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[UT 514]

It may be from the antipsychoticshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805387/

That was both fascinating and terrifying. I didn't realize how much skeletal damage could be done through medication. I worry the kids will have some serious health difficulties like osteoporosis. Yikes.

 

[bluehydrangea]

I know I said this before. But, seriously. I have seen Jani scratching her vagina or ass multiple times in videos. Its sad Susan can’t even teach her children appropriate hygiene and public manners.

Ugh, that makes me feel so bad for her. That behavior is going to become increasingly offputting the older she gets, and is going to get her even more negative attention in public when she's an adult. Sad to say, but without intervention soon she will most likely look awful as she ages. Between (most likely) being more overweight, having unkempt hair, the lazy eye, the stims, and scratching her privates, she's going to stick out like a sore thumb, and by then I'm sure Susan will have dumped her somewhere with no one to protect her once she can no longer make money from her.

We talk a lot about the damage the meds have done but the way Susan has raised the kids is probably more damaging. There’s plenty of epically fucking up teenagers and adults that had manic, BPD parents who never gave them any psych meds but they are still trainwrecks thanks to the emotional/psychological abuse they endured. (Obviously some kids survive it and thrive, but many are permanently damaged and dysfunctional from it. For instance Attachment disorders make it near impossible for people to bond and form relationships with others as adults.)

Actual, real therapy would do wonders for the kids.
Getting removed from Susan’s custody is the best possible thing that could happen to them, but it’s probably too late for that to make a big long term difference, particularly with Jani. You can’t erase and reprogram the first 16 years.

My only hope is that maybe with Jani and Bodhi the meds have fogged up their brains so bad the emotional and psychological abuse isn’t as deeply engrained because their short term memory is borked to hell.

The meds obviously make everything far worse as far as their functioning but maybe they created a little protective bubble around their brain preventing some of Susan’s manic emotional abuse from being too deeply etched on their psyche. Maybe it will one day off meds it will feel akin to a nightmare they awake from. Probably way too optimistic but it’s hard not to try and find some ray of hope in this shit sundae.
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Yeah, basically with or without the meds in the equation the kids would've almost certainly been irreprably fucked because of their environment and Susan's "parenting." I'm also curious about how much impact the antipsychotics have on memory and how they affect processing of trauma. But typical drugs of abuse don't generally prevent the encoding and storage of traumatic memories, they just dull the emotional response the user experiences during the memory retrieval process. That's one reason treating addiction is so hard because once the substance is stopped, all the memories experienced before or during use all come flooding back even if the addict appeared to be in a total stupor while they were on them. I'm not sure if that's comparable to how antipsychs work, but one can only hope they provide more of a bubble.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

That was both fascinating and terrifying. I didn't realize how much skeletal damage could be done through medication. I worry the kids will have some serious health difficulties like osteoporosis. Yikes.

The fact that Susan obsession with anti-psychotic drugs has never extended to reading or caring about the terrifying laundry list of side effects, esp in regards to minors, is shocking. I’m sure many of the fifty doctors she visited point blank told her they would never Rx these drugs to Bodhi due to (insert 178 awful side effects and dangers here) and she didn’t listen to a word of it. Obviously the doctors just don’t want to give her kids these drugs because $$$$$.

Her complete disregard for their long term health because shes too manic and busy posting about how much she loves her kids on FB.

I know Dr Phil wasn’t good for the kids, but if nothing else it will result in Susan being publicly revealed for the crazy abusive psycho she is before a national audience. She will have angry moms screaming and spitting on her in public. Her delusions of being a mental health mamma warrior needs to brutally smashed before her eyes and ridiculed endlessly.

It’s a great final retort to all the awful BS puff pieces that encouraged this shit show. I hope it makes Discovery stop re-airing her specials. Even better if it would spur actual investigative shows to cover her history of abuse.

I’m sure it will bring immense satisfaction to all the teachers and medical professionals who have had to deal with her over the years.

The fact she got away with such extreme medical abuse and negligence while extensively documenting it online using the shields of “mental illness, autism, advocacy, awareness” should be a wake-up call. Susan is an extreme case but there are many mini- Susan’s getting lots of encouragement online for similar behaviors while trumpeting what brave, strong mothers they are fighting for their kids. Puke.

 

[Barbarella]

I loved the part when the officiant says something like, “with all their friends and family present in support..” and Bodhi is standing with his back to them drooling, with his fingers pressing against his palate.

It’s Susan’s wedding day. Maybe she couldn’t afford much like new clothes, but Jani’s shoes were two sizes too big, her hair was unkept as always and yeah, she was constantly scratching her butt and pulling her dress out of her butt crack.

She sat quietly through part of the wedding but as soon as her mom spoke she started her hand rubbing thing, and was soon on stage where she didn’t belong. You’d expect that from a 3 year old, not a 14 year old.

It’s nice to see her happy but she grabbed the mic from the DJ once when he clearly wasn’t ready and as always, nobody corrected her. I do and always have thought her issues were because of a lack of parenting, not autism, and it was all compounded by drugs.

Nobody ever told that girl to stand up straight, to sit quietly and not touch privates in public. She could understand that and even if she was mentally ill, your goal should be to teach them to be in society. That includes simple manners.

 

[Death Grip]

How is the weather in California at the moment? I've been reading that there is a lot of rain.
Hopefully that combined with no youtube channel is making primary caretaker itchy on the inside to the nth degree

 

[limegreen]

This is from awhile back (Screechy and Creepster's wedding day, to be specific) but I found it tonight and am guessing from the low number of views, it hasn't been posted here before? From doing a quick search on the username of the YouTuber who uploaded it, it appears to be courtesy of Screechy's elusive brother.

There are some moments that are absolutely nauseating (i.e. the vows, the two monsters dancing around to "Hotel California", and especially a sickening speech at the reception about how kind and loving Susan is -- is the lady spouting that nonsense the friend who introduced them?) and Bodhi is obviously on some heavy cocktail of Thorazine and heaven only knows what else. I did smile, however, at Jani singing karaoke; she's no singer, but she at least seems to be having fun and not under duress like in most of Susan's videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEG7dzgpIwc

The channel has a few videos posted and one of them is of Susan's brother on stage doing an Elvis act. I won't post it here because it's not that relevant but since he's so elusive some might want to check it out.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

I loved the part when the officiant says something like, “with all their friends and family present in support..” and Bodhi is standing with his back to them drooling, with his fingers pressing against his palate.

It’s Susan’s wedding day. Maybe she couldn’t afford much like new clothes, but Jani’s shoes were two sizes too big, her hair was unkept as always and yeah, she was constantly scratching her butt and pulling her dress out of her butt crack.

She sat quietly through part of the wedding but as soon as her mom spoke she started her hand rubbing thing, and was soon on stage where she didn’t belong. You’d expect that from a 3 year old, not a 14 year old.

It’s nice to see her happy but she grabbed the mic from the DJ once when he clearly wasn’t ready and as always, nobody corrected her. I do and always have thought her issues were because of a lack of parenting, not autism, and it was all compounded by drugs.

Nobody ever told that girl to stand up straight, to sit quietly and not touch privates in public. She could understand that and even if she was mentally ill, your goal should be to teach them to be in society. That includes simple manners.

It’s sad but true. This is one of the major reasons I think Jani is so isolated. While Susan has certainly prevented relationship with others Jani’s lack of self-awareness is a huge obstacle. She’s had no real guidance to proper behavior so she clueless about basic interactions with peers that combined with her need to be the center of attention has prevented her from making friends at school. She would be very alienating even to other special needs kids. The lack of boundaries and discipline in her homelife makes the expectations of behavior at school completely alien to her.

It’s one major reason Jani loves animals, there’s no expectations or social pressure. I think Jani is oblivious to social cues. She’s only had Susan as a model for her social behavior and how to interact with others so that’s about the worst role model possible.

It’s all only served to ensure Susan is the only person in her life. It’s also why she’s so starved for attention from anyone else that she wanted to spend time alone with Cory.

 

[Rabidcolombian]

I know I said this before. But, seriously. I have seen Jani scratching her vagina or ass multiple times in videos. Its sad Susan can’t even teach her children appropriate hygiene and public manners.

My favorite part was towards the end when one of Susan's friends was giving a toast and during the middle of it, Susan just takes the microphone and gives her own speech while her friend (around four times, I counted!) awkwardly keeps trying to take it back.

How is it even possible to look so self centered on your own wedding day? Susan managed to do it.

 

[kitty shit]

The worst part about the Jani-being-totally-oblivious-to-any-and-all-social-cues-thing is that it could've been so easy to avoid it - even if she actually was schizophrenic (which she isn't) or had Asperger's. I mean, I've never met one single person with either of the diagnoses that scratch their privates in public, for example. Sure, maybe low functioning autists do, but Jani is not that. Not in a billion years. All it takes is some proper parenting. Hell, it doesn't even have to be great parenting - as long as it's parenting.

On a brighter note... Even at 16 I genuinely don't believe it's too late for Jani to learn not to touch her ass in public and some social norms such as that you're supposed to be sitting still and not act disturbing while going to a wedding. Too bad nobody's ever gonna teach her.

 

[HyggeandHof]

If the Medi-cal is a medicaid based program then she can use it anywhere on US territory. That means any hospital in the country that takes medicaid, has to take medi-cal, same for er and urgent care. She is completely aware of this im sure and is searching out ways to get multiple scripts as we speak! They are state to state based programs, but all use the same billing methods so if you needed to travel out of state youd be covered.

This isn't true. The ED you'd be fine, because they have to see everyone under the law. CA MediCal might reimburse some of it, but it probably wouldn't be a free trip like an ED in the home state would be. Urgent cares are variable, and some are privately owned. Some don't take any MediCaid, or only certain plans (is: we'll take Americaid but not United Community Plan. Both of these areMediCaid plans.) Probably no UC in all of Texas would accept out-of-state MediCaid. They're not under the same obligation to see everyone that EDs are.

I hope to God someone behind the scenes is cooking something up because this is unbelievable. She has hit every criteria of inflicting fabricated or induced illness on a child. Maybe I'm just not seeing something here because I'm English, I don't know. Socialized medicine is fucking horrible, it's an awful system, but at least munchies are caught fast, there's nowhere to run or hide.

Interesting. Guess the grass is always greener... (Goes for Brits and Americans)

This is from awhile back (Screechy and Creepster's wedding day, to be specific) but I found it tonight and am guessing from the low number of views, it hasn't been posted here before? From doing a quick search on the username of the YouTuber who uploaded it, it appears to be courtesy of Screechy's elusive brother.

There are some moments that are absolutely nauseating (i.e. the vows, the two monsters dancing around to "Hotel California", and especially a sickening speech at the reception about how kind and loving Susan is -- is the lady spouting that nonsense the friend who introduced them?) and Bodhi is obviously on some heavy cocktail of Thorazine and heaven only knows what else. I did smile, however, at Jani singing karaoke; she's no singer, but she at least seems to be having fun and not under duress like in most of Susan's videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEG7dzgpIwc

This was posted before, and I suffered through it and definitely can't again. Susan looks like a $5 hooker in that awful dress, and I can't get over how religious the ceremony when Cory claims to be so violently atheist. Also the fact that the tard wrangler gets included in the wedding pictures is just bizarre. @MirnaMinkoff I didn't see Susan's brother there either. It was mostly the Susan show though, and I wouldn't blame him for staying as far away as possible from his sister.

 

[Umaibae]

The wedding video is blocked in my country, so,if anyone archives it, please share.

 

[CN 925]

Most of the severely autistic people and people with down syndrome I've met can follow basic social rules, and they do, rigidly, because it's a skill they were taught. Sure, it doesn't come naturally, but that's why you teach them.

It's frustrating and sad seeing 14-year-old Jani with her hand in her ass cheeks and Bodhi picking his mouth apart because it was so preventable. These kids should have been so average.

Susan could have happened to any of us.

 

[Yetta]

Does anyone know when the Texas trip is supposed to take place?

 

[multiverse]

No idea when she leaves, but she's been manically posting to Facebook for the past hour. From her public posts:

More paranoia about vaccines. Susan doesn't seem to have gotten as far as "autoimmune illnesses" in the so called article. Perhaps her new stance will be that both her kids were given the same schizophrenia and autism due to the same vaccines. While this might go over okay in Texas, it certainly won't lead to any psychiatric medicines.


And for some reason she needed to post this twice, with different captions. I dont believe she understands deletion or editing on Facebook.

 

[Jd1]

The children are in the state that they are in, for no other reason than she wanted them to be.

If Susan wanted to sedate people for a living she should have become a anaesthetist... simple!!

 

[multiverse]

If Susan wanted to sedate people for a living she should have become an anaesthesiologist... simple!!

Susan has admitted - nay, bragged - that she had absolutely no idea how a calculator worked, and once hired a tutor to teach Jani this mysterious skill. You see, using calculators falls under "science" for her, and she's adamant that she doesn't understaaaaand science.

Which makes her insistence that she knows exactly what psychiatric medications her children need to cure them (of moving and looking at things) extra baffling.

 

[KeepHopeAlive]

Susan has admitted - nay, bragged - that she had absolutely no idea how a calculator worked, and once hired a tutor to teach Jani this mysterious skill. You see, using calculators falls under "science" for her, and she's adamant that she doesn't understaaaaand science.

Which makes her insistence that she knows exactly what psychiatric medications her children need to cure them (of moving and looking at things) extra baffling.

That point was made hardcore on the show. She's not qualified and her harassing Bodhi to tell her if he needed meds was brilliantly illuminated as to her crazy. Phil rammed that home.

Edited to avoid double posting: Based on Susan's text about giving Bodhi Thorazine a few hours after the show and "logging" it with the ABA Therapists, is she being actively monitored about what she gives Bodhi now? It doesn't seem to make much sense that she'd log it with the ABA they don't prescribe(but she probably feels more simpatico with them thus attempting to give her Thorazine dosing some credibility). She informed DCFS tho which makes me wonder if she was given specific drug parameters. She's never asked "permission" before that we've seen.

 

[Jd1]

Susan has admitted - nay, bragged - that she had absolutely no idea how a calculator worked, and once hired a tutor to teach Jani this mysterious skill. You see, using calculators falls under "science" for her, and she's adamant that she doesn't understaaaaand science.

Which makes her insistence that she knows exactly what psychiatric medications her children need to cure them (of moving and looking at things) extra baffling.

I don’t think for one moment she would have had the ability to actually take that route but it’s essentially was her vocation is!

To want to calculate the dosage to minimise any potential risk, would require commonsense, a conscience, morales and compassion. Susan lacks all. She just doesn’t care that she’s playing Russian roulette with her children’s lives!

 

[WEEDle]

The wedding video is blocked in my country, so,if anyone archives it, please share.

You could download the original video even though it's blocked using this site: https://qdownloader.net/youtube-video-downloader just enter the original video URL which is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEG7dzgpIwc

I downloaded it after reading the description of Susan interrupting her friend's speech, grabbing the mic from her and the friend tries, and fails, several times to awkwardly take it back. It did not disappoint. Very awkward, cringy and amusing. Shame that the video cut to something else after that, I bet the friend was trying to take the mic back for a looong time.

 

[Fattyroad]

Did someone from here friend Cory on fb?