I know some have said they can’t stand Isla, and yes, she does have some unpleasant behavior at times, but for heaven’s sake - or FFS - she’s a 9 year old girl! Remember when we were 9? Can you even imagine your whole life being for the camera and grown ass adult strangers online either worshipping or critiquing you?
So the latest that is on the internet for life is that she was tearful that her older sisters didn’t include her in their sharing of a bedroom for the night. No way am I calling it a ‘sleepover’. Those two shared a makeshift ‘bed’ in the stinking van for weeks.
But back to Isla - she’s been used, humiliated, neglected, had her greatest vulnerabilities filmed for content - how the duck is she going to make it to adulthood unscathed? I hope she has some kind of super power to break free and read that there were folks who could see what was going on and wished they could help.
If she does make it back to school, all it takes is another 10 year old to ridicule her for not wanting to sleep alone in her room, because her bleep of a mother has made sure that everyone knows.
As I’ve said - I chose not to have kids and really do not take to babies & toddlers - I prefer animals and at least semi adults conversations. With the friends I have known with children around Islas’s age, it’s been thoroughly rewarding to have conversations with them about their interests, their ambitions - how they perceive the world.
It may seem like an extreme analogy, but it brings to mind the hideous practice of Chinese foot binding - this child desperately needs to grow, to have interactions with others beyond the immediate clan, yet she’s being forced to stay ‘small’.
The girl is in emotional pain. duck the damn garlands and lights. Give her the oxygen of life that she’s literally crying out for.