And that is the entire story of Jackie Blake in a nutshell. Disabled only when and as far as it fits her narrative of brave spoonie warrior. Will go to frankly astounding lengths to stay just sick enough but somehow miraculously never tips into an actual medical crisis. When this storyline gets played out, she will cycle right back around to whichever chronic condition she hasn’t trotted out lately.
This entire feeding tube drama/crisis is 100% because Judd wouldn’t enable her or go along with her on the MALS storyline. She trapped herself with the AFOs by showing how well she could actually function so she took one swing at shifting the AFO narrative and realized immediately that literally no one was going to buy that. Any time anyone in the world of Jaq gets in the way of her executing her chronic illness script, she goes to Drfcon One on whichever storyline she has actual control over. She will literally start ripping tubes out of her body rather than look at a future where she’s a normal young adult in a normal relationship aspiring to normal goals. She’s had a feeding tube for 8+ months, and she is so delusional that she actually doesn’t realize that just a few vlogs back she sat there and told the camera that she couldn’t stop looking at and handling her tube. She got her pain meds on board and gave everyone around her in her actual life a big fuck you and ripped that shit out rather than go along with the storyline she found herself in where because of the two tubes, the AFOs, the custom wheelchair, the service dog and a college that catered to her “disabilities”, she was going to have to start living an actual life.
Like Judd is 100% a garbage human being who has put right out on Twitter what he thinks of minorities and who is clearly jacked by the idea of being a cop but he better for real make sure he’s behind the camera when he’s alone with Jaq because if/when she’s forcibly stabilized and runs out of illnesses to play dress up with, he is going to be the next crisis she manufactures and good fucking luck convincing everyone she’s faking and that he’s not an asshole who is cheating on her or whatever other appalling storyline she’s drafting in her head. In the cage match of “big healthy egotistical cop” vs “frail malnourished helpless spoonie” he is fuuuuucked. Whatever his life goals were at 16, somehow I don’t think they looked like this slow rolling trash heap tsunami. He definitely no longer has the upper hand here and being in possession of Harlow is about the only chip he’s got left.
No joke, Karma is a biiiitch.
