All the stuff from shanndog is really interesting. Ive never understood the idea of wanting to become disabled, maybe it’s a control thing? Like if you have someone caring for you, you have control over their actions as you can easily guilt them into doing whatever you want.
Ive had Fibromyalgia (chronic pain and fatigue) for coming on to 3 years now, and I honestly couldn’t imagine someone wanting to have something like it- it’s horrible to loose the ability to do stuff that everyone around you can do. But people like Amanda seem to yearn for that... Maybe it’s a culture/country thing? Idk how your social benefits work across the pond but the U.K. system is terribly flawed- not sure if she would qualify for anything if she was here. It’s all assessment based, and the assessors aren’t even doctors (lmao), so it’s a bit of a lottery on what the outcome would be. I don’t get a penny from the gov, and anyone can look at me and see i’m crippled lmao. It would be interesting to see if she would change her fake illnesses of choice if she was here .
If she’s faking her way through this for monitary reasons, that’s a whole new level of reason to piss me off, it’s hard enough to be taken seriously as a cripple, we don’t need people like this making it worse.
thanks, well i have the info i do because i personally knew her in real life as in hung out together for a few years and we were ''friends'' i use that term loosely because she lied and played games with me too- she was a major ass, and she was real good at twistin things so she could play that victim card, and would accouse other folks of playing victim or trying to be '' more disabled ten her'' but would be constantly doign that very same thing she accusing others of doing ! but yet early on she seemed so genuine. and she even helped me at one point , but later she used that as a scapegoat cop out type thing and turned the tables and acted like i was this and i was doin that, when i never did.
she called many folks a stalker, she even called me a stalker, uum, no honey, i asked if i could meet her and she said yes, i never stalked her- i dont have it in me to hurt another person i been burned way too much to do that, ---but amanda crazy mind she saw things in ways that just do not compute. --but she accuses all kinds of folks as stalking, when they did no such thing, so i have a personal level of hate for her and one other person
(thomas wood ) yes these are the type of people i knew / met when i lived up north )
right i agree, well the US our disability supports and befits are similar to you guys in the uk, and very flawed, underfunded and just poorly run and done...
but i guess for some folks who do this crap its the attention they like the attention, i dont understand it
no i dont understand why any body chooses to be disabled, i mean, there is no perks, its not a bad thing, its just a part of life its part of human diversity--- its not a bad thing or a good thing, its just, is.... but to want to be disabled, no, the so called supports and benefits are not worth it lol like i said i think for amanda and thomas, and similar i think its an attention thing, and its sick ! ;-/ im fascinated by this bizarre stuff but also confused disgusted by it too.
yes it is, its bullshit, FC has been tested many times and its been proven to be fake, its been debunked but people use it because agencies get funding for it---it lines employees pockets so...yeah at the expense of taking away a person autonomous voice
When she as outed as a faker by her former friends and class mates years ago after her ''interviews'' and documentary they had some interesting things to write about her. She decided she was autistic in the very early 2000's and then that she would be ''non-verbal, low functioning'' shortly after.
After watching the 2004 documentary ''Autism is a world'' about an Autistic woman (Sue Ruban) who uses facilitated communication to communicate Amanda started copying this idea herself and also started using a communication device. Here is the documentary that ''inspired'' Amanda
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fhNXUSuFt9w
Also I'm not sure if Amanda does this just to cheat the system for financial gain. Apparently her California based family had some money to send her to some private school in Massachusetts so they must not be too poor. I bet they would financially support her if she desired certainly with more money than what she could get from the government.
her family was not too well off, they a re country folks, she might have had a grant or such for that gifted school she was at , yes i rember seeing her early blogs and wrtings in the early 2000s, and she had so many disabled folks, proffessionals,( including my case worker and my job coach, ) teachers ect. me included fooled for YEARS, ( my case worker at the time had even introduced me to some of her writings )
now i had no clue she model herself after that sue rubin doc. i didnt realize that, but i would not be surprised if she did, the time line kinda lines up with that, but as the long list of details goes for her time line into insanety she was in a couple of mental places group home type half way facilities for mental illness she claimed BIID, schitz, multiple personalities, ect, but she befriended auties because they didnt make fun of her,.....now : she was a good strong advocate, she was really good at commuicating with autistics and other develppmetnally disabled folks.
BUT if she had just been an advocate and allie ---that would have been great, but no she had to put on this act, and just throw her whole life away and hurt others in the process her bullshit has made i t that much harder fort actual disabled people to be heard and took seriously, and like i said to another poster in this group she is a good actor if she had applied herself she would have been a damn good actor, and could played disabled parts and quite good too, but again, no she applied her self in the wrong ways and just ruined her life and a lotpof others with it.
