Faking Cancer
Profoundly sad, nothing less, when a twenty-three year-old woman is so eager to draw attention to herself, to elicit pity, concern, compassion, that she poses as someone undergoing cancer treatments. Whose heart wouldn't be torn, seeing a wan young face expressing fears for an uncertain future?
So attention was paid the young woman, by co-workers, sympathetic strangers, people generally moved by her story of courage under adversity.
What is interesting in this story is that the young woman, Ashley Kirilow, did in fact, suffer the mental agony of believing she had cancer. In 2009 she discovered a lump in her breast. It was removed and laboratory results indicated no threat of cancer. But she hid the results from her parents from whom she was estranged, leaving them to believe that she indeed was suffering from cancer.
This is a troubled young woman, disaffected, alone and anxious for someone to feel concern about her. She is also a vain young woman, willing to present herself as someone in need under false conditions; her moral compass obviously skewed. She deliberately left the unmistakable impression with vulnerably manipulative people that she needed help.
And people responded. She collected funding that was obtained under false circumstances through her deceitful behaviour. It did not represent a lot of money, although by establishing a charity on her own behalf perhaps she anticipated that she would eventually amass a considerable amount of charitable donations.
The money she did avail herself of, was spent frivolously. This is the behaviour of a ethically challenged young woman who tried by desperate means to find solicitous friends who could be relied upon to offer sympathy and care to her. While she went about blithely posing as a victim, and childishly threw herself into a sad charade.
Her parents appear to be disinterested in her welfare, if their non-appearance in court is to be taken as a signal of non-involvement. The young woman is obviously in need of psychological counselling. This is a profoundly sad story, and one that doesn't appear to have an identifiable potential for the woman to redeem herself.
She is obviously emotionally needy, emotionally immature, and sadly alone. Life is often cruel and disorienting, a miserable combination when there are no emotional supports for a lost soul to lean upon for comfort and direction. Her future does not appear too hopeful.
So attention was paid the young woman, by co-workers, sympathetic strangers, people generally moved by her story of courage under adversity.
What is interesting in this story is that the young woman, Ashley Kirilow, did in fact, suffer the mental agony of believing she had cancer. In 2009 she discovered a lump in her breast. It was removed and laboratory results indicated no threat of cancer. But she hid the results from her parents from whom she was estranged, leaving them to believe that she indeed was suffering from cancer.
This is a troubled young woman, disaffected, alone and anxious for someone to feel concern about her. She is also a vain young woman, willing to present herself as someone in need under false conditions; her moral compass obviously skewed. She deliberately left the unmistakable impression with vulnerably manipulative people that she needed help.
And people responded. She collected funding that was obtained under false circumstances through her deceitful behaviour. It did not represent a lot of money, although by establishing a charity on her own behalf perhaps she anticipated that she would eventually amass a considerable amount of charitable donations.
The money she did avail herself of, was spent frivolously. This is the behaviour of a ethically challenged young woman who tried by desperate means to find solicitous friends who could be relied upon to offer sympathy and care to her. While she went about blithely posing as a victim, and childishly threw herself into a sad charade.
Her parents appear to be disinterested in her welfare, if their non-appearance in court is to be taken as a signal of non-involvement. The young woman is obviously in need of psychological counselling. This is a profoundly sad story, and one that doesn't appear to have an identifiable potential for the woman to redeem herself.
She is obviously emotionally needy, emotionally immature, and sadly alone. Life is often cruel and disorienting, a miserable combination when there are no emotional supports for a lost soul to lean upon for comfort and direction. Her future does not appear too hopeful.
Labels: Family, Social-Cultural Deviations
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