What makes it worse is that Nick engages in exactly the same behaviors. He has his own list of maladies and he also uses them in the same ways. You have two crazy people living in that house who each want to avoid any adult responsibilities.
I'd launched into a rant about that as well, but decided I was being over the top. But I agree. I'm not sure whether Kayla learned the behaviour from Nick, Nick learned it from Kayla or it's just a folie a deux, but it's definitely a function of the comfortable monied class. And I suspect some degree of them copying each other in respect of these imaginary conditions.
When I think about the women in my own life, my mother, my wife, my sisters, my daughters -- none of them ever take time off work, regardless of how ill they are. They had to be literally unable to stand before they'd take a day off work. For my mother's generation, it was really because if you didn't work, you didn't get paid. But for my wife's generation, it was more about letting your colleague's down. The work had to get done. If you didn't do it, either somebody else would, or it'd be there waiting for you when you got back.
Nobody ever had any of these 'imaginary' ailments. OK, I know there's nothing imaginary about depression or anxiety or what have you, but it's strange how they're so much less of a problem in those countries where if you don't work, you don't fucking eat.
I’m in the minority here in that I feel like Kayla gets a bad rap and is probably much more functional than anyone gives her credit for. People I know who have met her have only positive things to say about her.
I'm sure Kayla is perfectly personable in real life -- though I'm not sure how functional she could be. She'd be a lot more functional if she wasn't continually obsessing about her imaginary illnesses though.
I've never heard anybody suggest that she was a victim of CSA before though. Are you just speculating here?
