Jack Monroe #38 Will she call her next cat Sue Purrkins?

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No apologies needed! Your thoughts are always appreciated.

She's certainly an odd case... however, I think it's possible to have ASD, which is indeed a very wide spectrum, and also do the things JM does.
Not all but many with ASD are able to lie, though we have more difficulty covering up our lie by maintaining consistency between our initial lie and subsequent statements. I was diagnosed when I was about 12 and as a child I was apparently a very good little fibber. I think it came from me developing a strong ability to act - something I did to try and fit in with social norms, desperate to mask that I was different. But I learnt not to lie as I got older because 1) I'd get punished 2) I learnt morality and 3) it just makes life more complicated!

Also, as most of us are very imaginative, many with ASD are brilliant story-tellers (but we're honest and say our stories are fiction!). JM uses her imagination to fabricate the stories which she tries to pass off as the truth.



Oh shut up Jack with your 'real deep sense of justice and injustice' 'because autistic'. I find much of your behaviour deeply unjust and I hate the way you pull the diagnosis out the bag when it suits you, either as an excuse for rude behaviour or to garner sympathy.

Thank you for your perspective here, I know very few neurodiverse people in real life and I think I am unintentionally quite focused on her very apparent dysregulation regarding the ADHD. THE IRONY :)

BTW quoting from a prev thread as I started this post many hours ago so just copied. I'm not magic frau!

Awwwwww David :love:

Something that gives me a real boost and is a particular summer habit of mine is a rewatch of the Stop Making Sense performance. I want to be Tina so much haha

 
Hi all,
Long term lurker and can I firstly just say this thread had made me laugh out loud on many an occasion - you are all hilarious and thank you (and Jack) for keeping me entertained through lockdown.

Secondly - I saw she posted on insta earlier (or last night) that her ‘ouchy mouth’ was nearly better but she is still avoiding tomatoes (and a few other things). I swear a while ago she had some other ailment that meant she no longer ate tomatoes so she now had cut them out of her diet and was going to write a cookbook on it. If I can be bothered I’ll find the tweets or insta post (If not already deleted) but if she had genuinely cut them out of her diet for that they wouldn’t be an issue for the mouth thing. She can’t keep up with the lies.
Anyway, still need to fully read thread #31 so back to it...
 
Hi all,
Long term lurker and can I firstly just say this thread had made me laugh out loud on many an occasion - you are all hilarious and thank you (and Jack) for keeping me entertained through lockdown.

Secondly - I saw she posted on insta earlier (or last night) that her ‘ouchy mouth’ was nearly better but she is still avoiding tomatoes (and a few other things). I swear a while ago she had some other ailment that meant she no longer ate tomatoes so she now had cut them out of her diet and was going to write a cookbook on it. If I can be bothered I’ll find the tweets or insta post (If not already deleted) but if she had genuinely cut them out of her diet for that they wouldn’t be an issue for the mouth thing. She can’t keep up with the lies.
Anyway, still need to fully read thread #31 so back to it...

Yes she told the story of her sudden allergy to tomatoes in her typical understated, very realistic and not at all dramatised style...
 

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Hi all,
Long term lurker and can I firstly just say this thread had made me laugh out loud on many an occasion - you are all hilarious and thank you (and Jack) for keeping me entertained through lockdown.

Secondly - I saw she posted on insta earlier (or last night) that her ‘ouchy mouth’ was nearly better but she is still avoiding tomatoes (and a few other things). I swear a while ago she had some other ailment that meant she no longer ate tomatoes so she now had cut them out of her diet and was going to write a cookbook on it. If I can be bothered I’ll find the tweets or insta post (If not already deleted) but if she had genuinely cut them out of her diet for that they wouldn’t be an issue for the mouth thing. She can’t keep up with the lies.
Anyway, still need to fully read thread #31 so back to it...
I think it was raw tomatoes.
 
Hi all,
Long term lurker and can I firstly just say this thread had made me laugh out loud on many an occasion - you are all hilarious and thank you (and Jack) for keeping me entertained through lockdown.

Secondly - I saw she posted on insta earlier (or last night) that her ‘ouchy mouth’ was nearly better but she is still avoiding tomatoes (and a few other things). I swear a while ago she had some other ailment that meant she no longer ate tomatoes so she now had cut them out of her diet and was going to write a cookbook on it. If I can be bothered I’ll find the tweets or insta post (If not already deleted) but if she had genuinely cut them out of her diet for that they wouldn’t be an issue for the mouth thing. She can’t keep up with the lies.
Anyway, still need to fully read thread #31 so back to it...

Nice username!
 
I went off to google Jack's tomato woes, and came across this article from early 2020. Thought y'all would appreciate some recipe inspiration:

"...six exclusive recipes from Jack Monroe including carrot cake drop scones which uses canned carrots and mandarin segments."

Er, no thanks, love, I'm full up just now.
I love carrot cake.
Why can’t she just use fresh? Canned carrots are bleurgh and surely fresh are just as cheap??
It’s wrong, all wrong I tell you.
 
That whole paragraph should be the recipe for bad days - it’s hard not to read that without laughing.

‘I wailed at the gentle doctor’ bahahaha
I swear her and Liz Jones are the same person, if social media had existed when she was 32.

I am very baffled, how can your skin be too big on your hands and feet?🤣
In honour of his birthday -
 
I think (if I remember rightly) she was having to embark on a tomato-free diet for a while as they figured out the cause of her illness (or whatever it was). She definitely made a big song and dance about having to cut out tomatoes, but then, magically, they reappeared.

Was an allergy to oysters ever mentioned? I had a quick look but the only mentions I saw were on here.
 
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