Here in year three of legal purgatory, new evidence keeps coming in and turning up and it proves what I've been saying is true. I'll be posting more whenever I have time.
This first one is pretty simple.
Mandy has repeatedly claimed she has never been given a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder.
Those exact words.
A pretty simple claim and not too hard to check:
Here's a letter from one of the many mental health professionals Mandy has seen over the years, you can click to enlarge it or just read the excerpt below:
The doctor says Mandy was diagnosed and was treated for Borderline Personality Disorder (aka BPD) for "more than a year".
And how did Mandy describe her own mental health and diagnosis back in the day, before she decided to make up all these accusations? Here's every page of a handwritten journal entry from her sketchbook:
And what did the people who knew her best think? Here's Mandy's closest confidant, her sister, in text messages with me from April 19, 2019--happily texting me two months after Mandy made her accusations online--click to enlarge:
Was she misdiagnosed? Maybe, I'm not a doctor, I didn't even know what BPD was until she told me she had it--when we met. The point is:
- Mandy had severe mental health problems since long before she met me.
- Her close friends and family all knew this.
- Mandy doesn't tell the truth. Even under oath.
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"Legal purgatory" indeed. The truth-seeking function of our justice system can be a slow, grinding process, is more art than science, is human and imperfect. The glimmers of truth that you are sharing are simultaneously heartening and a painful window into the human condition.
ReplyDeleteI have looked through the many accusations against you in detail. Ultimately, like many I am a bystander and am by definition poorly informed. But what I found most persuasive are the statements by women close to you made in the wake of Mandy's accusations, those who spoke in your defense. In part because of your experience and writings, I have reconsidered my views and am speaking out (with friends, I am not a particularly online person) concerning the assumptions about identity and virtue that are driving too many hasty judgments against people of good will-- even if they may have a "difficult" character. (I include you among that group.)
Your will to persevere and see this process through is impressive. I wonder about the seeming contradictions of your situation: I understand you to embrace anarchy political theory in at least some ways, yet you have had to resort to the legal system against a stifling tide of online caprice and sanctimony.
I wish you the best and look forward to your artistic work and observations.
Wow, that seems like a legal mic drop! :-o
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