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Andrew wants people to believe he has moved on from fandom and recovered from the illness that made him believe he was hobbits and Hogwarts characters, and is now passionately involved in cosplay and costume design and a hard-working student. I believe, however, that he has recently begun trying to make his friends, fans, and fellow cosplayers–who make up the majority of his friends on Facebook–believe that he literally is Bucky Barnes, or has some kind of supernatural connection of some kind to him. I think he has moved off tumblr for privacy, because people are hesitant to share Facebook posts, but I can no longer stay silent about this matter.
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Oh, Andy. I went to check if I had missed anything, and he had posted this. Hair color can lighten when spring and summer hit–that’s normal. Your hair changing “for the first time in [your] life” to fit a character you are having “memories” from? That’s a little harder to believe.
I was afraid of something like this. Not only is Andrew gleefully jumping down the rabbit hole–whether he’s deliberately gearing up to start yet another fandom cult, or taking the risk that a very real mental illness will spiral out of control again–but he is once again making his friends responsible for monitoring his mental health:
“Is it ok that I’m also super relieved and grateful to have you specifically on my Facebook…because you better than anyone else could recognize the signs if I was sliding?”
NO, ANDY, IT IS NOT OKAY. IT IS NOT HEALTHY. YOU NEED TO STOP.
You’re absolutely right about the breadcrumbs. He’s teasing with, “ooh, I remember all these things that I could not possibly have experienced; how can this be?!” while lampshading it with disclaimers that he’s not saying it’s supernatural in any way. This is exactly the sort of thing he did with Abbey and the other BagEnders, gradually ramping up the “recollections” about hobbits and elves and even Tolkien himself until each of them “discovered on their own” that he was channeling! The disclaimers in this case allow him to maintain deniability if anyone confronts him about setting up another cult. I imagine that if he’d succeeded in this instance, he would have said that whatever his targets believed was their own responsibility as he’d assured them that there had to be a rational explanation for everything.
Thank you so much for bringing this to light, whoever you are. It sounds like Andrew is still in the early stages of setting this up, so you may well have spared some people a great deal of pain down the road.
Oh for the love of Christ.
You know what, we’ve been doing memory work for the past year and a half. And I’ve tried to be overwhelmingly clear that I am uncertain how true a lot of it is–in fact, I think it’s impossible for our memory to be accurate in all things, never mind this.
So I find it bitterly hilarious that Andy, who claims he was majorly psychotic and is now remembering things he couldn’t possibly know… and yet never once does any of his followers go, “Dude, it’s a false memory.” I mean, for Christ’s sake, dude, the taste of macaroni and cheese? The brand of which you’ve never tried? That’s a false memory. There you go. There’s your explanation. No woo, not even some big dramatic psychotic episode. You’re just plain fucking wrong. (Note I don’t think he’s having these memories; I think he’s just a fucking liar. But seriously, it’s the most obvious simple explanation.)
God, it makes me so angry, because this is the shit I’m constantly worried about in my brain, and he’s doing it to manipulate other people ON PURPOSE.
And his chief enabler is normalizing it. It’s like DAYDverse all over again.
Exactly how long has the whole Bucky thing been going on? Because that whole free range kids “I was groped” story (discussed here) makes more sense if you mentally change the setting to the thirties or forties–the whole biking to the barber (complete with stereotypical Italian accent) doesn’t really fit with any era I’ve been alive in, much less Andy. Even the voice of the piece sounds like roleplaying to fit with these stereotypical ideas about that era.
I am so glad that other people saw that free range kids thing. It creeped me out intensely. Too bad discussion of it got effectively derailed, at least in that link.
There are so many gullible women on parenting boards - especially in the pregnancy and childbirth ones. And Andy was baby obsessed when I was with him and I know for a fact from multiple DAYDians that he was really pushing the matchmaker stuff with specific pressure to have babies.