I don’t watch him, and everything I know is from second hand accounts, but there is real trauma associated with poverty. As someone who grew up poor (sometimes, not all the time), with family that also grew up poor, it really affects your mentality. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a distinct mental illness, and you can make the argument that everyone’s life circumstances affect their mental state, but that seems like a level of trauma that is affecting his life and health. I’d say it’s abnormal at least, if not actually diagnosable. There’s a lack of love and respect for yourself that must be occurring to live like that. No one deserves to live like that and the fact he was possibly raised like that and thinks it’s acceptable is truly devastating. I hope he gets help. This makes his statement seem like less of a “fuck these people” kind of thing and more of a “no one ever showed me love or empathy or cared for me so I have no concept of how to extend that to others.” Legitimately extremely sad.
There was a compounding issue where his mother died, so he was depressed and nobody else had to deal with his situation than him, so he just wallowed in misery. For a while he was streaming 10+ hours every single day and that plus the depression and the psychological burden of people harassing him took its toll. He still has his dad, and I anticipate a severe regression once he dies and we may see the worst Asmond the internet can imagine.
He is in a better place now, but he admits he still has problems that he is working on slowly. I think the constant harassment he still deals with does affect him more than he lets on, but he has become accustomed to it because he understands his takes on things are inflammatory to a subset of the population that is very vocal and occupies the same online space he does.
I don’t watch him, and everything I know is from second hand accounts, but there is real trauma associated with poverty. As someone who grew up poor (sometimes, not all the time), with family that also grew up poor, it really affects your mentality. I’m not saying it’s necessarily a distinct mental illness, and you can make the argument that everyone’s life circumstances affect their mental state, but that seems like a level of trauma that is affecting his life and health. I’d say it’s abnormal at least, if not actually diagnosable. There’s a lack of love and respect for yourself that must be occurring to live like that. No one deserves to live like that and the fact he was possibly raised like that and thinks it’s acceptable is truly devastating. I hope he gets help. This makes his statement seem like less of a “fuck these people” kind of thing and more of a “no one ever showed me love or empathy or cared for me so I have no concept of how to extend that to others.” Legitimately extremely sad.
You are right on all points.
There was a compounding issue where his mother died, so he was depressed and nobody else had to deal with his situation than him, so he just wallowed in misery. For a while he was streaming 10+ hours every single day and that plus the depression and the psychological burden of people harassing him took its toll. He still has his dad, and I anticipate a severe regression once he dies and we may see the worst Asmond the internet can imagine.
He is in a better place now, but he admits he still has problems that he is working on slowly. I think the constant harassment he still deals with does affect him more than he lets on, but he has become accustomed to it because he understands his takes on things are inflammatory to a subset of the population that is very vocal and occupies the same online space he does.