lmao you must have ESP.
Discernmentlynn is one of my favorite Amber's. When she pretends to have taste and shovels down shit the whole time saying she doesn't even like it, it's like watching a monkey dance for peanuts.
Someone compared AL to a sofa and it flew right over her head.
She's a liar and a bad one. This is why she surrounds herself with speds because they are the only ones who believe her.
This is an overly-simplified explanation but in general when there's trauma there's a way to cope with it to survive. Even most adults don't have the tools to deal with intense psychological pain like that but children are completely helpless. So if one can't deal with the pain, one has to resort to distraction. Little Amber had nothing but food to distract herself with. Since she never got the kind of specialized care she needed (somehow I doubt the therapy she was forced to attend in foster care was adequate), those dysfunctional patterns became cemented as her only coping mechanism. She has been eating instead of properly dealing with her emotions (pleasant or unpleasant) her entire life and it compromised her physiologically (addiction of any kind fucks up brain chemistry + eating nothing but junk food your entire life fucks up tastebuds, GI tract, hormones).
