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TheDragonFan Head Lackey (Series 2)
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Jan 29th 2022 at 5:58:07 PM •••

Need to vent. Dana makes me so angry.

About Dana's blog in chapter 9: It's so ironic that Dana thinks that Mary will grow up to be a fundamentally violent person and wants to forcibly sterilize her when Dana's the violent one (drawing blood when her 9-year-old daughter wants to read something fun instead of a baby book) and the incompetent mother (pretty much everything, up to and including wondering why Todd and Reagan miss a lost child who's only been missing for a couple days.

In fact, Dana's dissmissing of her daughter's humanity makes her such an effective hate-sink, especially for neurodivergent people. Look at that bitch. (Sorry, female dogs.) Mary isn't a casually violent, deluded, disposable, unintelligent empty shell in arrested development. In Chapter 7, she's shocked that Edith would accept Lianna's autism instead of trying to control her, seeing accepting it as giving up a normal life. It's a long rant, but basically she says that not trying to make an autistic child as NT as possible is spoiling them.

And why did Dana become like that? She was misled by a quack. Dr. Goldman's diagnosis of "She's an absolute dumbass"? That comes from putting a nonverbal child in a deliberately stressing situation. Of course she was going to freak out. He openly encourages parents to harshly punish their child for "any deviation from the norm".

And yet another thing: How Dana assumes that that Mary is an empty shell. Imagine if your parent thought that you didn't have the mental capacity to understand violence. That you should be forced to conform at all costs. That raising you is a "battle". That you are mentally an infant. That they are your victim. Dana is becoming her mother, punishing her daughter for her self-expression. If she'd never met Dr. Goldman, would she be a better mother? Could she be redeemed? Or will karma bite her in the ass?

Of course I'm an expert- I'm Larry Mullen Jr.'s son's bandmate's father's ex-coworker's daughter.
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