I am so sorry for what you went through. I can say I understand because I have a relative who did the same with her children. They are grown now but still fell the affects of it.
But had your mother murdered a brother or sister would you still have done exactly as she said? If you so much as suspected her would you have lied for her? THIS I could not understand.
I’m sure LS didn’t inform HH that she murdered Gannon, and HH didn’t know his blood was all over the house. I’m also sure that LS had some whopper victim tales for needing a ride, needing cars backed in, needing cleaning items, needing helpful storylines, and all the other things that had her relying on her daughter in the course of her crime adventure.
The “What do you want me to say?” moment, when LS was performing her interview scene with Spencer, and she commanded, “I need H...”, and HH dutifully reported to duty, tells a story itself. LS wasn’t functioning as a mother, she was a director in a scene from her movie where she had cast herself as a victim heroine. HH was cued up at the moment that LS needed a distracting family scene with a heartwarming Burger King end to the evening. HH spoke the lines she was told to speak. My impression of that moment was she really had no idea why she was suddenly in the scene.
Her mother is someone who breezily began broadcasting a runaway tale from the scene of her grotesque crime, apparently while her victim’s body was still on site, presumably because that was the moment in her script where it was time to say, “Gee golly, I have a missing step-son. I’m going to call the police.” She was confident she could pull this off because she’d been getting away with manipulating and snowing people all her life. And because she’s too nuts to perceive how high risk that really was.
Or was it? The police were none the wiser, with the body of the missing child right under their noses. Because that’s how it works with an LS type.
HH went into training the moment she was born. Children of these kinds of people are pawns on a game board. I’ve watched three of them in my own life march like bots and parrot their psychopathic mother’s words as smoothly as the next note in a song follows the melody. They are victims. They really believe their mother is a heroine who’s been persecuted.
Now after reading the AA, and seeing that LS is even crazier than we imagined, nothing in the behavior of any minor in a relationship with her would surprise me. We don’t know what LE knows about HH and any role she had, or under what influence. But based on my tragic experiences, the first thing I would say if I got to teach a class in this, is if everyone on the periphery feels like their head was run through a blender after encountering someone like LS, as we’ve encountered her, imagine what it’s like to live with her from birth and have your brain puréed on a daily basis.
