I think one of the saddest parts of this chick is that her Tumblr following seems to CONDONE her anorexia. I mean, I don't see good people telling depressed people that their depression is good, and they should embrace it. I don't see good people telling people with schizophrenia to embrace the voices they hear and the hallucinations they see. I don't get how these shitgoblins can see anorexia, a legitimate illness, as something to embrace and be proud of.
Oh, right, I forgot. Tumblr. Every illness is seen as a way to one-up others.
I think one of the saddest parts of this chick is that her Tumblr following seems to CONDONE her anorexia. I mean, I don't see good people telling depressed people that their depression is good, and they should embrace it. I don't see good people telling people with schizophrenia to embrace the voices they hear and the hallucinations they see. I don't get how these shitgoblins can see anorexia, a legitimate illness, as something to embrace and be proud of.
Oh, right, I forgot. Tumblr. Every illness is seen as a way to one-up others.
I've been following all the dramu on pt for months now, and her following seems to only enable her. I only skimmed through the thread on here, so I'm not sure if it's already been mentioned, but her amazon wishlist used to have gift cards to places like whole foods and cheesecake factory with her explanation being that she "was too poor but wanted to recover" or something along the lines of that. In reality, the people that fell for it really only gave her access to binge food. It's like giving an alcoholic booze. She's made it clear that she hopes to die from ana, and anyone that believes she is trying to recover is blind.
I'm pretty sure anons on the old pt thread tried contacting social workers or something like that, but I don't know if there was ever an investigation on her case.
She goes out in public enough for me to wonder how no one in her area has gotten her help. You would think with it being obvious how severely ill she is that she could be put away involuntarily.
She goes out in public enough for me to wonder how no one in her area has gotten her help. You would think with it being obvious how severely ill she is that she could be put away involuntarily.
According to someone on fatlogic she lives with her mother who also has an eating disorder and I quote: who competes with her on skinniness and tells her things like "weight is the only thing that matters."
I'm more horrified than amused by her, but her atrocious behavior toward fellow sufferers entitles her to a thread. I wouldn't blame anyone who didn't want to read it, though.
Okay, I've now slept, let me try and write up a better introduction to Ashley Isaacs.
I only started following her within the last year, but I'll try and give as much info on Ashley, as well as some general info on the Tumblr/IG anorexia scene (I don't normally come to ballpit is there a thread for that?).
Ashley Isaacs, AKA Hamtaro-chan/Ghostinmypocket is a 24 year old woman (I know you were all wondering) who is severely anorexic and totally fine with it*. She has been suffering with anorexia since 2005, although at the age of 14 she was nowhere near as serious (she's even kinda called herself an ex wannarexic?).
I'm not great at armchair psychology, but I can repeat speculation I've heard from the other farms. Apparently if you go through Ashley's posts on tumblr, they reek of manipulative bullshit; she manipulates people into sending her things off her wishlist she "desperately" needs (having trouble finding screenshots, but examples are "my laptop's too bad to run WOW now, I need a new one ; I really wish there was something to eat in the house; my mum wont let me buy *item*; etc.") by making everyone around her feel sorry for her because of out-of-context posts like this. She also does the whole "waah nobody likes me" fishing for compliments thing, which is a personal pet peeve.
People who see through her manipulative veil are usually met with unnecessary aggression. It's a mixture of anonfaggotry aggression and THIS IS ME, IF YOU DONT LIKE IT LEAVE.
If that was the end of her problems, I don't think she'd be lolcow territory, just a hangry anorexic. HOWEVER, she lurks the anorexia scene, waiting for the right time to become some poor girls Skeletal Godmother - she's often spotted in the comments section of other "recovery" anorexics** IG photos, feigning "support" but it's obvious that's not the goal (if a girl gets better, Ashley starts to cut off contact). She's shared purging tips on their photos, and is always there to white knight them from the odd person who says "I know you're in recovery, but you're not gaining weight. Are you sure you're okay?"
I've tried to compile a timeline of her decline, but I'm not 100% sure on it.
Meet Ashley, aged 14-15(?) This looks pre-ED, from her days of doing underage camwhoring(?).
Those photos are from like 14-16, the last being in 2007. In 2007, shit hit the fan, her mother found out about the camwhoring; Ashley tried to kill herself, resulting in her being hospitalised. Whilst she was there she gained a bit of weight too.
(maybe after hospitalisation? I don't know when this was taken)
this week
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I've really bummed myself out looking for these screenshots .
Ashley's attitude to her illness is perplexing. She is very aware that it will kill her, and she seems to embrace this, sometimes in an edgelord way. It's super fucking sad finding her teenage blog posts about this shit, she saw (maybe still sees?) it all as some stupid competition. When people have shown concern in the past, the reply has usually been "you don't know my situation", which has lead to some weird speculation that Ashley is terminally anorexic and is unable to recover due to the damage on her body, but this is unsourced and doesn't sound medically true.
They're kinda like the opposite of wannarexics. Their internet profiles are supposed to show them gaining weight and beginning to eat normally, but these girls in "recovery" aren't getting better at all; they're maintaining or even still losing weight from their unhealthy frame. They say they are recovering purely for asspats, "you're so inspirational for fighting this disease", and get pretty cagey when people say they're not looking any better.
The things some of these girls do to just make it APPEAR they're eating is insane. Food ripping, photos of food with no bites taken out of then thrown away, smearing ice cream on they lips for a photoshoot then spending hours making sure they don't "absorb" all the calories from it it's all very interesting in a morbid way.[/spoliler]
I'll write up something about her dramas at some point, there's a basic bio.
Erika is another anorexic girl with an IG following, who was friends with Ashley (possible sexual ties?). Ashley fell head over in heels in love with Erika and when their friendship broke down, Ashley rang her to hurl abuse. There is some other stuff between them, but everyone is vague with details for Erika's sake.
There are several other girls, such as somebody on the other farms namefagging as Twatwaffle, who have come out and said similar things. Twatwaffle said that she was a close friend of Ashley for years online, and regularly posts big posts like this:
I finally managed to find a screenshot of the stuff she usually pulls:
Vanilla is an easy flavour to purge (throw up).
The giveaway gift baskets of junk food may seem innocent, but I've been informed that recovering anorexics are encouraged to keep away from foods that will tempt them into purging. Almond Butter is often requested by anorexics as a binge food as its smooth and doesn't hurt coming back up. She gives away obvious binge food, here's a couple of photos of them.
Sorry I'm not doing too well finding incriminating screenshots the Ashley threads are a bit of a clusterfuck on /pt/ as they include other anorexics.
That alone makes Ashley a shuddercow/horrorcow rather than a lolcow. Enabling and encouraging that toxic, harmful behavior puts the bitch in shuddercow/horrorcow territory.
I'm more horrified than amused by her, but her atrocious behavior toward fellow sufferers entitles her to a thread. I wouldn't blame anyone who didn't want to read it, though.
Holy shit. She almost looks like a holocaust victim. That's scary as fuck.
Even with her mom enabling her you would think the rest of the family would band together and do something.
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it's all very interesting in a morbid way.[/spoliler]
the Ashley threads are a bit of a clusterfuck on /pt/ as they include other anorexics.
