There’s just too many contradictions with her and it’s because they have to go overboard in convincing the audience of a legit relationship. So, they lie. It just seems like a lot for her to have wanted to overcome personally about herself and own difficulties but also to have to settle for with an unequal partner just to date Shane. 1) She’s supposed to be really shy and socially awkward, and he was already a public figure...he was not going to change his line of work and she knew it. Yet she looked past this. 2) She has to do so much physically and take on the added emotional toll just for her partner to get through the day as opposed to dating an able-bodied guy, even a non threatening nerdy guy she could’ve met in a physics class...and she can’t fully enjoy certain physical activities with him that she did before him. Yet she looked past this too. Most people would say, well she was an athlete so she wouldn’t have dated a nerd anyway. Alright, then why is she dating the most non athletic person on earth? 3) He lived 1,000 miles away so that’s a lot of money traveling back and forth to see each other that she wouldn’t have to consider with a local person, and not seeing your partner for weeks at a time inevitably brings some lonely nights. Yet, apparently she looked past this. 4) If she has a fetish then she could’ve easily met one of the many disabled guys in her community, school or church.
Why do all of this? Why make your life so much more difficult when it didn’t necessarily have to be? Because there’s a huge benefit in it for you, of course. It’s just way too much for her to have wanted to actively pursue him, for someone to have to either settle for and change about themselves just to be with a guy with great personality. If she was forced by her mom to do all of this then that would make sense. But if not for the business and the attention then she would’ve chosen a safe, disabled guy who doesn’t publicize his life and they just live happy private lives together...she could’ve picked a broke wheelchair guy haha. According to her own self description, she would’ve basically had to change her whole life as it was currently constructed as well as alter her future plans of grad school etc just to be with him. C’mon now, let’s be real. It’s beyond desperation. Would anyone really be that desperate? Especially a young and educated girl with her whole life ahead of her? No