TIME Blogger attacks Audra for Tony Speech
Jun 10 2014, 12:29:46 PM
Sorry, Belinda Luscombe, You Need Attention-
Isn't being an unknown blogger and lousy mother enough? Do you have to start attacking innocents as well?
Dear Ms. Luscombe -
I’m unfamiliar with your work. Who isn’t? Oh, those of us who just became aware of your noxious existence through your warrantless attack on Audra McDonald in your TIME blog. You take Ms. McDonald to task for thanking her parents for not medicating her as a child.
For those mercifully unaware of your “pay attention to ME” blog, I’ve broken it down:
Paragraph 1- YOU (allegedly) love (Audra)
Paragraph 2- YOU love (her dress)
Paragraph 3- YOU hope your kids will thank YOU someday; you infer that you are your husband are superior because you have children and are, you know, HUMAN; you put down Audra for having relatives who are musical; you admit your family is NOT musical or talented and that your parents were not supportive
Paragraph 4- parenting is HARD- you admit you SHOUT at your child, which could be considered child abuse
Paragraph 5- you admit you are anxious- you complain you don’t get a trophy- you put her down for being talented and say your child isn’t- you further illustrate how resentful you are
Paragraph 6- you delusionally think she was specifically singling YOU out in her speech; again you put her down for being accomplished; at what point in the speech did she tell people to NOT use drugs- she’s not a Scientologist? It wasn’t Romper Room where she looked in her Magic Mirror to single people out by name
Paragraph- Brave you for being a martyr; Audra’s accomplishments aren’t that great and may easily be bettered; you think you’re just swell.
Your blog tells us much more about you than the plight of children and parents who suffer with ADHD. You are resentful Ms. McDonald is accomplished while YOU, wonderful, poor put upon you has SO much to deal with- it must be challenging to have a child who acts out. Why aren’t YOU being recognized and lauded for being so swell- some poor writer who didn’t have four members of her family in a gospel singing group, who doesn’t wear a “seriously kickass red and white gown”, someone whose own child doesn’t have talent?
There’s something called Muchausen Syndrome, which is a psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves. You might want to research that and deal with your own psychological issues (your Twitter icon is a caricature of you in a strait jacket- no, seriously, it is).
Maybe you were just exhausted from “removing gum”. Or cataloguning all the things at which your child was not accomplished- sports, theatre, art. In a world where everyone’s given a prize for just showing up and the culture of entitlement it brings, you are an angry, bitter woman and deep down beat yourself up for not being a good parent. That is heavy but something much better dealt with in private in therapy than on a blog.
How dare you try to ruin someone’s glorious achievement because you feel you are entitled to being lauded for being….YOU? Your bizarre and ugly blogpost makes it abundantly clear that this is NOT about Audra- it’s about you, your child, your anger and shortcomings as a writer, parent and human being. You posted a YouTube video of you reading nasty things said about you online- Martyr much?
Knowing you’ve accomplished so little must be as bitter a pill to swallow as the pill you shove down your child’s throat daily- and according to most recent data, ADHD medication is not a cure- it’s just a way of delaying the inevitable problems- be they genetic and/or environmental.
Shame on you for everything.
http://time.com/2848405/sorry-audra-mcdonald-my-kid-needs-his-adhd-meds/
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