I'm not even on ML and I knew JLM was not real. I think I've only lurked over there like three or four times since we crossed over, so I thought it was kind of glaringly obvious.
Well, it's been no secret that she wasn't real. What came up today was that someone found the woman whose pictures jlm had STILL been passing off as her own (eta: on FB and IG) and that jlm and l&l were the same person.
Wasn't. There some. Connection between JLM and Dowanger Countess?
Excuse. The.periods. the.kids kindle. Is on all kinds of.crack.
DC was a staunch defender of jlm. eta: She scolded the rest of us for criticizing jlm for abandoning her second daughter because we should have known she was conceived through marital rape. She is also the one who talked to jlm's "sister" and learned that jlm was mentally unstable but how dare we question her about that either.
There is a separate issue where DC was outed as an unrelated troll.
Post by scribellesam on Apr 15, 2014 21:45:06 GMT -5
The whole JLM drama is what really sucked me into GBCN in the first place, so I'm always riveted when her name comes up again. So I get obsessed with reading these long threads and there's only ever about five posts worth reading in them.
I was also shocked that she wasn't real, and now I am very suspicious of anyone with a lot of drama and assume they're a catfish.
Yeah it is pretty disturbing at a high level. But I can't devote myself to reading 42 pages. I guess I'm a quitter.
Let's not turn on each other on MMM, guys. If we get a weird catfisher let's just band against them and leave everyone else out of it.
I can't do it, either. I dabbled but eh. I just don't care, I thought this was info we already knew, and I wasn't around ML for either of the original drama (just the tail end of jlm).
I'm quite proud at how quickly b!iss latest thread fizzled out on MM. That's the closest we have to a catfisher on the MM/MMM boards and I don't think she's a catfishes so much as just emotionally unstable.
I made it to page 23 and had to give up. Does anyone know what happened with Ottermama? She posted here a few times. They make her sound unstable.
She left after she was called out on whether she had properly thanked everyone who had bought gifts for her DD through the Amazon wishlist she set up on some MLers' insistence after her H lost his job right before Christmas, which then started people questioning how much a four-month-old really needs for Christmas, which brought up more questions about some of her stories – how the carbon monoxide poisoning didn't seem plausible, how she was considering leaving her H almost as soon as her adoption was finalized – as well as some rehashing of some of her actions under another name on the Nest. Then today it was revealed that she chose to stay in the ML Secret Santa even after she was given the option to back out when she admitted she couldn't afford to send a gift, so she let the organizer buy and send a gift for her and still accepted the gift sent to her.
I was sucked in too, made it to about page 50 on the app, was excited to read it during MOTN feedings, then DS had a good night of sleep. Just my luck! This summary helped, back to ML to catch up!!
Post by Velar Fricative on Apr 16, 2014 6:40:54 GMT -5
This week is full of drama. The ML drama is entertaining even though I knew relatively little on the backstory. Then there's the drama on CEP with a crazy anti-vaxxer threatening to sue Proboards and a bunch of posters for libel (or is it slander? I always mix the two up). I love it!
You know, I'm glad it turns out that the jlm thing was definitely fake. The idea of someone giving their younger child away after having raised her for almost a year was so disturbing to me. Not to mention the idea of discussing it with strangers on the a Internet. I didn't know which was more effed up.
Post by thebreakfastclub on Apr 16, 2014 7:31:58 GMT -5
It has evolved into an overall questioning about some posters who continuously have super dramatic things happening to them. I had kind of side eyed a couple of things, and I thought I was the only one. Guess not.
It also reminded me that I think someone joined MM in the day or two after the Boston bombings, claiming to have been there and was traumatized. That one seemed like utter BS from the start, although no one called it out at the time.
It has evolved into an overall questioning about some posters who continuously have super dramatic things happening to them. I had kind of side eyed a couple of things, and I thought I was the only one. Guess not.
It also reminded me that I think someone joined MM in the day or two after the Boston bombings, claiming to have been there and was traumatized. That one seemed like utter BS from the start, although no one called it out at the time.
I trust no one!
I think that same person joined CEP too and someone discovered she was fake (and was some former crazy poster or something). So your sense about people is excellent!
This is all so crazy. It would never even occur to me to make up fake stories, so I never assumed that anyone else was fake. Obviously I am quite gullible. I guess now I know.
This week is full of drama. The ML drama is entertaining even though I knew relatively little on the backstory. Then there's the drama on CEP with a crazy anti-vaxxer threatening to sue Proboards and a bunch of posters for libel (or is it slander? I always mix the two up). I love it!
The Megan Heimer anti-vac drama on CEP is far more interesting to me than the jlm ML thing. I can't stop lurking on CEP now.
So is ottermama suspected of being fake now, or just an ungrateful drama queen?
This week is full of drama. The ML drama is entertaining even though I knew relatively little on the backstory. Then there's the drama on CEP with a crazy anti-vaxxer threatening to sue Proboards and a bunch of posters for libel (or is it slander? I always mix the two up). I love it!
The Megan Heimer anti-vac drama on CEP is far more interesting to me than the jlm ML thing. I can't stop lurking on CEP now.
So is ottermama suspected of being fake now, or just an ungrateful drama queen?
I think just an ungrateful drama queen. I'm pretty sure sue sue has met her.
Post by thebreakfastclub on Apr 16, 2014 8:16:19 GMT -5
Megan Heimer is my new favorite person too.
I think otter is real, just sort of emotionally fragile and in a victim mentality. I felt like she brought that to MMM with her baby issues.
I remember that she had no idea how much formula to feed her newborn. I felt like someone who was adopting a baby, and knew the baby would be FF in advance, could take 20 minutes to go to similac.com and read their advice for quantities. 2 oz every 2 hours is not rocket science.