The kids never show up because howard’s Mom was a character who only ever was heard shouting from offscreen, so they are continuing that joke

I'm not accusing her of being manipulative; I'm accusing the author of not doing her due diligence.

I'm not commenting on the abuse debate, but just out of curiosity, did you read the book? Because all of the quotes being discussed in the media over the last few days are cherry picked from a longer autobiography (which I didn't read but Jia did). Unless everyone in the comment section read the book, it's pretty…