The way sarah carries on sounds similar to people with somatic symptom disorder... She's catastrophising every single niggle and discomfort... I honestly feel like it's all she talks about.
Except it doesn’t actually cause Sarah real distress. Because these SuPaHhhhh sEvERE syMpTOmS just happen to conveniently disappear when she doesn’t need to garner sympathy that day.
SPD so bad she can’t pick up a blender?…oop, blink of an eye later she’s doing the splits on a bike; or looking like a bird of prey doing a mating dance; or spreading her legs 170 degrees to force her thighs apart on the beach.
Exposed for yet
more cultural appropriation, and bs ads about coffee? Ooooh now she hasn’t slept for 4 days guyyyyyys and has heartburn worse than you could ever imagine….No it’s definitely more severe than AnYOnE GuYZZzz.
Let’s not kid ourselves. It’s all a thinly veiled front to distract from controversies (like the EBOOK SHE MARKETED TO ED SUFFERERS; or even her entitled behaviour about her ‘lost’ makeup bag).
There’s a social theory about this: ‘The sick role theory’- “Sick role is a term used in medical sociology regarding sickness and the rights and obligations of the affected.” And one of the tenants of the theory is that (and I’m simplifying the academic jargon here) is that sick people (or even those with acute or chronic conditions, including pregnancy) are to various degrees given a temporary pass on their obligations in society, and even receive special treatment socially. We see this in her stans vis a vis ‘don’t hate on her she’s pregnant, she’s in pain, she has a swollen vag’, (and therefore is apparently beyond reproach(?) )
The difference with Sarah is that whilst most people genuinely strive for health, she uses false symptoms as a way of avoiding valid criticism and exercising true responsibility (like an astute business owner would actually do), because if she was healthy she’d lose the positive attention of being unwell, and have nowhere to hide from her numerous scandals.
The stupidity of this strategy however, is that Sarah outright markets herself as a wellness guru (ahem, excuse me, HoLliStiC HeAlTh pRinCeSs
); so it’s really doing nothing for her brand that she is constantly
dealing with hiding behind all these terrible health-related issues, from GuRgLy TumMy to SPD, she’s
always had something. Even tracking to the beginning of her YT channel. This has been her tactic from day 1.
Ironically, the only actual condition she has is a raging ED (and of course the occasional staph infection that she couldn’t deny when it threatened to go septic), but that’s the condition she’ll never admit to. Not to mention that Kurt’s actual health has plummeted since meeting her. But that’s a whole other issue.
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