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I watched the full hour so you don’t have to. Here are my takeaways:
She said she told her mum that she won the FT competition and that her mum doesn’t like Post Malone. But she’s not been in touch with her mum/family for years.
She said the day after winning the FT competition, her Instagram grew from 3 followers to 1000. Her Instagram had under 500 followers when it was deleted.
She says rejection letters didn’t bother her because she would forget about them the next day due to her illness. But she can remember how to program complex assistive technology?
People say the scam isn’t for financial gain. The FT prize she won was £1000. A lot of these writing contests she was entering had prize money. In the same vein she talks about funding opportunities she’s been given. She has also ‘sold over 100 essays’.
She says she was struggling to write romance and thought if she went out on dates with Bradley Cooper she’d get better at. What about going on a date with your husband?
I loled so hard when she said ‘in the arts we need authentic disabled voices’. Maybe start by using your real name!
She also thinks Swedish people are from Switzerland, but that’s by the by.
My biggest takeaway from her personality was that she spoke over the interviewer so many times! And seemed like that person who is constantly just waiting for their opportunity to speak and not listening when anyone else is doing so.
Also there is no way on earth that a man lives in that house with her. The floral live laugh love of it all would send a man running the hills.
I really hope she’s not lying as some of the points she makes in this interview are very well observed and she stretches her ‘accessibility in the arts’ to include other under-represented groups which is so important and simply isn’t happening. Her idea of non-disabled writers using assistive technology so they can ‘write while they’re doing the washing up’ is very forward thinking too. She makes so many good points!
It will be interesting to see if she can provide anything that hasn’t been found out already. I think it’s a very dodgy subject to report on because while there are some clear bits of evidence that point to everything about her being questionable, nobody is going to want to publicly call her out on not being disabled for fear of backlash and ableist commentary. Even if she does interview a neurologist about the claims, there could be significant backlash.
That will never be published.
goodness, this is a surprise
