For those wondering about the hanging and landing, I found a quick snippet in a video below that seems to show the area. In one quick scene there is a bar there and later in that scene there are these two ring things. (Forgive my lack of gymnastics terminology.) It’s clear there is something on the ceiling to attach different equipment to. (If this was posted, I apologize, I didn’t see it.).
It is possible that an impulsive kid thought he could do some quick trick in that area to get over the stairs and accidentally killed himself. I don’t think it was a deliberate suicide, especially since mom was home.
I completely agree the mother has gone off the rails since this tragedy, and keeping a dead child on life support is insane, an indignity and disrespectful. Her unwillingness to see the truth is pathological. But evil? I don’t see it.
I am not seeing evidence of prior abuse, and she’s no Mama Nails, bragging about shopping for Michaels Kors items to make her feel better while her child rots in the hospital. This lady seems to be having people pull out old comfy things from her closet because she’s in the hospital all the time, hence the decades old juicy shit, not buying new heels and handbags. She’s by his bedside always, unlike Mama Nails.
Rather than a neglectful parent, she may have been indulgent. She got angry (rightfully) when an dumb pharmacist made a mistake and burned her kids eye. She couldn’t settle on a school she thought was right. Being angry about a wrong prescription or schooling that doesn’t serve the needs of your kid wasn’t necessarily evil. She went overboard with the media but I’m guessing she felt she was fighting for kids. There was gym equipment all over the house-an attempt to redirect an active adhd kid. Neglectful mothers don’t give a shit what their kids like and aren’t spending money on gym equipment, guitars, paints, whatever it is. The idea that this kid didn’t want to do this is laughable to me. He clearly loved it.
I have always disliked the trend of instantly blaming mothers for tragedies, as always happens when a kid dies in a public way. It’s a strange form of misogyny, and often done by those who have never raised kids, but also by mothers who are smug and believing it could never happen to them. Odd how fathers are rarely mentioned.
The truth is, we have zero idea of what kind of mother she was to Archie alive, although she has two older kids supporting her. I’m not going to call her a liar and murderer because she scratched her neck during an interview recounting the worst moment of her life.
All we really know is she went insane
after this hanging and she deserves negativity for the way she handled it since then. She is not too bright, so all the pro-life vultures descended and she couldn’t tell who was helping or hurting. She picked the idiots because she is one. If this happened before Facebook or social media and she wasn’t listening to the retarded purple wave, (half of whom seem to have had a brain dead family member who doctors were wrong about and miraculously are now discussing string theory), she probably would have accepted the experts and truth of his death long ago. In some ways, the internet was a mistake.
Have any of you seen the movie The Alpinest? It’s about Canadian Marc Andre Leclerc, one of the best ever free solo climbers. He also had a terrible case of ADHD, so much so that his mother pulled him out of school and homeschooled him (until high school, where he had to go back and where he did poorly and got in trouble.) In the afternoons when homeschooled, he would walk into mountains alone, and learned his solo rock climbing skills, and by 23, he was climbing some of the most dangerous mountains-alone. He said climbing, when one had no choice but to concentrate or die, was the only time his mind didn’t feel squirrelly and he felt peace. I mention it because it describes what severe ADHD is like, from his perspective and his mothers, and how raising him was much more difficult. (And it’s a very good movie.) Schools are really not built for kids who have ADHD brains. They are not stupid, they just can’t sit and hear droning all day. They don’t learn that way, and trying to find a school that understands that is near impossible. (Meds are not always the answer either.)
Anyway, Hollie/Lisa has gone too far in not accepting her son’s death. We all marvel at Luna’s mother, who believes her daughter asks for pink smoothies telepathically and thinks she’s doing better with PT, while we watch her head grow bigger and more deformed and her seizures slow down. A mother’s delusions are stunning to watch. I started the Nails thread, and I think both she and Robyn are definitely grifters and sociopaths, delusional as they are. I see this woman in a different light though. I truly think she just can’t face the inevitable, and all she knows is to stand up and fight, but once it’s done and over it’ll be a relief. I think her way of functioning in this world is to push back at what she sees as injustice, especially for her kids. She’s just not smart enough to know what injustice actually is. Maybe it’ll become focused into something helpful when Archie is buried and she can’t delay her mourning, then is able to move on.
Anyway, the photo-I tried to put it on top but I’m on mobile and it wouldn’t let me.
TL;Dr: Thanks for reading my TED talk.
