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[quote=Anonymous]My thoughts, as someone who used to unironically follow Myka since shortly before they went to go get Huxley. Something seemed a bit off from the beginning, but I figured it was just the persona that she puts on for videos not translating well to the situation. Then they brought him home and it became very clear how unprepared she was, despite all the videos she'd made about bonding and attachment and so on. Myka has a pattern of talking about things while not appearing to let them truly sink in.

Speaking of patterns, you know how YouTube (or any social media, for that matter), is usually carefully curated into a "highlight reel" of life? That makes it really telling when someone leaves something questionable in their content, because it means that they had to look at it during the hours they spent editing and say, "Yes, this is acceptable." and post it. Like there was a clip of Myka rejecting Huxley's hug, or even just dumb stuff she's said after years of being a public figure (like saying "decompose" when she means "decompress", or saying she *thinks* that "Kyoto" is a city in Japan but that it's definitely a nice name for a baby).

Another incident that comes to mind is when Myka decided to give Huxley an haircut very soon after bringing him home that wasn't totally necessary, and was sort of a "faux-hawk" style that involved buzzing the sides very short. Her husband had the camera and came upon her taking him out of the bathroom; Huxley was screaming, crying, and clearly very distressed, while Myka was smiling and beaming about how he looked "so much cuter". This was well before things started to go downhill with his potential diagnoses. (As I type this, I went back to find the video where this happened and it appears to have been deleted! So that's another one.)

I think Myka is a person who doesn't look at things the same way as everyone else. It explains why she manages her online presence the way she is, and why she manages to get so far into things like adoption without understanding them properly.

Even if it were imperative that Huxley be removed from the home for either his siblings' safety (if he was violent, etc.) or his own, Myka and and her husband (because he's just as responsible) are still NOT handling the situation properly. Myka shouldn't be showing her other kids at all right now, and her recent content about "being positive" and "ignoring trolls" rings hollow and is in extraordinarily bad taste. Having an adoption fail is a devastating thing to experience and she's making it seem like she's doing better than ever and is ready to get defensive over their choices. 
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