Jack Monroe flounced from Twitter - Again

[AnonWeeMouse]

This time it looks like she was caught out in regard to addiction faking.

She posted a photo claiming they were of her recovery chip thingies and it was noted that 1 of them was for Cocaine Anonymous and another was for Narcotics anonymous.

She'd denied cocaine use earlier.

Early January she was in the Guardian saying she'd blown to s of donated money on Drink, tramadol and Cotswolds sideboards.
Seems the oddities of her stories are catching up with her.

Curious case of honest mistakes of someone who does good?
Or a devious chancer that's raking in as much as 30k a month of other people's money for doing nothing?

Yes this. She may or may not be a tosspot (albeit one who has done some useful stuff), but she is mentally unwell for sure.

That sounds exactly like ADHD. Starting things but unable to complete them

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Not quite.

The shame of not fulfilling even one month would be enough to make most with ADHD shut it down. Not crack on taking thousands/tens of thousands for months/years on end, whilst viciously attacking anyone who asks for a refund, blocking them etc.

She talks like she’s read the basics of ADHD/Autism, mined stories from other actually ND people and then slapped some Narc spin on them.

Exactly. As I said above, I have a close family member with ADHD. She’d be absolutely beside herself with shame and guilt if she took people’s money and didn’t deliver promised goods. She wouldn’t just casually say ‘sorry, it’s just my ADHD’, while continuing to not deliver (and continuing to take the money).

Remember at any point Jack could have said ‘I’m sorry, I can’t deliver the rewards, I will pause my Patreon and refund anyone who has paid for goods so far’. Instead she carried on taking the money, ignored anyone asking where their goods were and blocked anyone asking for a refund. All while moaning on Twitter about the ‘meagre’ income she gets from it that ‘doesn’t even cover my household bills’.

I don't think MN is obsessed with her. Every now and again some posters start a Tattle-like thread on a woman in the public eye. For a while it was one of those cleaning influencers. Just now it's Jack Monroe.
I'm sure it's completely unconnected with lots of Tories going after her for criticising them. And that it's also a complete coincidence that the posters who are so incensed about JM have never, not once, started a thread criticising any man in the public eye.
It takes a special kind of 'focus' to look at all the people in the media and think the one you're going to attack is JM - not Rishi for the Moderna hedge fund or Michelle Mone for the PPE or Johnson for the Russian funders - nah, go after the one who tries to do some campaigning around food poverty. That will prove your moral compass

Dunno… I have ADHD and do feel shame about things I’ve not finished etc

Have things on my ‘to do’ list that I’ve not addressed in years. The thought of them makes my chest feel tight.

When they cross my mind I pack them away again. They resurface again. I pack them away.

Start some other task that isn’t really a priority. Manage to finish that for some reason.

The most important things on my to do list I’m aware of but start a new project. And so on and so on. It’s an endless cycle and it’s torture.

Cancel that direct debit? I know I should. Get my gutters fixed? I know it’s important as it’s causing water damage.

I still have money in my bank account so won’t cancel the direct debit. My walls are still visibly ok, so I won’t get the gutters fixed.

The reality is- until I’ve fucked up spectacularly, or totally in the shit I won’t take action on things like this. I know I need to but can never manage it.

I really don’t know that much about Jack Munro other than the store cupboard food recipes

What has been said here about her behaviour really does sound like elements of ADHD to me.

Perhaps her persona could be mined from others as you say, but it sounds like lived experience to me.

This Guardian article was her attempt to rehabilitate her image after the blogs exposing her came out.

When she went into rehab, she says, she didn’t admit the extent of her problem. “I wasn’t honest about what I was drinking and taking because, again, I thought somebody might take my son into care if I said I drank a bottle and a half of whisky a day and took 40 tramadol.” How many? “Forty, at the end.” In a day? “Yes, how I’m not dead is beyond me.” Was it an attempted overdose? No, she says, not in the conventional sense. “I took eight, then another eight, then another … I remember counting them the day before – 40, that was five days’ worth. I didn’t care if I died. I crashed out, fell over in the bathroom, gave myself a fractured eye socket, a broken nose. I suspected I might not wake up again.”

This drinking and drug taking took place when she was regularly begging the public for money as well as taking her patreon money without fulfilling the rewards.

More importantly, it claims she was drinking 1 1/2 bottles of whisky a day and taking vast quantities of tramadol while being a single parent, part of that time would have been during lockdown where her child would not even have been able to go to school to get away from her.

Yawn grow up dear

I think the reason people are focused on her probably depends on the individual.

For me, it's because I grew up poor and I hate pov chic and people pretending to be so hard up that they have to boil down bars of soap. That is so disrespectful of those at the bottom of the ladder, especially if she knowingly took money from people on carers benefits and the like.

It's also because I had a very damaging friendship with someone who it turned out, had one of the nastier cluster b personality disorders. I'm ghoulishly drawn to her because she is so strikingly similar to my ex friend. I know I should look away but it's like watching history repeat itself.

Mumsnet hate her. I think she has genuine medical needs

She may well @Mydogatemypurse but she's been happy to take vast amounts of money from people based on stories that at best have a tenuous relationship with the truth.

MN delete these threads. It's not MN that hates her.
There are a dedicated group of people that 'hate' her and hound her on Twitter and Tattle. There actually isn't that many of them. They just post a lot ... almost like bots.

They used to delete threads like this, but they've been letting them stand. People will just go elsewhere if discussion is shut down here.

I believe he's with his father

I’m autistic and have ADHD and I completely agree with you @StrawberryAnnie. I recognise all of the behaviours you describe and was nodding along to your post.

I have a successful career, two lovely DC, a mortgage - and outwardly I’m a fully competent, functioning adult.

But at the age of 47 it’s still utterly excruciating that I can’t seem to manage the most basic things, like sorting out a direct debit or paying a parking fine on time. I fuck them up again and again. And I can’t even tell you why.

Im not convinced that Jack has ADHD and/or autism. Our neurodiversity doesn’t make us manipulative, or deceitful.

Jack MIGHT have ADHD but the point is that you can have ADHD and just be a shitty person, for reasons unrelated to your diagnosis. And I do think Jack is a very shitty person.

That list of medication is so basic for your average anxiety and depression.

Nothing remotely says any diagnosis beyond that.

I have adhd and one of my problematic traits is that i can rush to help others and prioritise them over something important i need to do, i will always prioritise other peoples needs over my own. The phrase my doctor always uses is 'u do it for them , not for you'. ADHD is a dopamine defacit and you get dopamine helping others. To leave people without something you promised to do would be torture for me with ADHD.

I would do this though it is very ADHD.

She has fucked up spectacularly and is totally in the shit. People are taking her to court for moneys owed. Her response is to block them, call them trolls, and send her ‘flying monkeys’ (her name for them) to pile on to them on Twitter until they usually end up deleting their accounts.

There are also a lot of Jack supporters who accuse anyone of criticising her as being ‘right wing trolls’. Couldn’t be further from the truth in my case, I’ve never voted Tory in my life, never intend to start, am a member of the Labour Party in fact. I’m not sure why having a problem with people scamming money off people poorer then them is a right wing trait, or why many left wing people are happy for Jack to do this, but there we go.

She's a very odd character. I used to be a fan, thankfully never donated any money but always took an interest and supported her noble work. It feels like a slap in the face that she has been exposed as such a liar. For a while I gave her the benefit of the doubt and thought maybe it was just innocent mistakes as a result of her not being very organised but the more that comes out the more it seems intentional.

Not only that but the way she and her followers attack anyone who challenges her is awful. She cries bullying but she is the worst of the bullies. Alluding to suicide and saying she's being harassed every time she's asked to explain something is not cool either.

She's so strange because behind the keyboard she's bolshy and sure of herself yet on screen she's this meek mild little thing who looks terrified most of the time. I definitely think she has a lot of issues and needs to stay off social media and get her affairs in order rather than constantly participating in the drama cycle, it's become a farce.

I saw this. She just passed it off as having not got around to it. If you were genuinely short of money there is no way on earth you wouldn't spend a few minutes signing up to this and saving a fortune in the process. She's a fake

You absolutely would if you had ADHD.

Has she formally been diagnosed with ADHD? The autism is certainly self-diagnosed.

Her life is quite clearly a total car crash and she needs help. she could start off by admitting that she's most definitely not so poor that she is boiling soap to make shower gel or swapping out her lightbulbs for solar ones.