Kindness' twitter is an incomprehensible word vomit, but this one caught my eye in particular. It's a part of a long thread where she's updating her health. I'm not going to screencap the entire thread, but there's a few subtweets that caught my eye.
The Farms got a mention, in which she asks kiwis to analyse the writings of her mother.
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Here's the writings.
TL;DR: Her mother wrote a lot about Kindness - especially her observations - and does seem to be extremely concerned that Kindness has ADHD. Essentially the letters (third and fourth) seem to be a plea for help. I can't remember if she was finally diagnosed with it or not, but it does indicate that Kindness was a genuinely bright kid, if not troubled/disruptive. Check out the first paragraph of the fourth image - it's very apparent she hasn't changed.
Those letters are interesting. Between those and her thread here, it's clear that her default setting is needing a constant stream of positive attention from others. (Praise, sympathy, worry, validation, etc.)
Over time, she has learned that playing up weakness is a good way to get this. Being sick, being disabled, needing care from others... This thread is like 200+ pages of her doing that.
Another good way to get it is to emphasise being an altruistic caretaker of others. Note how in her record of events posted in the tranch thread, she makes only a brief mention of her romantic interest in Bonnie at the beginning, and then
completely glosses over it and spends the rest of the writeup making it sound like her only desire was to be a counsellor/manager for their "organization".
The problem is, what does she imagine that "getting better" will look and feel like for her? Because I can almost
guarantee that truly getting better is not going to be anything like that. It's not going to be starting from the bottom and only going up, it's going to involve actually feeling uncomfortable (or even miserable!) and not being able to use all her normal coping mechanisms to soothe those feelings away like she's used to. She's going to have to be willing to commit to learning new coping mechanisms, despite how hard that will be.
Unfortunately, another huge hurdle to this is that she's also deeply embedded in the mental health/disability/support subculture online, and the frameworks and solutions they offer for these things are far more appealing than anything that would actually be objectively
helpful. It's much nicer to hear that the problem isn't you and everyone else is obliged to be more mindful of your needs, rather than hear that the problem ultimately
is you and you need to put effort in to improve yourself to achieve a better future.