Jack Monroe #41 No one else gaslights or fights for 'likes' like Jack Monroe. Oops.

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ShowMeYourFeline

Pantomimehorse said:
I've seen her mention she's disabled before , did she ever say how ?
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I’m pretty sure she’s referring to her claims to have autism and ADHD. See here:

Jack Monroe, Bootstrap Cook interview - spilling the beans on tins, Twitter and talking about gender

The campaigning cook is on a mission to help everyone on a budget find the fun in feeding themselves
www.scotsman.com

I don’t believe her though, I’m legitimately diagnosed, and her description of diagnosis in the above link is nonsense.

I can’t copy and paste the quote because I’m on my phone, but it included things along the lines of:

• “The doctor said I have 99% of the symptoms of classic autism” - no he didn’t Jack, “classic autism” is an old-fashioned term for the learning disabled, non-verbal type. Also, they don’t give you a percentage score in autism assessments; after the assessment, the psychiatrist will write a pages long report, then the conclusion will just be that they have diagnosed you.
• “It (her autism) has features of ADHD too” - not how it happens. ADHD is a separate condition, and will usually be assessed separately. Edited to add: what she describes is absolutely not a diagnosis of ADHD.

Another thing is that assessments for both conditions take hours involving interviews and questionnaires, and require an interview with a parent or childhood career.

Assuming there’s is any truth to her claims, it sounds like she is talking about going to her GP to discuss her concerns, and the GP as a non-expert, has agreed that she has enough symptoms to refer her for a proper assessment. This is nowhere near the same thing as an actual diagnosis. Also, the waiting list after referral can be a whole year or more, I’m sure as a perpetual victim we would have heard about this if it was true.

Finally, not being able to drive is not a major symptom of autism. Sure many of us can’t drive, including me, but lots of people struggle to drive. As a stand-alone symptom, what she describes sounds more like anxiety.
 
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Lanie

Oh no please stop. I mean fair enough they should have given her money, but do it quietly.
 
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Brian Butterfield

Pocahontas said:
Why does she have to kill food? She literally kills it
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Serious question - she clearly hates cooking and it shows as she's not very good at it. How on earth has she managed to get so many books published when the quality of her food is so poor?
 
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LennyBriscoe

Aaaaaaarrrrrggggggghhhhhhhh!!! She is awful! What a nice thing to do would be to say to the woman, who maybe has been dying to get that off her chest for days, “I know what you mean, it’s a scary thought is it. But you’ve come this far, you’ve got this! It WILL be ok”.

I think that’s awful to say she feels the same. IMO she would have been better off ignoring her!
 
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AmberSpyglass

Yes, the ‘same’ shuts the woman down with nowhere else to go . As always, the person most important to Jack is Jack and bollocks to everyone else.
 
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Lanie

AmberSpyglass said:
Yes, the ‘same’ shuts the woman down with nowhere else to go . As always, the person most important to Jack is Jack and bollocks to everyone else.
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I just hope she realises it's very lonely at the top, ask any really really famous people.

Especially ones who have stepped on people to get there.
 
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NP

Where’s that clip of her jumping on her sofa when you need it?
 
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AmberSpyglass

hongkongfuey said:
Serious question - she clearly hates cooking and it shows as she's not very good at it. How on earth has she managed to get so many books published when the quality of her food is so poor?
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She talks everyone to death , she could actually talk a glass eye to sleep.
 
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