You're conflating suggestions that LL was abused and the fact she displayed no signs commonly seen in nursing serial killers. They're not the same thing.
No I'm not. At all. I very explicitly said "I'm not suggesting Letby was abused." I DO NOT think she was abused. I'm just saying you're taking absence of proof that something exists as proof that it does not exist. That's a logical fallacy. We know almost nothing about her upbringing, family life or mental health history one way or the other.
She obviously did display multiple signs commonly seen in nursing serial killers. From your own list:
Excessive deaths on shift.
Inability to form intimate relationships.
History of complaints from colleagues.
History of making colleagues feel uncomfortable.
You said you have a history of severe mental illness that even if not diagnosed till your 30s, do you think someone that knew you well could at least say something about it?
Definitely not, the only people who would have been in a position to do that would have been my parents, who both very successfully managed to hide mental illnesses and a chaotic abusive home from the world.
There were no signs of your awful childhood that were ever observed by anyone else till you became psychotic in your 30s?
No, absolutely none.
No objective evidence in your life?
Nope, none at all.
No problems forming or maintaining relationships?
I've never had a proper romantic relationship but neither has Letby, what's your point?
Not one family member, friend, colleague or boyfriend in your first 30 years of life who wouldn't say "she seemed completely normal". Not one?
Nope, not a single person, except my parents, who obviously covered up the abuse and subsequent behaviour, just like how Letby's parents tried to cover up for her. I've never had a boyfriend, just like Letby has never had a boyfriend.
no drug or alcohol abuse?
No, never touched alcohol or drugs.
No self-harm or eating disorder?
Yes, both, but no one except me and people I've told knows about that, there's definitely no "written record" or "evidence" of either of those things. I never self-harmed anywhere visible, I don't have any scars, and was never visibly skinny. Never saw a doctor or told anyone until many years later. No one else ever suspected. There's no way anyone but me could possibly know, unless I chose to tell them.
Never anxious or depressed?
Every person on earth has been anxious at some point, that's just human nature. Obviously I've struggled terribly with depression for years, but I never sought help until recently, so I'm the only person in the world who knows that. (Again, other than people I've told, which was not till many years later.) There isn't a single other person alive who knows and definitely no medical evidence and nothing written down until recently.
You keep claiming Letby must have this perfectly happy mentally completely normal history just because a) she's never sought out formal psychiatric help and b) because loved ones aren't coming forward to say she was mentally troubled. But psychopaths avoid doctors because they don't think there's anything wrong with her, her parents clearly think the sun shines out of her arse, and she's never had a boyfriend. So who exactly is supposed to be coming forward?? Plenty of colleagues had concerns or problems with her.
You can't claim that something doesn't exist just because there's nothing written down, when you're talking about something very private that a lot of people keep secret because of stigma and family pressure.
In that case you also are unusual.
No, I'm not. Almost all my close friends have privately admitted to me that they secretly struggle with depression, or that they once had an eating disorder or self-harm phase that not a soul knows about. The only reason people tell me is because I'm very very open about this and do a lot of work as a campaigner for mental illness awareness.
There's a huge issue of mental instability and abuse in middle class homes going ignored and kept secret.
My oldest friend is a doctor (research, not medical) and fairly successful, privately educated, Oxbridge, very wealthy upper middle class family. For years she's been convinced she has OCD and autism but won't seek diagnosis because her parents wouldn't cope with that. During Covid she developed this belief that the authorities are watching everything she does and reading and listening to all her texts, emails, phone calls, and everything she types into her laptop. She's functional, and no one except me as any idea that she's basically in a permanent state of some kind of psychosis. She's walked around every day for the past three years in a state of extreme fear because "They" won't stop watching her every movement, her colleagues and other friends have noticed that she's on edge but they just think she's really stressed from work.
I also started a thread here on MN (under a name change) about a different friend who I believe has undiagnosed schizophrenia but because she's very wealthy and an artist people just think she's glamorous and eccentric. She's never seen a mental health professional, never been arrested, never had social services involvement. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who's worried about her.
Both my friends are lovely and would never hurt anyone, but if either of them ever did snap I'm 100000% sure the media and people online would make a huge deal of it being so shocking that these lovely middle class white girls from lovely supportive families with no history of mental illness could possibly do this.