I cannot stress enough how thoroughly normal it is for rich white women with emotional problems to marry within their social circle and spend the rest of their lives doing fuck all and being praised for it.
If she had limited her munching to anxiety and depression and didn't spite her parents by cutting her tits off and getting into scatplay, she would easily be married to some rich pushover. She could still be dicking around in NYU if she wanted to, or she could donate of hubby's money to a disability charity and be doing speeches for other rich assholes and getting the asspats she craves.
Tumblr really fucked Vicky up and instead of living the White Lotus lifestyle that was her birthright, she's turning her powerchair into the tilt-a-whirl while spraying diarrhea onto a they/them adjunct and a crowd of horrified undergrads
Plenty of teens, of both genders, buck at the idea they will have a “conventional life” seeing themselves as supremely special, unique and destined for something far more exciting and exotic in life. But wealthy kids tend to be extra stupid in this department because they take for granted their level of affluence and think of it as a permanent way of life regardless of their actions.
Vicky obviously thinks her affluence is a permanent condition.
She covets being poor, victimized and oppressed because she is none of those things and it means she doesn’t have to compete with her peers. Vicky would have to be smart and hard working to compete academically with her peers. She would need to be socially intelligent, adept and clever to compete socially. She couldn’t even be the richest girl at her school, there were kids with much wealthier parents.
The only way Vicky could compete and be “extra unique” and stand out was to never compete for the top, but to race to the bottom. Sure lots of teens in Vicky’s high school got into Yale, Stanford and Harvard. Plenty of classmates secured coveted internships, jobs or are showing off their jet setting or hiking around the globe on IG.
But Vicky is the only Solebury white girl grad who can announce she’s a now a MAN, a LBGTQWTFBBG, asexual, disabled, POC, ED survivor, autistic, chronic illness zebra pretending to poor and on Medicaid as a 6th year freshman at NYU!!! Also all that shit sounds way better than the truth: she’s a 26 year old mentally ill, drug addicted failure dependent on her parents. (She would have a several Solebury peers in the drug addicted, mentally ill, parent dependent department but the window dressing and labels Vicky has selected make her much better and more special than those rich kids.)
That's the beauty of it, Vicky could have married a rich pushover and then developed fibromyalgia and turned into a disability warrior, all while being looked after financially and emotionally. Throw in some Long Covid and ME/CFS and she probably could have finagled a team of round-the-clock maids to wipe her ass for her.
Vicky was too dumb, shortsighted and impulsive to understand the best route to being a pampered, drug addict, munchie was easily within her reach.
What’s particularly sad with her is she was so drawn to extremes, stubbornness and doubling down when her parents tried to course correct her. She did manage to sabotage the advantages she had. The best she can hope for is continuing pity, generosity and patience from her family to maintain her farcical life. At best she might be the beneficiary of an irrevocable trust but it will in no way provide the lifestyle she enjoyed the first 20 years of life. It’s the rich girl version of living on SSI.