HippoFriend wrote:I rewatched some older videos and we are pretty used to her strangeness now but I sometimes forget how off she really is. I don't even mean to make fun of her by writing this but like every single concept about the world, herself, mental illnesses she gets so absolutely wrong. And I do think she fell through the system when she was young, because she is basically antisocial. She has so many messed up behaviours and coping strategies that it's a wonder that she functioning at all. And I really think getting attention on youtube in such a young age messed with her even more. She never had to deal with real people because she got the internet. She has no idea how relationships of any kind work. You can see that she got 'more normal' during uni. Of course she suffered during that because her coping strategies for stressful and new situation are really bad, but if she stayed in a 'real world situation' with responsibilites etc she could have turned out fine. Instead she is hiding in her online world. That's why she's making so many boring videos about the most mudane things - her world is really really small.
I think you're absolutely right. She never seemed to have a lot of friends or join in on social activities while growing up, like an after school club or sports. It seems as if she's never been a part of a team or a group, where she would build her social skills and relationships. If the majority of her social interactions growing up was online, she would have never really learned how to act in an actual physical social setting with eye contact, body language and tone of voice (<---
I'm Danish, don't know the English word for it) and all of her knowledge of romantic relationships comes from movies, how many times has she mentioned that "Ever After" was her favorite movie??
She doesn't seem to understand that relationships and getting to know/be intimate with a partner can be complicated and requires more than 'boy meets girl, some sort of conflict where boy has to fight for girl, a single kiss during a romantic sunset, marriage, live happily ever after'..