"Larry and I were crushed".
CRUSHED. She actually used that word after crushing her dog. The death of a pet is never funny, but everything Lucas's Mom writes about tragedy is so full of strange holes and plot details that don't line up; you've really got to question her version of events. I've still never gotten over Lucas's "hot oatmeal" rash and what an oddly specific descriptor that is.
HOW could you crush your dog, and then write "Larry and I are crushed"? Also, the sympathy with which she discusses the dog sounds INCREDIBLY similar to the way she discusses Lucas as a child. It sounds like faux-sympathy, faux-concern. She may be sincere, but she radiates insincerity.
She talks the way a low IQ sociopath does when they're trying to play victim for something, know people expect a certain set of behaviors and attitudes and behaviors from them in doing that and are trying to mimic and display those behaviors without really understanding the emotions involved or how to behave like a normal person. Con artists, sociopaths, BPD's and serial killers do this kind of shit. As do autists but when autists do it its coming from a very different place and usually not in a deliberate malicious or manipulative manner but a legit result of actually having autism. This is part of that that mask of sanity shit you hear so much about from psychologists and law enforcement. Its why so many people get conned by such people at first when they're not really paying attention to how the person is behaving, but if they stop and consider the situation they start to notice somethings just off about how they act and their mannerisms. Like an alien giving an imitation of what it thinks being a human is like
Which is exactly the way lucas behaves. He's just stupider and thus more glaringly obvious about it without being aware of it. I've said it before and i'll say it again - she is the source of much of his behavior and attitudes. Stuff like this just makes that ever more obvious
and i'm calling it now - we're going to get more weird behavior and claims from her the more her dementia starts progressing and she starts to slip in her ability to think and lie rationally until she starts acting an awful lot like lucas does now. and then suddenly the rest of the family is going to get involved and stop her from posting shit publicly anymore
Twrx said:
She views people and animals exactly like he does. Nothing but NPCs with transactional value. All that matters is what they can do for them, nothing more. Doesn't matter if it's supposed friends, family members or pets.
Exactly. She is a sociopath. I have zero doubts about that. and like every other sociopath she views everything in terms of how useful the things she interacts with are to her, whether that is people, animals, relationships, objects, etc... Everything is a means to an end and matter only in so far as they advance her desires in some way. She's also fairly low IQ as shown by the fact she slips up fairly frequently and doesn't notice it or how some things she says and does look. She even uses lucas himself in the same way. These days its for sympathy points and such but even as a kid all the shit she admits he had to go through were all twisted around in her head and treated as a slight toward her in some way. It was all about her. She didn't really care what happened to lucas as a kid so long as it didn't make her look bad and so long as he didn't cross any major lines that might cause serious consequences that came back on her. I wouldn't be surprised if she actively covered up a few things in lucas's childhood or put pressure on others to do so. You know, like
if you imply my little lucas is acting creepy and inappropriate toward little girls in his class or do anything to him about it i'll scream discrimination and sue! sort of thing. Not for his sake but for how it would reflect on her as his mother. Even that website she made about him was all about her, which you could tell by the examples she gave of lucas being supposedly treated badly and of course the infamous stuff she claimed about how he became mentally ill in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason she got rid of the site is because somebody pointed this out to her and started asking why she was saying some of that stuff in those examples
So like you were saying, she doesn't care about the dog in itself, she only cares about the perceptions others have of her so she puts on an act that she thinks they expect her to have when such an incident happens
That said, as fucked as lucas himself is I bet myrna has more than a few skeletons in her closet and a history of behavior not all that different from his that would make for quite the thread of its own if it ever got out. However, unlike lucas she isn't so stupid that she doesn't know to keep most of the bad shit private. Probably the one thing she should have taught him but clearly didn't. Its kind of ironic really, as even a dog will engage in deception to try to hide the fact that its done something bad when it gets caught and doesn't actively advertise it.....so lucas is legitimately stupider than the average dog....never mind the fact that by his own admission he used to piss and shit in bushes, responded to his name and treats like a dog and had very dog like behaviors early on in his mental hospital stays. I still wonder what they had him on to make him like that. Might have been better for everyone if they'd kept him on it