Amberlynn Reid - 600 pound pathological liar and U-Haul lesbian moving in with her next live-in maid/nurse/girlfriend.

[WeDon'tNeedToWhisper]

@xenomorph should be the new mod, it's been discussed elsewhere, I'm thunkful as to why it's not happening.

 

[Twinkie]

Her narcissism comes across as just her inability to understand how her actions and the things she says impact the people around her. She's just unable to think outside of herself and her immediate needs.

Yes. What you're describing is empathy. A narcissist is someone who struggles mightily with empathy and in many cases they're altogether incapable of experiencing it. It's also something we see in very young children because empathy isn't something we're born with it's something we develop as we mature. Hence someone lacking in empathy could be described as narcissistic or as emotionally immature. They're interchangeable in that context. A lot of narcissistic behaviors like gaslighting, triangulation and stonewalling are also basically tools of the trade for tiny irrational children as well.

 

[sammyrdurham]

gaslighting, triangulation and stonewalling are also basically tools of the trade for tiny irrational children as well

Well, there you go, that might explain why she is such a narc.

She never grew up on her own. She needed a caretaker ever since she was 342 or whatever her starting weight was in 2013 when she started vlogging. She jumped ship from the comfort of one of her gf's house to the next one is so on. Krystal's parents (I think) were giving her $1400 every month for no reason, all she did was stay indoors and eat or go out in town to eat some more while only being surrounded by people who she was in a toxic relationship with because of the disgusting fetish they have about getting Amber bigger by feeding her.

 

[Twinkie]

I've legit wondered if having financial stability for a few years has afforded her the opportunity to develop more empathy and be less of a narc (even if we don't necessarily see improvement in her content) because while she obviously still needs a caretaker she's not worried about being homeless and utterly destitute or whatever so she doesn't have that stress; her life is more stable overall.

Because it's theorized that emotional instability/early childhood trauma is what causes most people to develop into narcs. They don't develop empathy because their early lives are too fucked up for them to focus on that, among other things. Probably not, she doesn't seem motivated to change much about herself. But I've wondered.

 

[tarrant]

I know others have mentioned it before but I still think that the theory that Al's life in foster care really wasn't that bad, might be true. I mean it's shit for most kids, but there's a difference between something being shit and actively suffering. If it was an interesting or awful story it would seem likely that she would've milked it for video views by now. I don't recall from memory how long she was with her biological family though, so I don't know if that was long enough for her to develop her narc tendencies.

 

[a bootiful jung woman]

I know others have mentioned it before but I still think that the theory that Al's life in foster care really wasn't that bad, might be true. I mean it's shit for most kids, but there's a difference between something being shit and actively suffering. If it was an interesting or awful story it would seem likely that she would've milked it for video views by now. I don't recall from memory how long she was with her biological family though, so I don't know if that was long enough for her to develop her narc tendencies.

She has made videos about it. And is it something you would have enjoyed - or want for any kids in your life? Amber's a piece of shit human but parlaying having such drug-addicted parents you are taken away from them into foster care care into a sort of summer camp experience is a reach.

 

[Damaged Goods]

She has made videos about it. And is it something you would have enjoyed - or want for any kids in your life? Amber's a piece of shit human but parlaying having such drug-addicted parents you are taken away from them into foster care care into a sort of summer camp experience is a reach.

Yeah, I don't get why so many people feel the need to downplay what she went through as a kid. Like saying she probably wasn't even molested like she said or that she's actually luck to have been in foster care because all her needs were taken care of by the government. The gorl ate road meth ffs. And she was separated from all 3 of her siblings, 2 of whom she never saw again. Then they got her hopes up and placed her with he parents again for a probationary period, which obviously failed, so she was shipped off again. That would be traumatic for any child. Just because she wasn't literally tortured by any of her foster parents or group home staff doesn't mean "it wasn't that bad".

Should she be using her messed up childhood to avoid responsibility for her actions and to deflect criticism? No. But admitting she had it rough when she was young doesn't mean you're excusing her abhorrent behavior in the present. There's no need to minimize what she went through -- you can be abused/neglected as a kid AND be a cunt as an adult, you know?

 

[Snusmumriken]

Yeah, I don't get why so many people feel the need to downplay what she went through as a kid. Like saying she probably wasn't even molested like she said or that she's actually luck to have been in foster care because all her needs were taken care of by the government. The gorl ate road meth ffs. And she was separated from all 3 of her siblings, 2 of whom she never saw again. Then they got her hopes up and placed her with he parents again for a probationary period, which obviously failed, so she was shipped off again. That would be traumatic for any child. Just because she wasn't literally tortured by any of her foster parents or group home staff doesn't mean "it wasn't that bad".

Should she be using her messed up childhood to avoid responsibility for her actions and to deflect criticism? No. But admitting she had it rough when she was young doesn't mean you're excusing her abhorrent behavior in the present. There's no need to minimize what she went through -- you can be abused/neglected as a kid AND be a cunt as an adult, you know?

We didn’t want to hear it but it needed to be said. A winner is you.

 

[sammyrdurham]

Quick thought: when she starts her vlogs by saying that she just rolled out of bed, it's sad that she means it literally.

 

[Fubby]

every narc or sociopath is that way for a reason, it's no coincidence almost every serial killer has a tragic upbringing, it would be stupider to believe that she made up her childhood trauma and is just an attention-seeking liar for no reason. If you think 100% of what she says is false then you're kidding yourself, statistically, she has to be telling the truth sometimes even if it's embellished in lies. Her childhood explains completely why she is the way she is, it makes a lot of sense, but it doesn't excuse it. Everyone has awful circumstances for their dysfunction, but it's the good ones who try their best to get out of it. People who take it on as an identity and even monetize off of it are doomed to let it destroy them. All we can do is watch it happen.

 

[Phalanx]

Yeah the whole ohhh she was abused reasoning a lot of her sycophants give is just incredibly vapid and lacks any forethought. So by that reasoning every abused individual as a child will be a hateful walking textbook for narcissism, which is so far from the truth, a lot of people who were abused etc tend to be in positions of justice and safeguarding to prevent further things happening. Also nurses, gym instructors funnily enough seem to have traumatic shit happen to them.

Remember too Amber is a prolific liar we know a lot of shit she has said about her childhood was revoked by Tammy, Personally I think she grossly exaggerates or has done so to build that victim narrative. One thing reoccurring with her constantly from all the gfs etc and Tammy is that she ALWAYS played the victim and that is not very common with a lot of abuse victims they tend to be incredibly withdrawn and conceal that information. Case in point Boogie his abuse narrative is the same as Amber's I gives me PTSD etc etc which gives abuse survivors a bad rep.

Often with narcissists too is that they tend to exhibit their behaviour without any influence, they tend to be born not fostered sadly.

 

[L. Ron Hubbard's Cat]

Yeah, I don't get why so many people feel the need to downplay what she went through as a kid. Like saying she probably wasn't even molested like she said or that she's actually luck to have been in foster care because all her needs were taken care of by the government. The gorl ate road meth ffs. And she was separated from all 3 of her siblings, 2 of whom she never saw again. Then they got her hopes up and placed her with he parents again for a probationary period, which obviously failed, so she was shipped off again. That would be traumatic for any child. Just because she wasn't literally tortured by any of her foster parents or group home staff doesn't mean "it wasn't that bad".

Should she be using her messed up childhood to avoid responsibility for her actions and to deflect criticism? No. But admitting she had it rough when she was young doesn't mean you're excusing her abhorrent behavior in the present. There's no need to minimize what she went through -- you can be abused/neglected as a kid AND be a cunt as an adult, you know?

I agree that it was shitty and traumatizing. I don't wish that on anyone -- especially a little kid -- and I don't doubt it fucked her up in a lot of ways.

That said, being accurate about her experience isn't minimizing it. She wasn't beaten, raped, starved, or locked in a cage at night. If her parents hadn't gone to jail (and if the rest of her family hadn't been unwilling to take the three kids) she likely wouldn't have been removed from the home in the first place. There were a lot of negatives -- obviously -- but she also had a lot of support and resources provided to her in order to help offset those. She wasn't left to fend for herself, even within the system. Her life in foster care wasn't great. It also wasn't abusive, and there were multiple attempts made to reunite her with her family throughout (except for her infant brother who was adopted out). It was shitty, it was stressful, it left a lasting impact. It wasn't a living nightmare. This is all by her own admission.

I think it's important to remember these facts whenever talking about her childhood, because she's a manipulator and a liar. That's all I'm saying.

 

[Fubby]

Yeah the whole ohhh she was abused reasoning a lot of her sycophants give is just incredibly vapid and lacks any forethought. So by that reasoning every abused individual as a child will be a hateful walking textbook for narcissism, which is so far from the truth, a lot of people who were abused etc tend to be in positions of justice and safeguarding to prevent further things happening. Also nurses, gym instructors funnily enough seem to have traumatic shit happen to them.

Remember too Amber is a prolific liar we know a lot of shit she has said about her childhood was revoked by Tammy, Personally I think she grossly exaggerates or has done so to build that victim narrative. One thing reoccurring with her constantly from all the gfs etc and Tammy is that she ALWAYS played the victim and that is not very common with a lot of abuse victims they tend to be incredibly withdrawn and conceal that information. Case in point Boogie his abuse narrative is the same as Amber's I gives me PTSD etc etc which gives abuse survivors a bad rep.

Often with narcissists too is that they tend to exhibit their behaviour without any influence, they tend to be born not fostered sadly.

That's not entirely true, a lot of it is up to debate with the whole nature vs nurture thing, but it is more uncommon for someone to be born a narcissist. Maybe she is naturally a selfish person, but it seems fairly clear that it's as bad as it is because of the coping mechanisms she developed while growing up unwanted, unloved, and out of control. My point with Amber is not that all people who are abused turn into narcs, but that all people who suffer from abuse have some trauma that they have to deal with, and the ones who deal with it are the ones that overcome it. some can never deal with it and still be good people, but a big part of why Amber is the way she is because she refuses to go to therapy and realize that her past is still dictating her future and unless she faces it she will continue to cope the only way she knows how which is online validation and binge eating. She was never shown love as a kid so she doesn't feel love normally and the only way she knows how to control people is to buy their affection with money. I'm not being sympathetic to her or defending her, it's just common sense that everyone's childhood plays a big part in why they act the way they do today.

 

[StrawberryDouche]

I do not understand the Aunt Tammy hagiography perpetuated by many. She's scummy herself and doesn't have a lot of first hand knowledge of Amber's early childhood.

She busted out some texts which reveal that Amber is -gasp!- a pedantic liar; things that Amber proves every time she vlogs or posts on SM.

 

[Twinkie]

I do not understand the Aunt Tammy hagiography perpetuated by many. She's scummy herself and doesn't have a lot of first hand knowledge of Amber's early childhood.

She busted out some texts which reveal that Amber is -gasp!- a pedantic liar; things that Amber proves every time she vlogs or posts on SM.

Part of it is triangulation ie by exalting Tammie people are indirectly shitting on Amberlynn. But also, Tammie did try to help Amberlynn and was supportive of her for years even when AL made ridiculous, disrespectful videos about family members. Amberlynn took her support for granted. Then, when Amberlynn's mom got out of prison Tammie was committed to helping her. By that time Tammie had realized how toxic Amberlynn was and Tammie was devoted to helping Amberlynn's mom stay clean and survive cancer, and that included shielding her from toxic influences including Amberlynn.

So that's pretty cool of her. And knowing Amberlynn, if she had dirt on Tammie we would've heard about it by now especially since Tammie pissed her off so bad. That being said, we don't know Tammie's whole story and it's been forever since we've heard anything from or about her, so it all may have gone to hell for Tammie at this point anyway.

I do think it speaks volumes that Tammie knew Amberlynn's mother when she was at peak crackhead (homeless and everything) and still ultimately decided she was less of a shitty person than Amberlynn.

 

[beanbag in a hurry]

I've little to no hope of finding this video again, but I recently saw one from the Destiny era where aunt Tammy had sent them gifts (it was some scarves, I think) along with one of those yearly photo-postcard type of situations. Destiny took half a glance at it and found it approriate to chime in: "Tammy looks big."
This absolute potato.

 

[Erins Wifey]

It could be worse. She could have dressed up in some of the ridiculous sausage casings Glitterandlazers tends to wear.

Oh Lord! Is she a cow?? If not she needs to be! She's a sweaty mess

 

[Twinkie]

Oh Lord! Is she a cow?? If not she needs to be! She's a sweaty mess

She's covered in the fat acceptance thread

 

[Punkinsplice]

Oh Lord! Is she a cow?? If not she needs to be! She's a sweaty mess

she is a regular on the FA thread, but she doesn't have her own thread. Edit: Ninja'd!

 

[Phalanx]

I do not understand the Aunt Tammy hagiography perpetuated by many. She's scummy herself and doesn't have a lot of first hand knowledge of Amber's early childhood.

She busted out some texts which reveal that Amber is -gasp!- a pedantic liar; things that Amber proves every time she vlogs or posts on SM.

Whilst Tammy may not be the greatest character, she provided us farmers with insight that was useful and that was Amber's polytheistic lying, we knew so but only had the Casey stuff and kiwi uttering that she was. Tammy gave insight into her past and also debunked a vast majority of her sob story.

When someone gives evidence personally I dont give a crap who they are if it checks out and debunks the other / vice versa, its all about evidence tbh. Tammy strikes me as someone who wants to help her sister and her family. Amber burnt that bridge and was talking shit about her sister when she was detoxing/with cancer and/or. She probably got pissed and decided to clapback. We also don't know if She was dragged into the drug would by Amber's father but it is a possibility he seems very domineering, so its possible that she wanted to get out, cancer especially does the to people. It makes people get out of bad habits you get people who immediately stop smoking or drinking because its preservation.