🪦 Deceased Gwen Hartley & The Hartley Hooligans - Attention Seeking Horrorshow Mom of Two Dead Gremlins & Finally Free Human Son

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Feline Darkmage said:
What if they did die already and we're just witnessing her try to cope by replacing them with realdolls like Peter Coffin's "girlfriend" was?
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I would honestly prefer that. :'(

Off-topic, but did we every figure out whether his "wife" was a fake or not? Was there ever a consensus? The whole thing was superbly confusing to me, even though I read through it like twice.
 
Oh God, this trainwreck of a family. About time this woman got her own thread, she's an absolutely textbook horrorcow and creeps me out far more than her poor, sad daughters every could.

I posted a few quotes from this woman's horrifying mommy blog in the general thread, but I figure this one at least bears repeating over here. It really is incredibly telling as regards this maniac woman's mindset and, perhaps, her motivations. This comes, if I recall correctly and I'm damn sure not going back to check, from a celebratory post for one of the girls' birthdays. After the usual glurge about how #blessed she is to be the mommy of such a #miraclebaby, she feels the need to add this:
The Hartley Harridan said:
I love that my girl took that "1 year maximum prognosis" and basically told those doctors to fuck off. Don't think for one second that my annual "Claire is STILL defying your stupid-ass odds" letter won't be sent to that dick doctor today.
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This woman is planning to sit down and write a literal fucking letter to her kid's first specialist on that child's birthday, the better to shit on him from a great height for daring to try and give her a realistic appraisal of her child's condition and chances. And she does this every single year. She's proud of it. It's a veritable family tradition. Possibly she does it twice, for her other little #warrior.

In short: it's all about her and what a marvellously devoted and loving mommy she is to her darling medical miracles who are totally Beating The Odds by surviving to drool and twitch in their malformed flesh-prisons for over a decade. What a fucking shock.
 
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Sailor_Jupiter said:
They disgust me too. I'm typically not too squicked out by deformities, but those two look like something out of a horror movie. In the pro-life comms, the general consensus with acephaly is to go ahead and give birth to hold them and gain some closure, then bury them after they drift away in the next few days/optimistically weeks. How the HECK have they survived so long?! They're basically miscarriages. I've never known people with this condition to live more than a month or two, even with round-the-clock care. It's baffling to me. I can't understand it. I can understand not aborting them- because it's safer to give birth, you get to hold them, there's more closure, there's a body to bury, organs can be donated- people sometimes don't abort for many reasons, nor just being pro-life... but, how have they survived for so long? People pick out tombstones rather than cribs for those kids.
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They're microcephalic, not anencephalic. But they're the worst kind of microcephalic, not the kind that can actually have a life (like Schlitzie from Freaks).
 
The "World's Smallest Mario" video turned my stomach. Not that it's terribly long or complicated, but it's the simplicity that makes it horrendous. This woman (and her husband, to be fair) 100% deserve to be categorized as horrorcows. jfc.
 
I feel so sad for these kids - all three. Especially as I've read stories from people who desperately wanted their child, but when they found out the unborn baby had such a debilitating illness, they knew the kindest thing was to set their soul free before they knew pain, whether that was termination or birth and hospice/palliative care until they passed. That kind of selflessness is truly admirable. Not this. Not forcing two human beings to live in pain they can't even understand and neglecting their son just to get "omg you're so brave and wonderful" points.

If someone had a pet that was profoundly disabled and suffering, and bragged online about how "most dogs with this disease only live a year but mine is beating the odds!" while in the background you see the poor animal unable to move, unable to eat, kept alive to be used as nothing more than a bagging right, people would call it cruelty. It's just fucked up that this woman can't give her daughters the kind of dignity most of us would give animals.
 
Rumpled Foreskin said:
The "World's Smallest Mario" video turned my stomach. Not that it's terribly long or complicated, but it's the simplicity that makes it horrendous. This woman (and her husband, to be fair) 100% deserve to be categorized as horrorcows. jfc.
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Right. First the letter from the healthy son, then that video turned me against them.

They had a horrible thing happen, which is not their fault really, even the second girl. Blogging about it doesn't even bother me-there are people with handicapped kids looking for others like them every day. Blogs can give a good glimpse into the trials and tribulations you may be about to face.

But costumes? Unicorns and Mario? Revenge letters to doctors? Pushing aside your healthy child and not acknowledging how hard his life is and instead focusing on a single word? They are off. No dignity, no class, no nothing. Like those girl's brains.
 
They were organic reborns from day one. At the very least reborn "mothers" treat their dolls with more maternal care than this woman does with any of her children, functional or not.
 
Lackadaisy said:
Genetics. Both parents carry whatever gene makes these... kids, and it was about a 25% chance to do so per pregnancy.
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So naturally after the first one was born and they knew they just shrugged and went, "Yeah let's not adopt or anything let's roll the dice again and risk bring a severely disabled person into the world who will live a life of confusion and pain.
 
purrings said:
So naturally after the first one was born and they knew they just shrugged and went, "Yeah let's not adopt or anything let's roll the dice again and risk bring a severely disabled person into the world who will live a life of confusion and pain.
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It went even further than that. The second pregnancy was heavily monitored, and doctors encouraged them to abort if microcephaly developed. Sure enough, it happened again, and as the story goes Gwen and Hubby were talking about what to do and leaning towards aborting when brave Cal spoke up and told them he wanted to "know" his sister and convinced them to give birth. This is a 100% true story that has no suspicious Christian overtones at all, and following the advice of your 8 year old about the fate of their severely deformed sibling is very good parenting.
 
Rumpled Foreskin said:
The "World's Smallest Mario" video turned my stomach. Not that it's terribly long or complicated, but it's the simplicity that makes it horrendous. This woman (and her husband, to be fair) 100% deserve to be categorized as horrorcows. jfc.
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Barbarella said:
Right. First the letter from the healthy son, then that video turned me against them.

They had a horrible thing happen, which is not their fault really, even the second girl. Blogging about it doesn't even bother me-there are people with handicapped kids looking for others like them every day. Blogs can give a good glimpse into the trials and tribulations you may be about to face.

But costumes? Unicorns and Mario? Revenge letters to doctors? Pushing aside your healthy child and not acknowledging how hard his life is and instead focusing on a single word? They are off. No dignity, no class, no nothing. Like those girl's brains.
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FYI, the "World's Smallest Mario" video is actually a troll edit, but it's not like the original is any better.
 
Disgruntled Pupper said:
It went even further than that. The second pregnancy was heavily monitored, and doctors encouraged them to abort if microcephaly developed. Sure enough, it happened again, and as the story goes Gwen and Hubby were talking about what to do and leaning towards aborting when brave Cal spoke up and told them he wanted to "know" his sister and convinced them to give birth. This is a 100% true story that has no suspicious Christian overtones at all, and following the advice of your 8 year old about the fate of their severely deformed sibling is very good parenting.
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So her #miracle #warrior #lifetimemovie was decided when she sought out an 8 year olds opinion on aborting his sibling? She discussed her options openly in front of a child? How...heartwarming.
 
I had so many people quoted and then I realized that it'd be easiest just to try and get my thoughts out in one post. This type of exploitation really pisses me off and I blame TLC for the glorification of martyrdom that this mother employs. I understand that, occasionally, nature deals the cruelest blows and kids are born with physical and mental challenges. When a parent accepts that and does everything in their power to make some fucking lemonade, I'll probably buy a glass at their roadside stand. There's a caveat, however. Exposing children's lives, before they're old enough to give consent, is a pet peeve of mine. We have a generation of children who have now had everything chronicled online for the benefit of their parents' wallets and the eyes of complete strangers. A child with conditions like these girls have has even less control over their situation. This sort of mommy blogging, daily reports on the kids and staple gunning angel wings to her fucking back, is exploitation. She's not using it as a support group. If she needed the support of other parents dealing with similar issues, there are groups like that. She's not raising awareness - she's capitalizing on their misery. No one is going to make gigantic medical strides in diagnosing or treating this anomaly. Blogging isn't making their lives easier. I suspect it's making it more difficult because these kids are props in a stage play and mom spends most of her time making sure their camera ready and fitting in to her self-aggrandizing narrative. The poor "healthy" child, who has to have his sisters propped up in every one of his milestones, is just bad fucking parenting. She can't see her normy son as a person unto himself. He might be helpful and I'm sure he loves his sisters, but he wasn't born to be their champion and he certainly deserves to enjoy his childhood without being reminded that his sisters won't have the same chances. I'd bet good money that anytime this boy wants to do something extravagant, he gets guilt tripped out of it because his sisters can't participate. She can't even let him have his prom pictures without his siblings? Come on! My kids went to prom and I never insisted my other kids get in the picture. It's their day. Since he's a boy, I suspect he hasn't had it impact him as much as it might've impacted a normy sister. But, mark my words, on his wedding day, his fiancee will be forced with sharing the limelight while these two are towed up to the front of the church in a wagon just before she makes her entrance on, what should be, her day. The other question I have is, "how long will she milk this?" If she thought her daughters were individuals with personalities, then she'd stop making them dress in toddler clothing and give them the dignity and privacy that most teenagers crave. You wouldn't film your healthy 14 year old daughter getting a nappy changed or show her in such an intimate way. But, it's okay because they're microcephalic? It's okay to debase them by exposing their trials as a way to make mommy look like a saint? Fuck that.
 
Rumpled Foreskin said:
With the cackling in the background, that's quite possibly even worse. Also, the title is just as bad.
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Definitely no improvement. It's completely dehumanizing that child.

And, it begs the question-how human are these girls? Without our brains, we really are just bags of flesh. Clearly, their brain stems are functioning, but do they have any higher level functioning at all? Are these girls really one of the brain-dead, like Jahi McMath and a few others like her?

If these parents believe these kids are humans, with individual desires, then they should be treated as a human and a normal human desire for privacy should be respected.

I suppose if they really aren't human-meaning they have no brains, no thought, no ability to process the world in a human way, then it doesn't hurt these girls to be part of a carnival side show. But that doesn't seem to be the message mom is screaming.

You really can't have it both ways. Dressing them up as unicorns and angels and flying them around the room while everybody cracks up , that says they are not human. Going on talk shows with them and begging people not to say the R word because it diminishes them in some way says they are-it's a mixed message.

This is why these parents are so repulsive. If these girls are humans, then it is the parents who have taken their human dignity away. If they are not, sure, dress them as bananas and use as many metaphors for poop as you want when describing your 15 year olds diaper leak, just don't go crying on national TV and asking me to give them more dignity than you do.
 
varvarstvo said:
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Yeah, they have a degenerative condition. What little brains they have will further deteriorate.

If you compare with older pictures, it's also obvious that their contractures are getting more severe, with their limbs becoming increasingly twisted and gnarled.
The mother has posted about Claire becoming unable to grasp objects like it's no big deal. Obviously their contractures are going to cause them pain, but apparently the mother objects to giving them painkillers.

Oh, and the blindness thing is cortical visual impairment. Their eyes work, but their brains are too damaged to actually allow them to process what they see.
Their bulging eyes are due to the fact that their cranium (and therefore orbits) is too small and deformed to accomodate their eyeballs.

And instead of allowing them to live out their brief existence in comfort and dignity, the parents broadcast their protracted suffering and publish pictures of them in silly costumes or covered in their own fæces.


There is absolutely no reason any living creature should be made to live an existence like this. This woman should've aborted.
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I've seen a lot on KF, but this is truly some Stephen King type shit. Does this woman have some sort of narcissistic personality disorder?
 
The Jumping Dwarf said:
FYI, the "World's Smallest Mario" video is actually a troll edit, but it's not like the original is any better.
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Rumpled Foreskin said:
With the cackling in the background, that's quite possibly even worse. Also, the title is just as bad.
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I used to do stuff like that to my cat when I was younger, but when I grew up I felt bad about teasing her (even though she actually seemed to enjoy dancing around for the lulz) and quit it to avoid hurting her dignity. I'm just going to mention that here without comment...
 
I had read a bit of her blog first, actually didn't find it all that terrible at the time. She impressed personalities and feelings on the sisters. Emotions and ambitions. A sassy teen and a picky pre-teen. Then.. I saw the video of them propped half nude on a couch. The "normal" girls staring off in four directions. Passing gas and chomping at nothing. That's when I'm like "Fuck you Gwen".
@Barbarella is exactly right, she can't have it both ways. She can't expect to be treated with dignity if she literally uses those kids as props and goes into explicit detail about their bodily functions. She has actually done much to de-humanize them.
 
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