i wasn’t expecting this... 2/12/19

[Guardsman42]

That’s not addiction though, it’s just what a person is used to. I’m the opposite, grew up eating only healthy foods, god bless California. . If you give me a McDonalds burger I wonder how people can eat stuff that clearly doesn’t taste like food.

But if I was on a desert island with nothing but fast food I’d get used to it and my likes would probably change. I’d crave a salad or peach fresh off the tree desperately but it’s not the same as addiction. Same as people learning to eat healthy. Their taste buds are used to one thing and after months of fruits and veggies they might go crazy wanting a fast food burger. But it’s not an addiction, nobody is hospitalized or has seizures when they don’t get what they like.

My point is we use the word addiction in regards to food too freely and it gives fats an out. “Oh, I can’t help it, I’m addicted...”not true. Nothing in food is addictive but the world was built on the spice trade. We like flavors. Chemical additives are there to mimic flavors and preserve food, they are not addictive like heroin.

That’s not to say it’s easy to change lifelong habits, it isn’t. But that’s not quite what addiction is.

You don't think additives are addictive? They are. It's not the food, it's what they dump into heavily processed food to make it taste so great and last so long. The chemicals are addictive, not the food it self.

I suggest if people want to see the effects of subsisting off fast food to watch Super Size Me. There is controversy around it, but it's been independently verified that the addiction to the chemicals is quite real. The military has actually entirely redone portions of their menu, which is about the definition of 'heavily processed' food to preclude more and more of the more addictive chemicals.

Also Hamber did not grow up in a 'have a big mac and fries and shut up and watch tv' enviroment. As I understand her foster parents didn't abuse her, she was just enamored with the fast food at an early age. She was never in an enviroment where food was an issue. She was a social reject at any early age is all. But her abuse of food is independent of a bad upbringing. What ever triggered her dog like aggression to food could have easily been how she reacted to drugs. She grew up in a good scenario where the family who got her didn't use drugs and get drunk around her.

Until we see evidence to the contrary, I fully believe Hamber was raised in a respectable middle class scenario and likely knew how to get away with not following their rules. She could get them in legal trouble real easy. Thus, she'd gorge her self and if confronted, cry and threaten to tell a social worker.

 

[Cardboard Box Mountain]

You don't think additives are addictive? They are. It's not the food, it's what they dump into heavily processed food to make it taste so great and last so long. The chemicals are addictive, not the food it self.

I suggest if people want to see the effects of subsisting off fast food to watch Super Size Me. There is controversy around it, but it's been independently verified that the addiction to the chemicals is quite real. The military has actually entirely redone portions of their menu, which is about the definition of 'heavily processed' food to preclude more and more of the more addictive chemicals.

Also Hamber did not grow up in a 'have a big mac and fries and shut up and watch tv' enviroment. As I understand her foster parents didn't abuse her, she was just enamored with the fast food at an early age. She was never in an enviroment where food was an issue. She was a social reject at any early age is all. But her abuse of food is independent of a bad upbringing. What ever triggered her dog like aggression to food could have easily been how she reacted to drugs. She grew up in a good scenario where the family who got her didn't use drugs and get drunk around her.

Until we see evidence to the contrary, I fully believe Hamber was raised in a respectable middle class scenario and likely knew how to get away with not following their rules. She could get them in legal trouble real easy. Thus, she'd gorge her self and if confronted, cry and threaten to tell a social worker.

It's like how they add extra shit to cigarettes. Eschew junk food, in short order, you won't miss it. In fact, it will taste gross if you're not used to it.

 

[clusterfuckk]

Until we see evidence to the contrary, I fully believe Hamber was raised in a respectable middle class scenario and likely knew how to get away with not following their rules. She could get them in legal trouble real easy. Thus, she'd gorge her self and if confronted, cry and threaten to tell a social worker.

100% agree with you. I felt this way all along.

 

[Long time lurker]

Until we see evidence to the contrary, I fully believe Hamber was raised in a respectable middle class scenario and likely knew how to get away with not following their rules. She could get them in legal trouble real easy. Thus, she'd gorge her self and if confronted, cry and threaten to tell a social worker.

Thank you for posting this. For some time now I've been wondering about the veracity of the stories she tells about her upbringing, and some of it just doesn't line up.

 

[hotcheetospuffs]

Amber claims a foster mom pushed her down the stairs but this was probably a gross exaggeration. Aunt Tammy could not verify any physical abuse either.

 

[Twinkie]

The fuck? She weighed like 400 pounds as a kid. A woman of average strength is not going to be able to push her anywhere.

 

[GarthMarenghisDankplace]

Ironically, starving in Haiti might save her life.

Amerifats should do time share holidays with people in starving nations. They get to lounge in a trailer watching TV and eating 7/11 junk for a few months rent free and the Amerifat loses enough weight to keep them alive till next year when they repeat it all over again.

 

[Malibougie]

Sorry I am a tad slow today. Why do we doubt that her backstory of foster care is a lah? I never have thought to question it, though the timeline has seemed not to line up to me at times, and now that I think of it is coming from AL and she is a pathological liar- but can someone walk me through this?

 

[497]

You don't think additives are addictive? They are. It's not the food, it's what they dump into heavily processed food to make it taste so great and last so long. The chemicals are addictive, not the food it self.

I suggest if people want to see the effects of subsisting off fast food to watch Super Size Me. There is controversy around it, but it's been independently verified that the addiction to the chemicals is quite real. The military has actually entirely redone portions of their menu, which is about the definition of 'heavily processed' food to preclude more and more of the more addictive chemicals.

Also Hamber did not grow up in a 'have a big mac and fries and shut up and watch tv' enviroment. As I understand her foster parents didn't abuse her, she was just enamored with the fast food at an early age. She was never in an enviroment where food was an issue. She was a social reject at any early age is all. But her abuse of food is independent of a bad upbringing. What ever triggered her dog like aggression to food could have easily been how she reacted to drugs. She grew up in a good scenario where the family who got her didn't use drugs and get drunk around her.

Until we see evidence to the contrary, I fully believe Hamber was raised in a respectable middle class scenario and likely knew how to get away with not following their rules. She could get them in legal trouble real easy. Thus, she'd gorge her self and if confronted, cry and threaten to tell a social worker.

The only thing that came from Amber herself was that she said her mom and/or dad would give her and their drug addict friends money to go to McDonalds. I think she said something like 20 bucks and back then the dollar menu had good stuff on it. So they would get a bunch of burgers and AL would eat 3 or 4 of those. I think to her those were good times with her parents. Not sure about her foster families and what they fed her..she's said she was around 8 or 9 yo then, the age changes with that story.

 

[clusterfuckk]

Amber claims a foster mom pushed her down the stairs but this was probably a gross exaggeration. Aunt Tammy could not verify any physical abuse either.

Nothing but typical lahs....
Victimlynn spinning her webs

 

[Whatthefuck]

Sorry I am a tad slow today. Why do we doubt that her backstory of foster care is a lah? I never have thought to question it, though the timeline has seemed not to line up to me at times, and now that I think of it is coming from AL and she is a pathological liar- but can someone walk me through this?

Personally, I don't doubt she was in foster homes. I doubt almost everything she's ever said about them except stealing the money to have two lunches at school. That, I totally believe. She never talks about her foster home(s). As far as timelines, what bugs me a bit is that we don't know when she started grooming Kasey and why she wanted to escape so badly. Also, she's made sexual abuse accusations and it's not clear (to me anyway) where those came from. This gorl has had a fucked up time line from jump street. She's a damn mess. I don't think she keeps anything straight. This is why they say to tell the truth because it's easier to remember than a lah. Bitch lahs without even thinking about it.

 

[Aldora]

Amber seems to only talk about things that are to her advantage or are narratives that she can control. I do wonder a little bit though if the reason that she is so hesitant to talk about her past is because maybe(just maybe) she was the cause of all her problems.

 

[Twinkie]

Her older brother was sent to a different foster home. (hmmmm)
She had another sibling, can't remember if boy or girl, that was adopted.
AFAIK Amberlynn was in one foster home from age 11-ish until she aged out of the system. I definitely remember her saying in a video that her foster parents were good to her.

That's not to say that being put in foster care is not a traumatic experience in itself. But she wasn't bounced around to different homes or put in group homes or anything like that. I think she did have to attend an "alternative" high school because she got expelled for fighting or generally being an asshole.

We are too fucking lazy when it comes to the wiki, gorls.

 

[Aldora]

Well put it this way, AL had two brothers, the older one who was trouble(and I think was in prison at one point) and never got adopted and a younger one who was adopted. And then there is Amber who didn't get adopted. I wonder why?

 

[Malibougie]

Ok from my fuzzy memory:

She left her home around 11

She did go to a group home for a spell-
Something about hoarding granola bars and having to hide the wrappers

Had a foster family they bought her a ticket to somewhere and she had to buy two seats

But if she aged out with them, how did her mom find the note that made her have to come out to her mom? Timeline breach

Lived with grandma & aunt grandma’s spaghetti

Not sure she graduated high school to be honest

I’m kind of bored enough to try and figure this out. I guess I always took her word for it.

Aunt Tammy, can you help us out here? Thanks

 

[Long time lurker]

AFAIK Amberlynn was in one foster home from age 11-ish until she aged out of the system. I definitely remember her saying in a video that her foster parents were good to her.

Amber mentioned at least two different foster homes and, as Malibougie said, she claims she was in a group home (she mentioned it lately, when she talked about eating the girl scout cookies she had sold)

AL had two brothers, the older one who was trouble(and I think was in prison at one point) and never got adopted and a younger one who was adopted.

I'll eventually go back and check, but I remember her telling of two siblings who were adopted. When she was with Destiny she would say she misses them the most but, of course, she can do nothing about it because those were closed adoptions.

Not sure she graduated high school to be honest

She did. She was put in a special class (sorry can't remember the proper term) for "lost cause kids".

I don't know how old they were when they first met, but Amber was 18 and Kasey was 16 when Amber went to visit and never went back home.

According to Kasey, Amber went to visit and just stayed. His mom was starting to get exasperated with the guess who decided to stay for a whole month, and that was when Amber said her grandmother kicked her out.

On a side note, I always found that story too convenient. Who kicks someone out of their house after a month of that person being away?

It seems that towards the end, Amber's grandmother was her legal guardian (IIRC, someone showed receipts on a video - at 23:5o here).

Very important ETA: I don't know if the receipts shown in the video I linked are legit.