Skigirl
Verified expert in neuroscience & psychology
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I do not trust things said by HT, I know there are many who take all her statements as fact and others who take the parts they want to believe as facts and the rest as hearsay. To me she has come across as someone who was less than a true friend to LS and that is just my own opinion concerning her. To me her interviews do not seem genuine, for whatever reason. I also believe she knows more than she is saying. In forming this opinion I have looked at her body language, tone of voice and the way she says things both in video interviews and from quotes in print. I have 4 girls (ages 3 to 23) and have had many of their friends at our home over the last 20 years of raising girls and have never seen one true friend of my children express theirself in the way she does. Now I could be all wrong in my assumptions and I hope I am, but I just can't get over my nagging doubt when I hear what she has to say.
My take on HT is a little different. I'm trying to put myself in her shoes, thinking that some people I like and trust are suspected of hurting someone else I like and care about. I think she gathered a bunch of information from POIs early on, some of which may not be true, and took it rather unquestioningly because she doesn't want to believe that any of them have anything to do with it. I read her as someone who cares about LS, but who also doesn't want to believe that people in her extended circle of friends have anything to do with it, and so is trying to steer other peoples' perceptions in another direction -- one that she believes to be the truth. At the end of the day, both perceptions would have same end result; only the motive would differ.