Yes. That’s exactly what she did.
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ETA: “you will truly love those less fortunate”
Like by having your kid estranged states and countries away living in adult day care begging for $5 for soda, unwelcomed in the family. Otherwise you’re just a fake, right Myrna?
Myrna isn’t to blame for Lucas. But she isn’t NOT to blame either.
See, this is what I'm talking about with Myrna: her "worst fear" is him getting beaten to death in an alley somewhere? Really? Because to me, it seems like a BIGGER fear must be dealing with the embarrassment and shame of another family Christmas with Lucas sitting at the same table as his brother's wives and girlfriends. THAT seems like a bigger fear than Lucas getting the beating that his own mother knows has been a LOOOOONG time coming. Because if she was so worried about alley-stomped Lucas, she could... Let him live with her and stepdad? Or Dad and stepmom? Just don't bullshit us; don't act like his safety is your primary concern and then leave him to "survive" on the streets. One or the other. Either admit that Lucas is
uniquely horrible, or let him back in.
It's the fact that she tries to have it both ways: she writes about Lucas as if he's an innocent victim of circumstance, as if he's just a little paper boat, being tossed on the sea of severe mental illness. But then, she makes a point of keeping Lucas estranged from the family. Because she does indeed know who Lucas is, the way he is, and how horrible he is, just like all of us. But she never acknowledges this.
When she writes these sort of ass-pat-seeking posts, it's always acting as if she's a poor aggrieved mother, dealing with a son that's affected by mental illness; she never mentions the anger and frustration that comes from having a son who not only won't help himself, but has unique problems that go FAR beyond his mental illness and can really be laid at the feet of with the way he was raised to view the world, NOT his bipolar condition.
In short, Lucas's own mother must know just how horrible Lucas is better than any of us, but in everything she writes about him, she writes as if he's got down syndrome or something; just an innocent victim. Not Lucas Werner.
This is the REAL reason why her writing rubs me the wrong way. It's so obviously trying to create an impression that she's a beleaguered mother, but it smacks of inauthenticity.
Edit: also, she always makes a point of saying Lucas "has a kind heart". Like he's simple, but he tries. A retard with a heart of gold, if you will. But, we all know that one of Lucas's most significant problems is that he DOESN'T have a good heart, right?
Lucas only cares about himself. He's unique in the way he views interactions between people, literally expecting to get something back whenever he does something for a supposed "friend". All of his supposedly beneficent gestures, whether donating food, or giving weed to Isaac, were all because he expected something in return. He was either showing the world how noble he was by feeding the homeless to try to help himself get a girl, or he was helping Isaac directly because he expected that phone numbers would come from the interaction.
In fact, I think the only reason why he struck up a friendship with Isaac particularly was in part due to how young Isaac was, and the fact that he saw Isaac around girls. This is why he singled Isaac out over some of the other homeless people he interacted with. This is not having a good heart.
Being homeless, and then the minute you get an apartment lording it over other homeless people, this is not having a good heart. This isn't even a normal human level of empathy, where it's easier for you to identify with someone's struggles because you've experienced them yourself. Lucas is so self-oriented, that his worldview is almost solipsistic. He's ready to rearrange the laws of sexual interaction between men and women, to try to create an easier road for himself. He's willing to rewrite the laws of science and DNA, and prohibit men under the age of 35 from having sex, to try to thin the herd and advantage himself. This is not having a good heart. This is a level of tit-for-tat self-interest and selfishness that is so brazenly single-minded... There's simply no room for caring about anyone else in Lucas's worldview.
Even the thing Lucas has sought for so long, his fabled relationship with a young woman; we all know he doesn't really want a relationship with an individual. This is why he doesn't woo individual women. He just wants a body he can fuck, and someone who does what he wants...a Stepford Wife. What a good heart.
