Why does she even post these pictures?
can't she see what we see in them, im stunned
EDIT: I'm not saying that to be mean, but isn't she self conscious as other regular human beings?
No.
Julie's self awareness and what's often called "theory of mind" are minimal. It's a common trait of autistic disorders and personality disorders. On top of that is the OCD she's been diagnosed, and the bipolar that she should be diagnosed. Have you ever been so stressed and exhausted that your brain just shuts down? You end up not making any sense, you can't think at all, the world turns swirly and disjointed, and when you finally collapse and go to sleep, you wake up to a bunch of weird shit that you didn't finish, shit you started halfway through, shit that makes no fucking sense, and fucked if you know how the banana skin ended up floating in the loo.
All this, and you were completely sober.
Julie doesn't think. She reacts. Her actions and reasoning are disjointed and often just don't do together. Have you ever thought, "I'd really love to post a photograph of my penis/vagina/rectum on Facebook, just to see how many people flip their shit"? Admit it, you have. Everyone has. But then logic, common sense, and rationality takes over, a basic A will lead to B and A + B = raging humiliation and possibly serious consequences, and you file the idea under the drunk "To Do" list and move on. Julie's pretty much incapable of ABC thinking. She does whatever seems like a good idea at the time. And when the consequences of her actions filter through and she flips her shit because her lack of ABC pretty much leaves her incapable of grasping the fact that other people don't think the way she does, and she's confused and often frightened so she screams and runs, and the mental illness kicks in and any last shred of hope that she'll finally grasp the idea of self awareness goes flying out the window. On top of that, her learning difficulties have obviously never been assessed and she sure as hell has no concept of how to take care of herself.
Julie needs medication, she needs therapy, and she needs to be taken out of the shed and into a day facility where her learning difficulties are properly assessed and she can be taught as much ABC as she's ultimately capable of doing.
Until then, she's going to do whatever crosses her mind as soon as it gets there, she's going to attract predators who will quickly figure out how depressingly easy it is for them to manipulate her into doing everything they want her too, and her family's going to eventually throw her out because they can't take the batshit insanity and creepy ephebophilies lurking around.
Honestly, Julie needs some serious fucking help. Medical help. Her nan is being lauded as a saint but from what I'm reading, her way and the rest of the family's way to deal with Julie is to just throw her into the shed and hope she'll magically stop being autistic and mentally ill. Which she will be sooner than later, because she's going be drugged and murdered as soon as she leaves the shed and enters the ranks of disposable homeless.
