apologise, the vey unique and real experiences of posters who can share them in a safe space to add their take on a variety of subjects are what makes these threads so unique.Apologies. Hence the spoiler. I will stop.
You don't seem like a twit
A lot of discussion of traumatic subjects ends up happening on this thread, it's bound to get intense at times.I don't think the original poster was saying that middle class people have a shield against mental health difficulties, it seemed like she was trying to say that visibly unwell (in a narcy way) middle class people are sometimes able to downplay or deny the extent of their problems. She then generously said that this middle class ex-friend's narc issues were caused by deep trauma, but this made the post look like she was criticising mental illness in the middle class. It was just unclearly written.
Definitely, some middle class people also struggle to understand and access support. It just seems they're much less likely to struggle with this than working class people.
Definitely, some middle class people also struggle to understand and access support. It just seems they're much less likely to struggle with this than working class people.
Yes. She deactivated around 1:15 am (page 43 of this thread)Has she deactivated? (Or have I missed something?)
So she's basically got Munchausen Syndrome. Diagnosing herself for attention and over exaggeration of things she does have wrong.
This is everything that's wrong with social media. You have a bell end like her faking illnesses to over 500k people now and getting away with it for years.
And of course she couldn't just have PTSD. No she has to be a sex worker and work in a brothel and be the victim of ..... bleeping everything. She does my nut in
This is everything that's wrong with social media. You have a bell end like her faking illnesses to over 500k people now and getting away with it for years.
And of course she couldn't just have PTSD. No she has to be a sex worker and work in a brothel and be the victim of ..... bleeping everything. She does my nut in
I've got several friends there just now
)they've been posting regularly...some cracking shots of sunset and fireworks last night
Can we ask your friends (glastofrau maybe) to tell you if they see her?I've got several friends there just nowseasoned goers who help set up the site/ help in medical tent(including a retired Prof who helps make the totem poles!
they've been posting regularly...some cracking shots of sunset and fireworks last nightstill wouldn't get me there for all the tea in China!
No obligation to go to the leftfield stage obvs.
She's reactivated
thank you for sharing this. Mixed feelings like I’m really sorry this negative person was in your life, but also the tea is delicious 🫖
It’s been a few years since I went, but yeah you can use your phone. Mobile broadband reception isn’t too bad for a rural area and there were charging areas. I’m fully expecting my instagram feed to be about 90% ‘look at me at Glasto!’ posts this weekend. It was more fun back when you felt cut off from the world.
I think she’s deactivated to go hang out at Glasto, thinking that she can avoid questions about the dog. I’m guessing she’ll be back on after her weekend jolly, with some excuse that the evil anti-dog trolls were sending her abuse.
Am I real or is Jack real?(Is she actually real then?)
Thanks for all your detailed information. It must have been hard being around her for that length of time.
Were you around during the pandemic and was she really heartbroken from Louisa leaving (I think a lot of us suspect that was the catalyst for her cycling of recent -by recent I mean 2 years
I had met Louisa a few times. She was lovely. She seemed calm and stable. Very competent. But she didn't like everything being posted on social media and being referred to it on there constantly.
Yes, Jack was a mess when she left. I think it was both Louisa leaving and also losing the life Jack thought she was going to have with Louisa. She didn't hide that she thought it would bring her success and connections. She was in love with the idea of being married to Louisa and Louisa's job.
The thing with Jack is that if her partners had plans that didn't involve her you could guarantee she'd have a mental health crisis as soon as they'd gone out. So every time they would have to leave their friends to go back and look after her. It soon got tiring for them. She didn't like them having social lives without her and got jealous. An ex of hers described her as suffocating.
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