She’s a child. It doesn’t take an MD to look at her photos since she was adopted and see how she has matured and grown. The only people who are claiming she’s an adult are either really thirsty or facing prison time.

FWIW, both kids are now teenagers and I still sometimes sternly say a random “ONE”. It almost always works, lol.

She’s not hiding.  There are pictures of her all over facebook.  Looking like a teenager, which makes sense... as she’s a teenager and these parents are abusive nutjobs.

I went down an easily findable facebook rabbit hole, and there are recent pictures of this child that look very much like a teenager and show that she’s grown significantly.

These folks can rot. The media that ran with this story and shared the name and pictures of an alleged child abuse victim are disgusting.

That scene felt like a gas chamber scene. Based on the books and the show up until now, I assumed they sent them to the colonies (unless they were connected to some elite person or hidden in an econo-family). But I suppose it’s more likely that they murder them if their disability is severe enough to warrant needing…

I just finished the finale and I’m a puddle. I am sure it will be dissected and some people will hate it, but right now I think it was more or less a perfect ending to the season.

Yes, I think the actress, writers, and director did a phenomenal job with her character. Most of the time, mental illness is portrayed extremely stereotypically, and I appreciate that wasn’t the route they went.

As a person who works with people with serious mental illness, I found the portrayal to be very realistic to what I have seen. They appear to have been going for a bipolar w/ psychotic features or schizoaffective disorder route. I don’t think her behavior was so much purely agoraphobic as it was a reluctance to go out…

She appears to have bipolar with psychotic features. When crudely medicated with whatever they were able to give her, she was a recluse. When manic, she could have done anything.  

Don’t go to a private school? Pell will barely take a dent out of the cost of your average private university.

I’m an adult college student in Illinois attending a state school. Full Pell Grant and Map Grant plus the full loan won’t cover U of I’s tuition plus room and board.

If upper-middle-class kids are worried about the cost of college, they should go to one of our many outstanding community colleges (this is not sarcasm…

I work at a residential facility that treats girls who have eating disorders and have experienced trauma, often co-occurring. I have had a lot of girls who are clinically extremely similar to this girl. Our system in the US is fucked, I have seen insurance pull on a child whose family failed treatment at home multiple…

I never shopped there (there weren’t any close to me) but I’m still mourning the loss of Fashion Bug, for many of the same reasons.

I use to be a DSP. I was working 60 hrs/week, often taking care of up to 8 people with profound developmental and behavioral challenges, while taking 15 credit hours. FUN TIMES.

Now I am working 30 hours/week with adults and adolescents with mental illnesses and eating disorders, doing a 14 hour/week sexual…

NO RED FLAGS HERE. MOVE ALONG.

I would watch the heck out of a sitcom about Abishola.  Bob?  Meh.

Hey, I’d love this. Like seriously, LOVE THIS.

But you know what I’d like more? I’d like free (or extremely low cost, like $10-$20 a credit hour) community and state college tuition. I’d like Pell grants to be used to cover room & board costs at state schools, not tuition. I am OK with sucking it up and DEALING with my…

Oh yes, psychiatry has a HORRIBLE history of using commitment as a means to unjustly imprison people. And I’m not saying it doesn’t still happen, it’s just uncommon.

Involuntary treatment isn’t a bad thing. If it weren’t for involuntary (or otherwise less-than-voluntary) treatments a lot of people would die or otherwise be at extreme risk. During exacerbations of severe mental illnesses (which it appears Britney is diagnosed with) the ability to make decisions can be compromised.…

When custody cases make it to court (as in the judge gets to decide), it’s about 50:50 which party gets primary custody. Men aren’t disadvantaged in the least in these cases. Most child custody arrangements are agreed on privately on OUTSIDE of court, and in those cases, women predominately have custody.