I got an anon asking me if I (the new mod) agreed with what everyone has been saying in the sense of “Alex” doing this all for attention. I’m not answering the anon directly since I’m on mobile and posting all three messages would clog the blog up so I thought it would be good to just make a PSA about this so let me say a few things.
I do not excuse “Alex” for what they did just because they had bpd and other mental illnesses. Mental illness does not excuse a person for their toxic, shitty, abusive, and manipulative behavior. Using that mental illness to garner sympathy is a form of manipulation and attention-seeking.
“Alex” did this all for attention and I know you think me saying that is “ableist” but there’s no other reason why they did it. Their mental illness didn’t make them do all of this; it may have fuelled the fire but it wasn’t the thing that ultimately made their decision to:
Manipulate others into getting sympathy and attention.
Pretend to be someone else completely on their own blog moments after their “death”.
Attack others with general malicious speech once they were found out.
It’s not good to excuse someone’s abusive and manipulative behaviors based on the fact that they have mental illness. Doing so empowers their abuse. I myself (the new mod) have lots of mental illnesses (not just AsPD) and I’d never use my mental illness as an excuse to do anything “Alex” has done.
And before anyone says anything about me being “ableist”: I’ve been abused before by someone who claimed their bipolar, PTSD, and depression made them how they were. They beat me up on a daily basis and abused me. Their mental illness didn’t make them abuse me; they abused me because they felt like abusing me. Thus, a prime example of how you can’t excuse someone based on their mental illness(es).
Those are my two cents on it. Call me ableist all you want for not putting up with someone’s manipulative and toxic behavior or excusing them based on a few mental illnesses.