What can we DU now to help TTW and Yoshi ?

[SheilaT]

366. SheilaT (and please spell my name correctly)

never blamed the vicious dog as a cause of her troubles. I did point out that very early on TTW all but bragged that Yoshi would attack anyone who came on to the property if she weren't home, and even said a plumber was not willing to work there if the dog was there but TTW wasn't.

I suspect that Yoshi has never been properly socialized and that's what Msanthrope and her ex discovered when they -- out of genuine goodness -- took the dog in for a while.

Meanwhile it is absolutely true that TTW ignored perfectly good advice from the beginning. Suggesting she give up Yoshi was actually not often mentioned in the beginning. I don't think anyone has trolled her GFM thread -- is that even possible? -- and the suggestions of scamming actually came from the fact that she kept on coming back, quite regularly, begging for money. She had a very lengthy story about her woes, none of which were ever her fault or responsibility, turned down more than one offer to house Yoshi, and I think even at least one offer to her with a place to live. She did, according to her, have a friend from California pay off a bunch of stuff, and yet she stayed in her place that, according to her, had been essentially uninhabitable for years. There was never a lot of logic to what she said.

For those of you not familiar with this lengthy odyssey, here are links to the first four, and only the first four, of at least thirteen threads devoted to TTW and her situation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026597184 Apr 30, 2015

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026473464 Apr 5, 2015

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026442802 Mar 31, 2015

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026221474 Feb 13, 2015

Please read through them, those who think we who are skeptical are simply heartless cynics. Notice all the times she doesn't respond to good and useful suggestion, the times she totally freaks out over her situation. Her inability to navigate GoFundMe or Paypal. Her blaming her losing her job on her landlady. And every time she simply came back with a request for more money. That's the mark of a scammer.

However, I no longer think she's as much of a scammer as someone who is mentally ill. Her taking Yoshi back and her lashing out at Msanthrope who had tried everything in her power to help, indicates that.

In the end, as sad as it sounds, there really is nothing we can do as a community for TTW. If someone here were willing and financially able to rent her an apartment for the rest of her life, that would be a great kindness, but it's not very likely to happen. And even if that kind and generous person existed, I suspect that somewhere down the road TTW would stir things up, create enormous drama, because that's the main thread of her life.