Long time lurker but felt had to comment about B..I'm an older one from the bygone times when you could leave school at 16, work full time and leave home. Many of my friends did.
B has proved herself to be independent and pretty street smart and very typical of 17 year olds when I was growing up. Our parents were from the previous generation (mine wartime) and treated us as adults too.
B is savvy enough to know what a shitshow the PTWM is becoming so has to tread a fine line as its still her family at the end of the day. She knows what a fraud her Mother as her escape to the Apicellas earlier in the year show. She's in an unenviable position of being torn between her two families and is coping by being out of the house as much as possible and forging ahead with her own life..as will Seb soon.
B may be alot of things - but she's not manipulative and a liar like her Mother. If anything, she's upfront and fiesty. If pains me to say it as she was always my great hope, but the manipulative baton appears to have been passed to T. She, in my opinion, shows little traits of autism and never has done ( as opposed to W), but is already learning, probably by observing her Mother, how to use that to her advantage.. ...