I haven’t commented here for a while, or looked at the SJs content either for that matter. But thought I would give my opinions on the recent developments.
Assuming Jonathan is telling the truth about having experienced abuse, I think he is completely going the wrong way about coping with it. He said in an IGTV video that discussing with his siblings has really helped, and I don’t know why he doesn’t continue to do this. Speak to his siblings, parents, and most importantly, a therapist! Writing down thoughts may well help him but I think that he will mentally struggle after the publication. Even giving himself a deadline will be difficult to cope with, if it truly is such a traumatic, personal thing he is writing about. Though I do find the difference between his draw my life video and coming out video to be startlingly different (as others have pointed out).
As for Jonathan ‘coming out’, I desperately hope he is not taking the piss out of the trans community. That is a group of people that really do not need any more hatred. The way he spoke in the start of his video sounded asthough he would be coming out as trans, or non binary, or genderfluid, etc. But then he has made it clear that this is not the case.
The thing that concerns me the most is that Jonathan is very explicitly now placing his own gender confusion onto Eduardo. It is normal for children to play with different types of toys and wear different types of clothes. When you listen to trans people discussing how/when they knew they were trans, many say that there were signs as a child but they only came to a full realisation during puberty or later. From having not seen their content for at least 6 months, it’s startling how much Eduardo is suddenly in dresses, wigs, and make up, when previously it was just dress up and the occasional outfit. Eduardo is his own, unique person, his job is not to inspire Jonathan, and he certainly doesn’t deserve to be forced into Jonathan’s narrative. That poor kid. Everything he does, and that all of their children do, is just for show, and they no nothing different. Pure Truman babies with their whole lives on camera for the world to see, whether they like it or not.