Rosemary MacCabe

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ZeroCraic said:
If you or your son 'have autism' - you will know that getting a diagnosis for a neurodivergence is not a simple process. You don't just show up and ask 'Please can I have one ADHD diagnosis, thank you' and get handed it on a platter 'to stay relevant'.
You need medical records, to complete a full history, an intense one to one with a psychiatrist, supporting letters from family/ teachers/ employers. You need to demonstrate that this condition has impacted on your life from before the age of 12.
Going the private route costs in excess of £1000 - I can't imagine there are many people with £1000 to spare just to stay relevant.
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IT WAS A SARCASTIC JOKE! My son was diagnosed publicly in November 2019 in the public system. It cost us nothing. My diagnosis came in June 2022 it cost €550 and months of work. We’re in Ireland. Im not sure where you are. Whatever about judgement of how others react to children, your own judgement of me is horrible. You have no idea how difficult growing up was for me or how I manage now. There is absolutely no support for adults who have learned to pretend to cope in an allistic world. I am more than aware of how to advocate for my son whether he ‘has autism’ or ‘is autistic’. I have weekly calls with Enable Ireland to remind them that we are still here and still waiting for some particular services. Finally, thank you for policing my description of myself and my son. I hope it makes you as a non neurodivergent person feel better about yourself. Make sure to correct everyone you meet about this. It really shows what kind of ally you are. 🙄
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Ellamay87 said:
How does she support herself earning seemingly so little yet still afford to buy shite and takeaways etc non stop?
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Exactly! No mention of debt at all or what Brandon contributes.
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The projection in her current story is classic! Id think it was AI if I didn’t know better. I didn’t say half of the stuff she is claiming, she is filling in the gaps herself. 😂
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God, no one said it was selfish to take your kids to a restaurant, literally no one. My point about Atlas was to get some perspective on his experience when out and about. And it was YOUR MOTHER Rosemary who judged you for the iPhone, no one else.
 
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Nancy & Donald said:
She didn't compare herself to Doireann. She said how much she got for her gig at Cheltenham. I found it really interesting to hear how little she is paid for an article.
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She is passionate about writing so she isn't going to, nor should she.
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What's the going rate for the type of article the likes of her would churn out?
 
I actually can't with the pity party on her stories last night.

Why does she insist on talking about Tattle, without giving the full picture. She's well aware that they are loads of people here who actually like her very much, so much that she also has a rave thread. People buying her book, saying they're happy for her, defending her when she's being bratty...... but thats not part of the poor me narrative.

I think its good that she admits that she reads about herself (because, they all do, she's just one of the very few who admit it), but why be so blinkered. Does she just enjoy reveling in her own misery, even when it's only half the picture? Or is she trawling for attention, and knows the rave thread won't get her any sympathy.
 
SozBbz said:
I actually can't with the pity party on her stories last night.

Why does she insist on talking about Tattle, without giving the full picture. She's well aware that they are loads of people here who actually like her very much, so much that she also has a rave thread. People buying her book, saying they're happy for her, defending her when she's being bratty...... but thats not part of the poor me narrative.

I think its good that she admits that she reads about herself (because, they all do, she's just one of the very few who admit it), but why be so blinkered. Does she just enjoy reveling in her own misery, even when it's only half the picture? Or is she trawling for attention, and knows the rave thread won't get her any sympathy.
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I think it was really disingenuous to be honest. She makes the choice to sell her and her families personal lives, she knows and we know that that is how she makes her money. Her content is her and her family pretty much exclusively. Then she is wondering why people comment on her content?

Like someone said earlier she is like an Irish Liz Jones, she doesn't present herself very well, she wrote an entire book about how desperate she was for a man for instance but she doesn't expect comments on it? She share her sons autism diagnosis but doesn't expect comments? She writes in detail about being too lazy to even make her own food and doesn't expect comments on it? I get that of course it is hard reading negative things about yourself but why tell us these thing then? Well money of course but 😭 I barely make any money. It's enough to sell your families privacy though eh?

Get more therapy because your constant search for validation from a man, from strangers on the internet, is never going to lead anywhere good. All she wanted from that is Aw Rosemary don't stop sharing about you and your gorgeous family, I love you so much and would miss seeing how many take aways you ordered this week, validation to keep selling out her family. You are nearly 40, time to start learning to like yourself, I'm sure you will get loads of lovely comments but you know they won't change the way you feel about yourself deep down, only you can do that.
 
CailínBeag said:
See I wouldn't think of that as being "judgemental to a child" more of a "this doesn't fit my situation and its annoying for me" type of look.

Because if I was out for a meal and there was a screaming child near me that was not being removed you can be damn sure I'd be throwing a "read the room" side eye. I get it, kids get fussy but if it's going on for more than 5 minutes I get very annoyed. I'd do the same for kids running around, someone coughing openly, blowing their nose loudly etc. There's ways to behave in public and child or not, disrupting others in the space is not it.
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Like the scene in Sex and The City when Samantha says "this place is for Double Cappuccinos, not Double Strollers" 🤣
 
So Rosemary calls herself a journalist/writer is that right? Does a journalist/writer not write articles books etc with the aim of them being read, becoming topical? Dont they want the topic of article to be thought provoking, ignite discussion, debate and be the topic of people's conversation?

So if Rosemary, almost quite literally, only writes about herself and her life, how can she complain that people are discussing her? Just because she can't control the narrative here and it's not all positive reviews of her life.

Guess what Rosemary? You CAN control what you write about! So if you can't handle critiques you deem to be negative then you need to stop putting your entire life out there for money. Decide what's more important to you, money or mental wellbeing.
 
Well no, a journalist and a writer are not the same thing. A journalist writes on specific topics and does some research/interviews around it eg interest rate hikes and how they impact families or Sinead O’Conners’ death and its’ impact on the Irish community in London. A writer would be hired to write on a specific subject eg a copywriter to write about a new product from Lynx or a blog or a money diary or my latest purchase from Dunnes. Classic Irish Indo fodder. Rosemary is a writer and does not claim to be a journalist at the moment.
 
But she ultimately has control over what she writes about regardless of what she calls herself, which is basically my point. All of it is within her control. So if she doesn't like the feedback on it, she has the choice not to put it out there. And yes she said her mental health might not be able to take working in an office for someone else, but there are plenty of other jobs out there that don't require that, and yes I know her visa conditions blah blah blah, so get a flight back to Ireland and work in your local supermarket, become a dog walker, a cleaner, a warehouse picker, a delivery driver, any number of other jobs not in an office!

It is all her own choice, so live with the consequences of your own choices Rosemary, that's life.
 
My mental health can’t take working a 40 hour week either but guess what, I have to do it, cos bills and kids! And I don’t expect others to have to fork out for those. And am I the only one who thought getting $150 for a small written piece wasn’t half bad, especially when she said she didn’t think she would get paid for it at all? I think she can be quite ungrateful at times. Like saying she didn’t expect her book to get anywhere near where it did, and then when it fell from #1 she was pissed off and moaning. Same about not expecting to get paid for the piece and then when she did she moaned about what she got paid.

I’m not being mean here and I actually quite like Rosemary but her absolute need to be liked and adored by everyone at all times is ridiculous. Who cares if she reads a bit of waffle about herself every now and again? Most of it isn’t that deep. And I’m not sure if she realises it about herself but she has handed over the authority on making herself happy to everyone else, instead of doing it herself.
 
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