As an ND person I don’t see either how that has any bearing in the saga. Even IF this was a case of rejection sensitivity, my ND crowd’s idea would never be “she doesn’t know me”.
What kind of neurodivergent is she, does she have ADHD? It certainly can affect how people react to things and other people, but it's not an excuse for treating other people badly, that's the difference.
@@powderandpaint14 Ana recently claimed that she has ADHD, and conveniently mentioned a product that helps her cope with it. I think she’s lying because for all the years that she’s been on TH-cam she’s never mentioned or eluded to it.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809I mean it is definitely a possibility, we aren’t her doctors so we can’t effectively assess it. But her lack of executive function, and impulsivity means that’s a possibility. But I think a large chunk of gorlworld pretend like they are ND because it sounds good to them.
@@Chuckakhan Yes, but my comment was more so about how Anna will claim she has something just to push a product. It’s possible she has ADHD, but with the way Anna is, she more than likely would have said she has ADHD much earlier than she did even without a proper assessment, so that’s why I think she said that just to sell a product. I personally think the way she acts is due to her being drunk cuz she looks hammered in a lot of her videos, but who really knows.
what is it with everyone claiming just being awkward and shy as being neurodivergent? Im super weird and awkward because i have low self esteem and feel inadequate at all times has nothing to do with being neurodivergent. some people just need to work on social skills
Exactly! Ugh I hate the diluting of ADHD and ND diagnoses! It hurts those who actually do suffer from them because nobody believes them or thinks they are trying to get attention or special treatment.
“super weird and awkward” is not something my nd folks would ever say to describe themselves either. They usually describe what their issues are in social contexts.
This comment and replies are incorrect. I’m autistic and have ADHD and I say I’m awkward all the time. It’s a way for me to joke about the challenges I experience in everyday interactions. Nobody has the right to determine if someone else’s lived experience is valid. Who bestowed upon you guys the power to do that? It seems you guys might be hurt if someone else discussing their experience makes you react so aggressively. This might be something to look into for your own happiness.
@@yucabacho Pretty much, Full family of diagnosed ND people two parents, two kids, and we fly our weird and awkward flags high. Is it possible the poster above is actually meeting more ND people who aren't hiding in the closet? I mean, you used to never see gay people in the 60s, obviously all these people are pretending to be gay! (Joking)
I commented something similar on Kayla Shaye’s video about this earlier today 😂 I’m sure the trail clapped after she finished chastising that evil encouraging woman
now she’s exaggerating what the woman said the first time around. she didn’t say any of that in her original post. she’s making it up because she caught grief for being a psycho over a compliment.
If that had happened she would have 100% told us the first time. Like imagine someone actually making fatphobic comments to her and her not making content out of it immediately
Anna also cried about the whole happiness retreat thing, right? At least once. Also, there is an epidemic. A pandemic. Of people misunderstanding the meaning of boundaries. Boundaries are not a way to control what other people do. It’s how you define what *you* do. For example, you can’t make strangers do what you want on the trail. What you can do is decide that if someone says something you don’t like, you walk away instead of humoring them. You can’t set rules for OTHER PEOPLE. You can say, “If you continue to do X, I will disengage or not hang out with you etc.” You can’t say, “you are not allowed to do X.”
Imagine if she goes to a marathon or Tough Mudder where people are constantly giving words of encouragement and support. Is she going to freak out on a hapless volunteer offering water? “How dare you assume I’m thirsty?! …my body can hold 40lbs of water…respect my boundaries!”
lol, I'd love to see her at something like a tough Mudder. She'd be that person who melts down halfway through and then blames the event not her own self.
I totally thought this the other day. She would have an absolute meltdown if she ever did an actual event, where we all yell “GOOD JOB, RUNNER” like unhinged banshees. The very first trail half I did (completely under trained, no less), I found myself completely falling apart and dying on the second loop. An elderly gentleman, prolly 70+, caught up to me at some point on the trail and said, “I’ve seen you run this entire race, you’re such an inspiration!”😂🫠 He was very sincere, and in the moment, it was actually very sweet. The community and energy actually kept me coming back to trail running. Five years later, I ran my first 50 miler (albeit slowly😂)
@@TinyBlueAnthropologistI genuinely don’t think the race administrators would let someone like Anna run the tough mudder not that it wouldn’t hilarious
Anna is such a ball of insecurity underneath all the happy shiny positivity. That's why I have trouble with her - she comes off as so disingenuous. If she's struggling feeling confident as a plus size woman doing physical things, then she needs to be honest about it rather than projecting it on the people she comes in contact with. 'Good job getting out there' isn't insulting. I can see how it inadvertently threw her off, but the problem isn't the woman (who did nothing wrong), but how Anna sees herself. She wants to be seen as the fit, strong, inspirational fitness guru, but she's not really. She's a beginner runner (which is fine - so am I, we all have to start somewhere), but that woman reminded her that the image she tries to project isn't reality.
I wish Anna would admit to being a beginner runner. No runner believes that Anna actually runs several miles per session. I’d like to follow her on Strava and genuinely cheer on her eventual progress. But her make-believe land is getting tiresome.
Exactly, if she could lean into the positivity than runners have, she would be good. 99% of the time, folks are not concerned about you, they are partaking in the good vibes. It's not as deep as she makes it. As someone who can have an overactive inner monologue, I know to just shut up and say thank you.
I walk in town almost every day. I smile at folks, talk to others sometimes, give a fist bump if I think it's warranted. It's definitely part of the culture. Anna is just NOT a nice person.
It’s just part of being a human being living in a community of other human beings. Interactions happen, sometimes even regularly, especially in exercise areas! Lol who woulda thunk it?
It's great she's getting out there but I agree with the many people who have said that she's not doing it for as long or as many times as she says she does.
I was thinking that. Why on God's green earth is someone that weighs at much as she does trying to run? Literally, no professional trainer or doctor would suggest that. She's far more likely to get injured and then be completely immobile.
I live in Nebraska and am a major introvert. I love walking and biking on the trails. We all nod, smile, or say hi to each other. I like to joke that that's all it takes for me to get my social fix for the day 😄
I stumbled onto G&L a few months ago, & while I enjoy her clothing hauls, I sussed out her defensive, angry personality immediately. She is very unhappy but trying to make the world - & more importantly, herself - believe she is happy-go-lucky. I would not want to meet her.
I low key think maybe her taking Wegovy is effecting her mental health. Her behavior has been so much worse since she has bee on it and she is super reactive. From the internet "Does Wegovy cause mood changes? Wegovy has also been found to make some people agitated, irritable, and they may even experience irregular mood changes. It may also cause some people to become depressed or have suicidal thoughts."
Interesting. I mean it is theoretically messing with your gut microbe and that has been shown to cause mood swings as well. I don't know if she's still on the wegov though. So anything is possible.
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist CelinaSpookyBoo (I think that’s how you spell it?) posted a video a while back about how Ozempic really messed with her mood/mental health.
27:49 lol who’s having whole conversations like this on a running trail. If you’re running on a trail you’re out of breath and wearing headphones. “Hey good job keep going!” As they jog by I believe, but that second story is too many words lol
I'm the mom to two autistic kids and two more who have ADHD. I really hate how being neurodivergent has become an excuse for bad behavior. I know that every ND person is different but in my experience my children are devastated (and internalize it) when they have an awkward encounter or misunderstand an interaction. They don't gleefully retell it.
100% this. I had a positive interaction in a meeting yesterday where I got excited and felt like I overshared, and I almost let it ruin my day. If I acted the way Anna did, I’d delete every social media account I had and disappear. Also, Anna’s whole vibe now makes me sad. When I discovered Anna years ago, it was just when she was beginning to get recognition with her dancing. I was at a terrible place in my life, and she made me happy. It helped me seek out dance fitness. Now that I’m in a much better mental space and have been working on my fitness and dancing, I feel bad that she can’t get out of her own way. Everyone has the right to express themselves and be authentic, but at some point she has to acknowledge her part in her life and how people react to her.
As an autistic and ADHD adult who just recently was diagnosed, I have to call you out. Adults who are neurodivergent generally have to mask to make it in life. That masking comes in many forms that you might not understand. Some people mask with substance abuse. Some people mask by being a “tough guy.” Everyone is different. I masked with “bad” behavior because it was easier for me to deal with that than accept the shame of being different. Your experience with an autistic kid, who is able to live in a world where his autism is accepted and acknowledged is WAY different than a grown adult who has had to develop masking strategies all their lives to feel safe. Honor your kids by honoring that every neurodivergent experience is different. Like they say: you meet one neurodivergent person, you’ve met one neurodivergent person.
@@yucabacho 4 of my 5 kids are neurodivergent. Out of those 4, three are adults (27-32). Out of those 4, 2 are AuADHD. Out of those 2, 1 is a woman. I have not been officially diagnosed as autistic but I suspect I am. (My 4 older kids are from my first marriage and my youngest is with my current husband. Neither set of inlaws have a history of ND so it's highly likely it's from my side of the family.) I was officially diagnosed with ADHD three years ago. My experience is just that, my experience but it also reflects my experience as a parent who is ND with both a young child who is ND as well as adult ND kids, the mom of black kids( who are often labeled as 'bad' instead of autistic) and a daughter whose ADHD and autism presented itself in very different ways than her brothers. I know what masking is and how it works. I'm a 50 year old black woman raising black autistic kids one of whom is a boy who will be a (large...dad is 6'3 240 lbs) black man in the US. I'm VERY familiar with masking and what it takes to get thru life. I also recognize ND people are not a monolith. I'm speaking about Anna specifically and what she's chosen to show us on the internet and the current trend of people, specifically white women, using being neurodivergent as an excuse or a way to deflect from their bad behavior when called out on it, which is what Anna did. This one instance in the context of ALL of her internet behavior seems disingenuous and not a result of any kind of ND to ME.
Yup it frustrates me as a neurodiverse individual as well. Like our condition can operate as an explanation but it is never an excuse and the nuance of that is frequently lost on people that are pretending to be neurodiverse
Thanks for covering this. What really frustrates me is there are plenty of actual/real fatphobic experiences and systems to be critical of. Her fabricating a narrative and even worse, prescribing some form of dictation or control over how others in the world exist, communicate, etc is so toxic and such a detriment to real combating of fatphobia in our culture. And like you mention, she is doing herself no favors.
Eleanor Roosevelt said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” I try to think of that every time I think someone has slighted me in some way. She doesn’t feel good about where she is, so she’s going to take everything the wrong way. My main evidence is my own experience, but game recognizes game. Any time I’m in a bad headspace, I try to make myself feel as bad as possible, including getting mad at people for being nice to me. It hurts me to see her suffering and alienating people because she thinks she’s setting boundaries.
I had to pause 5:00 because you’ve got to be friggin kidding me. I had someone congratulating me for getting out there many many times while I was running, and I was nowhere near her size. I was nothing but grateful each time. It helped me keep going! This one’s gonna be a doozy I can tell already.
Been going to the gym for 3 years, been lifting weights for 2 years, I have been working out 7 days a week for over 6months. During one of my lift sessions I was on the lat pull down and mid set/mid pull down a middle aged women who started watching me workout, leaned over and wanted my attention. I’m hot, sweaty, focused and she goes “hey I love your headphones! My daughter would love them” I smile and say thank you and have a good work out. I then continue working out. Couple mins later she leans back over to me like she wants to say something. Listen I’m not a jerk so I humored her. She then hands me a business card and starts to spew nutrition information at me and about where I store my fat and she can save me, it’s not to late, she can teach me how to eat blah blah blah. I said thank you, finished my work out, tossed the card, told my mom and besties and moved on. 😅 Is it upsetting yeah? Am I gonna make a million story videos about it and cry online about it- no lmao I also wasn’t rude to her.
So you the second interaction is definitely crossing a boundary and she knew that. But it sounds like she was taking a risk for her MLM. But the way you handle that is the way adults handle these sorts of situations lol.
I didn't like how when she spoke about her confronting the lady on the second interaction she said "I didn't do it in a way that was mean". She doesn't get to decide how that made that woman feel.
I regularly go to the gym and work out. I LOVE when people just randomly compliment me because they saw my transition from needing to be in a wheelchair to walking and doing weights myself. They don't know my whole story, but I've been told that I am an inspiration to the people that also go to the gym.
I understand complimenting someone on a transition they have noticed over time. But if they just came up and complimented you for being an inspiration solely because you were in a wheelchair and that day was the first time they'd ever seen you, surely your response would be a bit different?
@schoo9256 I think I understand what you're trying to say and I was a little taken back by that compliment but I recognize and know that most people, especially fitness people that seem to just do it for fun are being nice. Hell, I'm almost always nice to strangers and I don't know squat about them
Instagram has an archive feature that stores all of your past stories, so that way you can re view them or choose to repost them again. They don’t get deleted, they just aren’t public anymore.
Boundaries are NOT pushing others to behave differently for your sake. Boundaries are about how we choose to handle certain events, such as removing ourselves from a situation or not engaging with what is offensive, and letting other people make their own choices whether they're aware of the boundary or not. Telling people off may be warranted sometimes, but that wasn't a "boundary" Anna! IF it happened then it was really just a dick move 😅
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist I think it could be...certainly by Anna's definition -- being "so petty" and "a bad b***" to a compliment-giver seems like more of a violation than giving a compliment. 😂
How dare the peasants speak to her. I suspect if the woman did just smile at her, Anna would assume the woman was mocking her, and it was dehumanizing not to say good job. Nothing short of adulation and groveling is acceptable. She doesn't want "good job", She's only happy with compliments that tell her that she's amazing. (Also, how dare anyone disagree with her ) She acknowledges the lady probably meant well, and night not know her, and then goes on to expect this woman to know whst sort of royalty Anna is. Also, she sure gets a lot of information from a stranger saying good job. How does she know what the woman was thinking? Shes projecting her insecurities hard. Is sad because it means that's how she herself feels. Also I wonder if she's replayed the interaction in her head so many times it's how she now remembers ot.
@tinybluedancer8 they're so fixated on all these negative beliefs snd reading people's minds, it must be an exhausting way to live. I understand the feeling of " how can i feel so bady about this and other people not see it? " (Been there, done that, still visit sometimes). Its a tough mindset to get out of. Especially when the people you look up to are confirming your insecurities and encouraging the projection. It's genuinely sad.
Seriously. I'm a walker, not a runner - but trails, hiking paths, and the industrial park streets where I walk at lunch. Occasionally we regulars might say hello., mostly we wave - we are trying to exercise. Oh sure, once or twice if it's a gorgeous day or when winter finally starts to go away we might holler something to one another like "what a great day". That's it. I've been fitness walking for some 40 years. Just saying.
I do suddenly remember one time when my daughter was younger and we used to climb a lot of small hills. She would lope ahead and I would be ambling after her panting away ... a young couple saw me at the halfway point resting a bit and offered to help me down. I thought it was sweet! I didn't feel mad or embarrassed at all. My daughter on the other hand was busting a gut laughing at me from the top of the hill lol.
The woman that complimented her was probably an actual regular and did what runners do, which is hype each other up, when the regular didn't recognize *her*. Anna was the weird 'new girl' and acted incredibly rude and weird.
YAS! Logged off work again to find the ONE AND ONLY YT channel I am a member of has posted again! And I also agree about the Instagram stories. I see actual celebrities (and I guess peasants like myself) use that feature as a place to post controversial subjects they might be passionate about (politics for example) but they don't necessarily want to have a large reach to piss off their "mass public fans" who might not agree with their views. Of course they're never gone completely which they all know, but, the reach is small, and they accomplished their goal of venting or just getting to say their peace about a topic. I LOVE that phrase internal monologue. This describes it perfectly because I know I do get stuck in my own head re-thinking "dang I wish I had said xxxx". She's definitely a liar, I seriously doubt this happened. The odds of "running" into the same person here is ridiculously small. Like there are over 2 million people in metro Austin. I know where she lives just from the videos she's posted and THINK I know where she was running. NO WAY in Hell this happened. LOL Just no way!
There's plenty of comments throughout her social media from people who have literally seen her a airports or standing in line in places and these people all say the same thing, when they smiled or said hello to Anna, she gave them a look of pure disgust before turning around and ignoring them. These people followed her on social media and she wouldn't even give them the time of day.
I have ADHD, mostly inattentive, diagnosed at 13, I have a younger relative with severe ADHD, mostly hyperactive diagnosed at age 3. As an adult they still need supervision to function in daily life. One of the reasons I was diagnosed was her diagnoses even though she was/is so severe she couldn’t be in mainstream school and her family needed respite care(qualified people who help in the home so the family can rest from dealing with the disabled person). I see nothing that Anna has ever shown us that suggests ADHD. I read and watch all professional information on ADHD that I can find and try to keep up to date with all research and new information. I think Anna is just jumping on a trend for attention and more so an excuse she can use for her bad behaviour. I lose my temper a lot bc of ADHD but I am always remorseful and I have several coping strategies in place so I don’t hurt myself, others, break things, say angry things. Anna is never remorseful for her outbursts or frustrations instead she actually tries to justify them!! Any medical issue anyone has is not a joke or an excuse that “healthy” people should pretend to have so they can behave badly.
As someone who has ADHD and autism, I offer you some helpful advice: don’t assume everyone has the same experiences you or others you know do. Every neurodivergent person is different. You know this, right? If she is neurodivergent, she didn’t get a diagnosis like you or your family member did at an early age. She didn’t have a chance to get support, identify her needs, or ask for accommodations like you may have. She hasn’t had the chance to have others acknowledge who she is like you did. In that way, you may be luckier than she is. She likely developed masking strategies that helped her to feel safe in a world that wasn’t accepting. How can you not offer her the same grace you offer yourself? How does your diagnosis provide you with the competency to diagnose others? You can choose to be kind or not. Consider how you feel when people say you are lying about your neurodivergence. I know it feels really bad for me.
Omg! Thank you for the commentary about eye contact and lying. When I'm in my therapy sessions, I am always 100% honest, even if it makes me look bad. But I feel REALLY uncomfortable making eye contact. I try to make eye contact because I know I'm telling the truth. But I feel so uncomfortable with intense eye contact. When people think in looking in their eyes, I'm usually looking at a point on their forehead or between their eyes. 😂
Just finished TCD's video on this and. . . I feel like I'm losing my mind???? How can someone be so out of touch with reality of what's like. . . normal human behaviour and what is not? How can she be SURPRISED people are finding her behaviour weird and inappropriate?
Anna is like a mixture of April Lauren and Amberlynn Reid. And that lady was being polite its normal for people be like hey when passing. Bikers have their hand signal to say hi
I used to follow Glitter and I really looked up to her, this entire situation is so weird and I really doubt it. I give and get encouragement when I’m outside exercising. I honestly doubt these exchanges went as Anna described
You’re spot on when you say this type of behaviour causes people to not want to interact with strangers. Words of encouragement have been misconstrued into a personal attack.
The more Anna goes into this story, the more I call bollocks! This story just gets more and more farfetched the more she tries to convince everyone with her facial expressions and hand gestures.📱🎥
7:01 - NO! This is a running commentary so make of it what you will but oh noooooo, this is either fake af or it’s gonna make her look super bad. 38:09 - Turns out both things are true!! I’m reminded of that saying “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” And Anna, imho, always feels inferior. No matter what she says, this remains my belief. She’s desperately insecure and I think one of the only ways she feels better about herself is to put other people down. She’s just insufferable.
Translation: "My first, genuine story didn't get the reaction I expected, so here's my new, Director's Cut version. If it still doesn't get the reaction I want, I'll make another one in which the woman on the trail calls me a fat pig."
I don't think the first interaction happened because I don't think she hits the trail without making content out of it, period, and she's been putting ramping up her bids for sympathy across her content. Whether it's related to an intentional appeal to the fat acceptance crowd, or just to fire up her followers, I have no idea.
I have ADHD and I have a few thoughts about Anna saying she has it. On the one hand, as soon as it was mentioned i thought THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH. Her generally scattered focus, her periods of hyperfocus (like where she did that entire hallmark christmas movie lookbook idea at the last minute and made it happen with some pretty dang high production values in like a weekend) and holy crap, her rejection sensitivity is off the charts. 90% of us have RS and it makes several kinds of ordinary interactions very painful including receiving gentle run of the mill critique. (which is probably part of why I defended her so comprehensively in my comments on your last video). However, I don't believe SHE seriously believes she has it. She is just using it the way people use OCD to describe their need to have a clean house, and that bugs me. Then again, if all those symptoms are truly what she's experiencing, it makes sense in a weird way to describe it AS adhd regardless of whether she has it. Undiagnosed unaware people are in a weird spot there, they still think they're neurotypical but have this special bridge of understanding to the ND world 😂 i lived like that for a long time 😅. I see you've already acknowledged a comment explaining that ND isn't just for autism so I'm going off your understanding that is the case. What will bother me most is if she does get diagnosed with it and will use "well i thought i had ADHD and i was right, therefore all these other potential diagnoses ive been collecting are probably right too". And she's going to, as you said, use all of it as a shield. And I defended her reaction to the original encounter on the previous video, and I still believe it happened. I do not believe this second interaction happened at all and much of my sympathy is gone for her regarding the first interaction, potential rejection sensitivity or not. You can have reasonable expectations of politeness when strangers interact with you but you can't dictate that they not interact with you at all. Girl is delulu and trying to cope by being a control freak (which is not an ADHD specific trait lol). And if that second section did only happen in her head, how sad is that. She's not even a winner in her own head. What a wild ride.
I love watching body language videos. I got so excited when you mentioned you watch that kind of stuff. the Behavior Panel is my favorite channel on it. But they do mostly serial killers and casey anthony etc. If you have ones that focus on interrogations that you recommend id love to know. 😊 But man! Good stuff.
Your end song brings me a lot of joy lol and it lives rent free in my head since you started it 😂 So I have audhd and I just don’t see adhd in Anna and like you said everyone presents differently and she could be high masking but I have never heard here bring up in the past that she was neurodivergent, where are her organized piles of doom? Her Graveyard of hobbies?… I don’t know I just don’t see it… I too believe she’s been sucked into the side of TikTok that makes ASD and ADHD look silly and fun and that’s where she’s most likely gained her new vocabulary…
I love your Anna videos. As you said she’s entertaining and I love when people call her out and try and figure out her game. Because it’s all a game to Anna. She puts herself out there but is so smug that she doesn’t realize there are people who see right through her. I do and I have for months now. I’ve caught her being a hypocrite and a liar many times. I think the biggest farce was when she did the Q&A video and laughingly, almost to the point of hysteria, denied she had a drinking problem. Why she hardly had a drink in the past 10 years. I have watched a lot of her videos and I knew where to look and I found at least 12 videos where she was drunk. In the last 6 years. What’s the saying - you don’t have to worry about lying if you always tell the truth. ☎️
it's like they think that adhd or whatever they have going on is an excuse for their actions, but the thing that they don't realize is that no matter your mental illness, your actions are your responsibility. I also have a collection of "popular" diagnoses, but mine are real, and also my actions are mine and are decisions made by me. yes, my adhd and brain injury make my impulse control not great and my emotional regulation is a conscious effort constantly; but my actions are mine. mental illness is not your fault, but it is your responsibility. -marcus parks
Yup, I believe she invented the second interaction. What’s very puzzling to me is why invent a story where you make yourself look like such a silly potato monkey? Certainly when I invent stories I make myself a super fabulous delightful and witty angel sort of a person🤭 Happy Friday Tiny Blue.
I love when you figure out someone’s “tells.” My neighbor is a pathological liar and scratches his face and rubs the back of his neck when he’s mid-lah.
Tonight a neighbor said "good to see you walking" and it made me feel great! I was dying at the timing. I know my smile and "thank you" were INCREDIBLY fatphobic... 😂
It includes all neurodevelopmental conditions, so Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia etc. There is some debate as to whether mental illnesses like OCD, bipolar, Schizophrenia also count as neurodivergence or not.
The user can save 24 hr stories on their profile. Anna seem to have a many saved. They are circle icons between profile info and square shaped posts. Im not sure if she saving herself venting.
It's really the fact that Anna knows the rationale for the comment. She could easily just move on. And she probably doesn't cause she knows that people don't see tjr full context of the reels or whatever. Im not sure if she is aware that followers will start saving her content. Down the line she will become like the other members of gorlworld.
I dont get her issue here......she lives her life on Social Media and puts emphasis on her "health and fitness" journey. Why cant she just nod smile and move on in a situation like this, why does it have to be drama and insults and overstepping boundaries. She is the most insecure person Ive ever seen
If Anna were just doing her thing - whatever that thing is this week (fitspo, plus size positivity, cooking queen, fashion reviews, travel, so on) but was not lying and/or constantly changing her stories and also was just pleasant rather than snarky, she would be getting positive attention, not negative.
"Deceptive Zone" Lol, you should be a politician. It was a great video with great analysis. IMO I don't think she is getting the accolades she got early on and that people are critiquing the lack of weight loss with ALL the running, workouts, by being on a weight loss drug AND her lack of sincerity. At this point it might be easier to name the problems Anna doesn't have.
Amber went through a stage like this too, when she started realising people weren’t buying her cute little act and all the mismatching and fanciful stories. It’s interesting how people respond when their long-practiced, once effective tactics stop working.
@@creatrixZBD NPD comments have been SO overdone but being extremely defensive is typical narcissist behavior when the mask slips...and it ALWAYS slips! That's when they begin backpedaling in a feeble attempt to hide their true selves.
@23:10 😂 I'm one of those freaks that genuinely loves running. The pain of it is very liberating - I don't expect that to make sense, but basically you're SO in your body, SO in the moment, your mind is perfectly calm. As an Autistic person that's a deeply freeing feeling. I recently gave up long-distance trail running to focus on bodybuilding, my last long run was October 2023. And sometimes I miss it so bad I just have to go do an easy mile or two just to scratch that itch
I’ve been following Anna for many years. I enjoy her clothing hauls. Seven ish years ago I thought for her weight she had a nice waistline. I could see her substantial weight gain as the years have passed. Also a couple of years ago I asked in her comments if she ever interacts with subscribers. She doesn’t.
@TinyBlue Dancer Have you seen the TV series "Lie to Me" (with Tim Roth)? I think it's really cool as they go into detail on reading facial expressions for all sorts of emotions. If you have seen it, what did you think?
I think I was "socialized" in the North..(& Midwest) later in my life (27+) that's how one does things in your neighborhood especially if your so far out in the boonies you collectively decide to pay for the snow plough services on your road that only 5 of the 10 of you need.
Ok this story could be interpreted as a me comparing my woes I swear I’m not and I tie it up at the end BUT… Over a decade ago I suffered a traumatic brain injury after relearning to walk feed myself and do all the things no one thought I would do, I still have a bit of slurred speech but the biggest impact is I cannot recognize faces I could meet you 1000 times see you every single day of my life and unless I hear your voice I cannot recognize you. So I often have to explain that I’m not drunk or high and to please not be offended if you wave at me across a room and I don’t wave back because most of the time I assume they are waving at someone else and that I won’t remember you until I hear you speak. Is it an uncomfortable conversation every single time? Yep pretty much but it’s forced me to communicate and learn that people cannot possibly know what’s going on inside my brain and who would want to be around me if I refused to explain and just snapped at people for NOT knowing how MY BRAIN Works jeez! Anna would be one of those people that would talk to me and then turn around and tell someone She Said I was not Memorable does she even know who I am. I also believe she is fabricating this story and man I just don’t get it. Life is hard enough and I’m sure there are real interactions every single day that actually could be defined as fatphobic. All these Gorls, Amber, Chantal, Anna just have such a narrow view on life and there are videos that just make me sad for them sometimes. 🤷🏻♀️
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist the best part is I remember voices and how people treat me. So if you’re a jerk I may not remember your face but boy will I remember your voice. I’ve had a few people think that just because their faces are out of sight out of mind that I forget everything! I’m just petty enough to let some of them believe it!
I recently read a romance in which the heroine had prosopagnia - her life sounded incredibly difficult but in the end she defeated the bad guy exactly because she remembered his smell, when he believed she'd never know him again - just the way you described. Interesting to hear how accurate that story was! And happy to hear you sound like you're doing well. I just have a rubbish memory and no excuses for it, but I do tell people I've just met that they should wave first if they see me again or I won't know them. I've accidentally blanked an embarrassing number of acquaintances. :-(
Thanks for doing this react! 🤙 I haven't watched yet but noticed a comment saying you reveal the lying tell you identified....before I watch I want to take a stab to see if my guess is at al close, because this is something I've noticed and it creeps me out...sloppily described as I have no education in body language, what I've noticed is: Looking away from the camera as she starts the lie, then swings her head dramatically toward the camera & looking into it with bulging eyes/raised eyebrows hile showing teeth as she says the lie emphatically and finishes by closing her lips tight. Her head stiffens along with the crazy eyes in a way I can't articulate. Nostrils flare if rage is present. Time to see if I'm embarrassingly wrong about what you've spotted haha.
No I think you are nailing it. Like most people she's got more than one tell. But yeah that does seem to be her pattern. And that flash of anger I think is her challenging you to not believe her. I think she thinks it makes it seem more authentic when in reality it's just awkward.
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist "challenging you to not believe her" - that sent serious chills down my spine when I read it...that is EXACTLY what I see now that you pointed it out. As with the pattern being an attempt to seem authentic...that adds to the creepiness all the more haha. Thank you for the reply I'm surprised I was picking up on the right stuff!
I remember Anna discussing therapy in order to shill for an online therapy app. It's just trendy to self diagnose yourself with disorders because it makes you quirky.(as opposed to annoying which Anna is). Thanks for covering Anna, I enjoy your takes!.
Or it’s possible that adults have been neurodivergent without diagnosis this whole time because systems did not exist for diagnosis when they were kids. I’m 48 and was diagnosed with Autism and ADHD this past year. If you think this makes me “special” so I can get all the “attention” you don’t understand the shame and trauma that comes with undiagnosed neurodivergence. You don’t understand how neurodivergent people are more likely to be abused by those they trust. You don’t understand how neurodivergent people are more likely to be victims if a crime. You don’t understand the pain of having to mask to feel safe in everyday life. These are not things I’ve been “lucky” to experience because I so desperately want to be “special.” Late diagnosed people with all sorts of conditions exist… the shame people put on them for not figuring it out earlier doesn’t change that.
She also cried when the Chef said her tarts were terrible. -Didn't she say the first encounter on the trail was "last week" but you keep saying it was yesterday. Did she just post it yesterday, because she said it'd just happened in the video, so it's weird she'd wait to upload it.
I watched the cynical dudes coverage of its and his must have been 24 hours before I saw it at least. My reaction to his video came out two days later? So it is possible that it was last week however It's also possible it was only 3 to 4 days ago as of today. Which might have made it last week?
Also, being a spoiled brat does not make one neurodivergent. Gawd it makes me so mad that she even tries to claim that.
As an ND person I don’t see either how that has any bearing in the saga. Even IF this was a case of rejection sensitivity, my ND crowd’s idea would never be “she doesn’t know me”.
What kind of neurodivergent is she, does she have ADHD? It certainly can affect how people react to things and other people, but it's not an excuse for treating other people badly, that's the difference.
@@powderandpaint14 Ana recently claimed that she has ADHD, and conveniently mentioned a product that helps her cope with it. I think she’s lying because for all the years that she’s been on TH-cam she’s never mentioned or eluded to it.
@@tiahnarodriguez3809I mean it is definitely a possibility, we aren’t her doctors so we can’t effectively assess it. But her lack of executive function, and impulsivity means that’s a possibility. But I think a large chunk of gorlworld pretend like they are ND because it sounds good to them.
@@Chuckakhan Yes, but my comment was more so about how Anna will claim she has something just to push a product. It’s possible she has ADHD, but with the way Anna is, she more than likely would have said she has ADHD much earlier than she did even without a proper assessment, so that’s why I think she said that just to sell a product. I personally think the way she acts is due to her being drunk cuz she looks hammered in a lot of her videos, but who really knows.
I feel like 'neurodivergent' is the new "I have OCD because i like a clean kitchen"
I mean it was under diagnosed, but also the diagnostic criteria for most conditions in the DSM V is obscenely vague.
what is it with everyone claiming just being awkward and shy as being neurodivergent? Im super weird and awkward because i have low self esteem and feel inadequate at all times has nothing to do with being neurodivergent. some people just need to work on social skills
Exactly! Ugh I hate the diluting of ADHD and ND diagnoses! It hurts those who actually do suffer from them because nobody believes them or thinks they are trying to get attention or special treatment.
“super weird and awkward” is not something my nd folks would ever say to describe themselves either. They usually describe what their issues are in social contexts.
This comment and replies are incorrect. I’m autistic and have ADHD and I say I’m awkward all the time. It’s a way for me to joke about the challenges I experience in everyday interactions. Nobody has the right to determine if someone else’s lived experience is valid. Who bestowed upon you guys the power to do that? It seems you guys might be hurt if someone else discussing their experience makes you react so aggressively. This might be something to look into for your own happiness.
@@theweyrd This isn’t true at all. Plenty of people who are neurodivergent describe themselves as weird, awkward, etc. No need to lie.
@@yucabacho Pretty much, Full family of diagnosed ND people two parents, two kids, and we fly our weird and awkward flags high. Is it possible the poster above is actually meeting more ND people who aren't hiding in the closet? I mean, you used to never see gay people in the 60s, obviously all these people are pretending to be gay! (Joking)
I’m surprised she didn’t add an “And the crowd cheered!” Lol
Everyone clapped.
I commented something similar on Kayla Shaye’s video about this earlier today 😂 I’m sure the trail clapped after she finished chastising that evil encouraging woman
🤣🤣
I love Kayla Shaye. I'll have to check her out to see what she has to say about this.
With the slow claps that builds up to a roar like old 90’s-2000’s movies 😄
Anna sees herself as a size xxl fit runner. This women forces Anna to live in reality.
now she’s exaggerating what the woman said the first time around. she didn’t say any of that in her original post. she’s making it up because she caught grief for being a psycho over a compliment.
100%
If that had happened she would have 100% told us the first time. Like imagine someone actually making fatphobic comments to her and her not making content out of it immediately
I once read that it's none of our business what someone thinks of us. Anna needs to heed this advice.
Anna also cried about the whole happiness retreat thing, right? At least once.
Also, there is an epidemic. A pandemic. Of people misunderstanding the meaning of boundaries. Boundaries are not a way to control what other people do. It’s how you define what *you* do. For example, you can’t make strangers do what you want on the trail. What you can do is decide that if someone says something you don’t like, you walk away instead of humoring them. You can’t set rules for OTHER PEOPLE. You can say, “If you continue to do X, I will disengage or not hang out with you etc.” You can’t say, “you are not allowed to do X.”
THIS. SO. MUCH.
Yes. She cried at the chef and the table. I think she cried at yoga too but that was happy crying?
Yes 🙌
That was beautiful fr 😭
Very true. A boundary is a line around you not a cage around someone else
Imagine if she goes to a marathon or Tough Mudder where people are constantly giving words of encouragement and support. Is she going to freak out on a hapless volunteer offering water? “How dare you assume I’m thirsty?! …my body can hold 40lbs of water…respect my boundaries!”
lol, I'd love to see her at something like a tough Mudder. She'd be that person who melts down halfway through and then blames the event not her own self.
I totally thought this the other day. She would have an absolute meltdown if she ever did an actual event, where we all yell “GOOD JOB, RUNNER” like unhinged banshees.
The very first trail half I did (completely under trained, no less), I found myself completely falling apart and dying on the second loop. An elderly gentleman, prolly 70+, caught up to me at some point on the trail and said, “I’ve seen you run this entire race, you’re such an inspiration!”😂🫠 He was very sincere, and in the moment, it was actually very sweet. The community and energy actually kept me coming back to trail running. Five years later, I ran my first 50 miler (albeit slowly😂)
😅😅😅
@@TinyBlueAnthropologistI genuinely don’t think the race administrators would let someone like Anna run the tough mudder not that it wouldn’t hilarious
Or an iron man, a triathalon, pentathalon or decathalon.
Anna is such a ball of insecurity underneath all the happy shiny positivity. That's why I have trouble with her - she comes off as so disingenuous. If she's struggling feeling confident as a plus size woman doing physical things, then she needs to be honest about it rather than projecting it on the people she comes in contact with. 'Good job getting out there' isn't insulting. I can see how it inadvertently threw her off, but the problem isn't the woman (who did nothing wrong), but how Anna sees herself. She wants to be seen as the fit, strong, inspirational fitness guru, but she's not really. She's a beginner runner (which is fine - so am I, we all have to start somewhere), but that woman reminded her that the image she tries to project isn't reality.
I wish Anna would admit to being a beginner runner. No runner believes that Anna actually runs several miles per session. I’d like to follow her on Strava and genuinely cheer on her eventual progress. But her make-believe land is getting tiresome.
Exactly, if she could lean into the positivity than runners have, she would be good. 99% of the time, folks are not concerned about you, they are partaking in the good vibes. It's not as deep as she makes it. As someone who can have an overactive inner monologue, I know to just shut up and say thank you.
@@Santiago-in1xfshe is a huge woman running.
It is a scene and let’s just admit it
I hate that she appropriates LGBTQ rhetoric as a defense for being obese. Obesity is not sexuality.
I walk in town almost every day. I smile at folks, talk to others sometimes, give a fist bump if I think it's warranted. It's definitely part of the culture. Anna is just NOT a nice person.
It’s just part of being a human being living in a community of other human beings. Interactions happen, sometimes even regularly, especially in exercise areas!
Lol who woulda thunk it?
I think a lotta people need to learn not to assume malice when it could just be ignorance.
i wish anna would stop claiming to run. what she does it not running. she can barely walk. she waddles.
It's great she's getting out there but I agree with the many people who have said that she's not doing it for as long or as many times as she says she does.
@@dt3802i suppose her joints would have given up already if she did.
I was thinking that. Why on God's green earth is someone that weighs at much as she does trying to run? Literally, no professional trainer or doctor would suggest that. She's far more likely to get injured and then be completely immobile.
Builds momentum is the way I would describe it. You heard it here first she will discover the secret of perpetual motion.
I live in Nebraska and am a major introvert. I love walking and biking on the trails. We all nod, smile, or say hi to each other. I like to joke that that's all it takes for me to get my social fix for the day 😄
I stumbled onto G&L a few months ago, & while I enjoy her clothing hauls, I sussed out her defensive, angry personality immediately. She is very unhappy but trying to make the world - & more importantly, herself - believe she is happy-go-lucky. I would not want to meet her.
I low key think maybe her taking Wegovy is effecting her mental health. Her behavior has been so much worse since she has bee on it and she is super reactive.
From the internet
"Does Wegovy cause mood changes?
Wegovy has also been found to make some people agitated, irritable, and they may even experience irregular mood changes. It may also cause some people to become depressed or have suicidal thoughts."
Interesting. I mean it is theoretically messing with your gut microbe and that has been shown to cause mood swings as well. I don't know if she's still on the wegov though. So anything is possible.
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist CelinaSpookyBoo (I think that’s how you spell it?) posted a video a while back about how Ozempic really messed with her mood/mental health.
@@TextbookCommitteei was just about to mention Celina!! She became suicidal after taking it.
Of all things that never happened….these interactions never happened the most
27:49 lol who’s having whole conversations like this on a running trail. If you’re running on a trail you’re out of breath and wearing headphones. “Hey good job keep going!” As they jog by I believe, but that second story is too many words lol
I'm the mom to two autistic kids and two more who have ADHD. I really hate how being neurodivergent has become an excuse for bad behavior. I know that every ND person is different but in my experience my children are devastated (and internalize it) when they have an awkward encounter or misunderstand an interaction. They don't gleefully retell it.
this!!!!
100% this. I had a positive interaction in a meeting yesterday where I got excited and felt like I overshared, and I almost let it ruin my day. If I acted the way Anna did, I’d delete every social media account I had and disappear.
Also, Anna’s whole vibe now makes me sad. When I discovered Anna years ago, it was just when she was beginning to get recognition with her dancing. I was at a terrible place in my life, and she made me happy. It helped me seek out dance fitness. Now that I’m in a much better mental space and have been working on my fitness and dancing, I feel bad that she can’t get out of her own way. Everyone has the right to express themselves and be authentic, but at some point she has to acknowledge her part in her life and how people react to her.
As an autistic and ADHD adult who just recently was diagnosed, I have to call you out. Adults who are neurodivergent generally have to mask to make it in life. That masking comes in many forms that you might not understand. Some people mask with substance abuse. Some people mask by being a “tough guy.” Everyone is different. I masked with “bad” behavior because it was easier for me to deal with that than accept the shame of being different. Your experience with an autistic kid, who is able to live in a world where his autism is accepted and acknowledged is WAY different than a grown adult who has had to develop masking strategies all their lives to feel safe. Honor your kids by honoring that every neurodivergent experience is different. Like they say: you meet one neurodivergent person, you’ve met one neurodivergent person.
@@yucabacho 4 of my 5 kids are neurodivergent. Out of those 4, three are adults (27-32). Out of those 4, 2 are AuADHD. Out of those 2, 1 is a woman. I have not been officially diagnosed as autistic but I suspect I am. (My 4 older kids are from my first marriage and my youngest is with my current husband. Neither set of inlaws have a history of ND so it's highly likely it's from my side of the family.)
I was officially diagnosed with ADHD three years ago. My experience is just that, my experience but it also reflects my experience as a parent who is ND with both a young child who is ND as well as adult ND kids, the mom of black kids( who are often labeled as 'bad' instead of autistic) and a daughter whose ADHD and autism presented itself in very different ways than her brothers.
I know what masking is and how it works. I'm a 50 year old black woman raising black autistic kids one of whom is a boy who will be a (large...dad is 6'3 240 lbs) black man in the US. I'm VERY familiar with masking and what it takes to get thru life. I also recognize ND people are not a monolith.
I'm speaking about Anna specifically and what she's chosen to show us on the internet and the current trend of people, specifically white women, using being neurodivergent as an excuse or a way to deflect from their bad behavior when called out on it, which is what Anna did. This one instance in the context of ALL of her internet behavior seems disingenuous and not a result of any kind of ND to ME.
Yup it frustrates me as a neurodiverse individual as well. Like our condition can operate as an explanation but it is never an excuse and the nuance of that is frequently lost on people that are pretending to be neurodiverse
Thanks for covering this. What really frustrates me is there are plenty of actual/real fatphobic experiences and systems to be critical of. Her fabricating a narrative and even worse, prescribing some form of dictation or control over how others in the world exist, communicate, etc is so toxic and such a detriment to real combating of fatphobia in our culture. And like you mention, she is doing herself no favors.
Eleanor Roosevelt said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” I try to think of that every time I think someone has slighted me in some way. She doesn’t feel good about where she is, so she’s going to take everything the wrong way. My main evidence is my own experience, but game recognizes game. Any time I’m in a bad headspace, I try to make myself feel as bad as possible, including getting mad at people for being nice to me. It hurts me to see her suffering and alienating people because she thinks she’s setting boundaries.
I had to pause 5:00 because you’ve got to be friggin kidding me. I had someone congratulating me for getting out there many many times while I was running, and I was nowhere near her size. I was nothing but grateful each time. It helped me keep going! This one’s gonna be a doozy I can tell already.
It keep going too lol. You should react to this live one time.
Been going to the gym for 3 years, been lifting weights for 2 years, I have been working out 7 days a week for over 6months. During one of my lift sessions I was on the lat pull down and mid set/mid pull down a middle aged women who started watching me workout, leaned over and wanted my attention. I’m hot, sweaty, focused and she goes “hey I love your headphones! My daughter would love them” I smile and say thank you and have a good work out.
I then continue working out.
Couple mins later she leans back over to me like she wants to say something.
Listen I’m not a jerk so I humored her.
She then hands me a business card and starts to spew nutrition information at me and about where I store my fat and she can save me, it’s not to late, she can teach me how to eat blah blah blah.
I said thank you, finished my work out, tossed the card, told my mom and besties and moved on. 😅
Is it upsetting yeah? Am I gonna make a million story videos about it and cry online about it- no lmao I also wasn’t rude to her.
So you the second interaction is definitely crossing a boundary and she knew that. But it sounds like she was taking a risk for her MLM. But the way you handle that is the way adults handle these sorts of situations lol.
I didn't like how when she spoke about her confronting the lady on the second interaction she said "I didn't do it in a way that was mean". She doesn't get to decide how that made that woman feel.
Doesn't that argument also mean that that lady doesn't get to decide how Anna feels about her original comment?
Anna's already made that comment we're turning her argument back around on her.
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist ohhhhhh *facepalm*
I regularly go to the gym and work out. I LOVE when people just randomly compliment me because they saw my transition from needing to be in a wheelchair to walking and doing weights myself. They don't know my whole story, but I've been told that I am an inspiration to the people that also go to the gym.
I understand complimenting someone on a transition they have noticed over time. But if they just came up and complimented you for being an inspiration solely because you were in a wheelchair and that day was the first time they'd ever seen you, surely your response would be a bit different?
@schoo9256 I think I understand what you're trying to say and I was a little taken back by that compliment but I recognize and know that most people, especially fitness people that seem to just do it for fun are being nice. Hell, I'm almost always nice to strangers and I don't know squat about them
@@Sam-rn9di fair enough
Instagram has an archive feature that stores all of your past stories, so that way you can re view them or choose to repost them again. They don’t get deleted, they just aren’t public anymore.
Interesting
Boundaries are NOT pushing others to behave differently for your sake. Boundaries are about how we choose to handle certain events, such as removing ourselves from a situation or not engaging with what is offensive, and letting other people make their own choices whether they're aware of the boundary or not. Telling people off may be warranted sometimes, but that wasn't a "boundary" Anna! IF it happened then it was really just a dick move 😅
Also wouldn't Anna verbally attacking this woman be considered an abuse of the other woman's boundaries as well? Just thinking out loud...
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist I think it could be...certainly by Anna's definition -- being "so petty" and "a bad b***" to a compliment-giver seems like more of a violation than giving a compliment. 😂
How dare the peasants speak to her.
I suspect if the woman did just smile at her, Anna would assume the woman was mocking her, and it was dehumanizing not to say good job.
Nothing short of adulation and groveling is acceptable. She doesn't want "good job", She's only happy with compliments that tell her that she's amazing.
(Also, how dare anyone disagree with her )
She acknowledges the lady probably meant well, and night not know her, and then goes on to expect this woman to know whst sort of royalty Anna is.
Also, she sure gets a lot of information from a stranger saying good job. How does she know what the woman was thinking? Shes projecting her insecurities hard. Is sad because it means that's how she herself feels.
Also I wonder if she's replayed the interaction in her head so many times it's how she now remembers ot.
Manifestation
@tinybluedancer8 they're so fixated on all these negative beliefs snd reading people's minds, it must be an exhausting way to live.
I understand the feeling of " how can i feel so bady about this and other people not see it? " (Been there, done that, still visit sometimes).
Its a tough mindset to get out of. Especially when the people you look up to are confirming your insecurities and encouraging the projection. It's genuinely sad.
Anna handing out protocols like she's from the House of Windsor. Get outta here.
Anyone would remember talking to someone anna's size. saying the woman didn't remember doen't track
This level of lying is akin to that of a child saying a dog ate their homework 😂
Getting on the trail to feel her existing physical strength and find inner peace? So nothing to do with preparing for a 5K? Got it...
In terms of gorlworld, shes becoming more and more interesting
Seriously. I'm a walker, not a runner - but trails, hiking paths, and the industrial park streets where I walk at lunch. Occasionally we regulars might say hello., mostly we wave - we are trying to exercise. Oh sure, once or twice if it's a gorgeous day or when winter finally starts to go away we might holler something to one another like "what a great day". That's it. I've been fitness walking for some 40 years. Just saying.
I do suddenly remember one time when my daughter was younger and we used to climb a lot of small hills. She would lope ahead and I would be ambling after her panting away ... a young couple saw me at the halfway point resting a bit and offered to help me down. I thought it was sweet! I didn't feel mad or embarrassed at all. My daughter on the other hand was busting a gut laughing at me from the top of the hill lol.
The woman that complimented her was probably an actual regular and did what runners do, which is hype each other up, when the regular didn't recognize *her*. Anna was the weird 'new girl' and acted incredibly rude and weird.
YAS! Logged off work again to find the ONE AND ONLY YT channel I am a member of has posted again! And I also agree about the Instagram stories. I see actual celebrities (and I guess peasants like myself) use that feature as a place to post controversial subjects they might be passionate about (politics for example) but they don't necessarily want to have a large reach to piss off their "mass public fans" who might not agree with their views. Of course they're never gone completely which they all know, but, the reach is small, and they accomplished their goal of venting or just getting to say their peace about a topic. I LOVE that phrase internal monologue. This describes it perfectly because I know I do get stuck in my own head re-thinking "dang I wish I had said xxxx". She's definitely a liar, I seriously doubt this happened. The odds of "running" into the same person here is ridiculously small. Like there are over 2 million people in metro Austin. I know where she lives just from the videos she's posted and THINK I know where she was running. NO WAY in Hell this happened. LOL Just no way!
There's plenty of comments throughout her social media from people who have literally seen her a airports or standing in line in places and these people all say the same thing, when they smiled or said hello to Anna, she gave them a look of pure disgust before turning around and ignoring them. These people followed her on social media and she wouldn't even give them the time of day.
If that was true wouldn’t Anna have at least recorded the audio when confronting her? I don’t believe it either.
I have ADHD, mostly inattentive, diagnosed at 13, I have a younger relative with severe ADHD, mostly hyperactive diagnosed at age 3. As an adult they still need supervision to function in daily life. One of the reasons I was diagnosed was her diagnoses even though she was/is so severe she couldn’t be in mainstream school and her family needed respite care(qualified people who help in the home so the family can rest from dealing with the disabled person). I see nothing that Anna has ever shown us that suggests ADHD. I read and watch all professional information on ADHD that I can find and try to keep up to date with all research and new information. I think Anna is just jumping on a trend for attention and more so an excuse she can use for her bad behaviour. I lose my temper a lot bc of ADHD but I am always remorseful and I have several coping strategies in place so I don’t hurt myself, others, break things, say angry things. Anna is never remorseful for her outbursts or frustrations instead she actually tries to justify them!! Any medical issue anyone has is not a joke or an excuse that “healthy” people should pretend to have so they can behave badly.
As someone who has ADHD and autism, I offer you some helpful advice: don’t assume everyone has the same experiences you or others you know do. Every neurodivergent person is different. You know this, right? If she is neurodivergent, she didn’t get a diagnosis like you or your family member did at an early age. She didn’t have a chance to get support, identify her needs, or ask for accommodations like you may have. She hasn’t had the chance to have others acknowledge who she is like you did. In that way, you may be luckier than she is. She likely developed masking strategies that helped her to feel safe in a world that wasn’t accepting. How can you not offer her the same grace you offer yourself? How does your diagnosis provide you with the competency to diagnose others? You can choose to be kind or not. Consider how you feel when people say you are lying about your neurodivergence. I know it feels really bad for me.
Omg! Thank you for the commentary about eye contact and lying. When I'm in my therapy sessions, I am always 100% honest, even if it makes me look bad. But I feel REALLY uncomfortable making eye contact. I try to make eye contact because I know I'm telling the truth. But I feel so uncomfortable with intense eye contact. When people think in looking in their eyes, I'm usually looking at a point on their forehead or between their eyes. 😂
Just finished TCD's video on this and. . . I feel like I'm losing my mind???? How can someone be so out of touch with reality of what's like. . . normal human behaviour and what is not? How can she be SURPRISED people are finding her behaviour weird and inappropriate?
Anna is like a mixture of April Lauren and Amberlynn Reid.
And that lady was being polite its normal for people be like hey when passing.
Bikers have their hand signal to say hi
Did Anna say that she has been on that trail 100 times this yr, does she mean 2024? 😂😂 Jan and a few days in Feb
To be fair I think she's just being hyperbolic
I used to follow Glitter and I really looked up to her, this entire situation is so weird and I really doubt it. I give and get encouragement when I’m outside exercising. I honestly doubt these exchanges went as Anna described
You’re spot on when you say this type of behaviour causes people to not want to interact with strangers. Words of encouragement have been misconstrued into a personal attack.
She also cried when there wasn’t enough seats on the plane for her 🤦🏻♀️ and said she hated her body
The more Anna goes into this story, the more I call bollocks! This story just gets more and more farfetched the more she tries to convince everyone with her facial expressions and hand gestures.📱🎥
exactly
7:01 - NO! This is a running commentary so make of it what you will but oh noooooo, this is either fake af or it’s gonna make her look super bad.
38:09 - Turns out both things are true!! I’m reminded of that saying “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” And Anna, imho, always feels inferior. No matter what she says, this remains my belief. She’s desperately insecure and I think one of the only ways she feels better about herself is to put other people down. She’s just insufferable.
Oh you got the tell down pat on when she's trying to weave a narrative in her favor.
The story changing to make Anna look better is super suspicious.
Translation: "My first, genuine story didn't get the reaction I expected, so here's my new, Director's Cut version. If it still doesn't get the reaction I want, I'll make another one in which the woman on the trail calls me a fat pig."
I don't think the first interaction happened because I don't think she hits the trail without making content out of it, period, and she's been putting ramping up her bids for sympathy across her content. Whether it's related to an intentional appeal to the fat acceptance crowd, or just to fire up her followers, I have no idea.
I have ADHD and I have a few thoughts about Anna saying she has it. On the one hand, as soon as it was mentioned i thought THAT EXPLAINS SO MUCH. Her generally scattered focus, her periods of hyperfocus (like where she did that entire hallmark christmas movie lookbook idea at the last minute and made it happen with some pretty dang high production values in like a weekend) and holy crap, her rejection sensitivity is off the charts. 90% of us have RS and it makes several kinds of ordinary interactions very painful including receiving gentle run of the mill critique. (which is probably part of why I defended her so comprehensively in my comments on your last video).
However, I don't believe SHE seriously believes she has it. She is just using it the way people use OCD to describe their need to have a clean house, and that bugs me. Then again, if all those symptoms are truly what she's experiencing, it makes sense in a weird way to describe it AS adhd regardless of whether she has it. Undiagnosed unaware people are in a weird spot there, they still think they're neurotypical but have this special bridge of understanding to the ND world 😂 i lived like that for a long time 😅. I see you've already acknowledged a comment explaining that ND isn't just for autism so I'm going off your understanding that is the case.
What will bother me most is if she does get diagnosed with it and will use "well i thought i had ADHD and i was right, therefore all these other potential diagnoses ive been collecting are probably right too". And she's going to, as you said, use all of it as a shield.
And I defended her reaction to the original encounter on the previous video, and I still believe it happened. I do not believe this second interaction happened at all and much of my sympathy is gone for her regarding the first interaction, potential rejection sensitivity or not. You can have reasonable expectations of politeness when strangers interact with you but you can't dictate that they not interact with you at all. Girl is delulu and trying to cope by being a control freak (which is not an ADHD specific trait lol). And if that second section did only happen in her head, how sad is that. She's not even a winner in her own head.
What a wild ride.
ADHD can also have an effect on the way someone eats right? So her struggling so much might also make sense in that context.
@@powderandpaint14 i can't believe I forgot to mention the impulsively and addictive personality. Absolutely
I love watching body language videos. I got so excited when you mentioned you watch that kind of stuff. the Behavior Panel is my favorite channel on it. But they do mostly serial killers and casey anthony etc. If you have ones that focus on interrogations that you recommend id love to know. 😊 But man! Good stuff.
yeah if I saw someone like Anna or Amber in public it would be seared into my brain.
Can’t wait for the videos in two days time where this mystery woman turns up at Anna’s house to tell it’s good she is gets some exercise.🤣🤣
She’ll run into her at the grocery store and the woman will compliment her cart full of protein chips and fat free canned soup.
Anna needs ‘Better Help’…😂
☎️ I am convinced she is like Foodie Beauty...a fake narc.
Your end song brings me a lot of joy lol and it lives rent free in my head since you started it 😂
So I have audhd and I just don’t see adhd in Anna and like you said everyone presents differently and she could be high masking but I have never heard here bring up in the past that she was neurodivergent, where are her organized piles of doom? Her Graveyard of hobbies?… I don’t know I just don’t see it… I too believe she’s been sucked into the side of TikTok that makes ASD and ADHD look silly and fun and that’s where she’s most likely gained her new vocabulary…
I love your Anna videos. As you said she’s entertaining and I love when people call her out and try and figure out her game. Because it’s all a game to Anna. She puts herself out there but is so smug that she doesn’t realize there are people who see right through her. I do and I have for months now. I’ve caught her being a hypocrite and a liar many times. I think the biggest farce was when she did the Q&A video and laughingly, almost to the point of hysteria, denied she had a drinking problem. Why she hardly had a drink in the past 10 years. I have watched a lot of her videos and I knew where to look and I found at least 12 videos where she was drunk. In the last 6 years. What’s the saying - you don’t have to worry about lying if you always tell the truth. ☎️
it's like they think that adhd or whatever they have going on is an excuse for their actions, but the thing that they don't realize is that no matter your mental illness, your actions are your responsibility. I also have a collection of "popular" diagnoses, but mine are real, and also my actions are mine and are decisions made by me. yes, my adhd and brain injury make my impulse control not great and my emotional regulation is a conscious effort constantly; but my actions are mine.
mental illness is not your fault, but it is your responsibility. -marcus parks
I love Marcus!
I think Anna has convinced herself shes a swim suit model and not a 500 pound women
Yup, I believe she invented the second interaction. What’s very puzzling to me is why invent a story where you make yourself look like such a silly potato monkey? Certainly when I invent stories I make myself a super fabulous delightful and witty angel sort of a person🤭 Happy Friday Tiny Blue.
I love when you figure out someone’s “tells.” My neighbor is a pathological liar and scratches his face and rubs the back of his neck when he’s mid-lah.
Tonight a neighbor said "good to see you walking" and it made me feel great! I was dying at the timing. I know my smile and "thank you" were INCREDIBLY fatphobic... 😂
She's such a liar. She's just a lying liar who lies and she is not a fitness guru
Well said!
Neurodivergent is anything that isn't neurotypical, not just on the spectrum, including ADHD/ADD, BPD, bipolar disorder...
It includes all neurodevelopmental conditions, so Autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia etc. There is some debate as to whether mental illnesses like OCD, bipolar, Schizophrenia also count as neurodivergence or not.
Basically, when ppl innocently point out that her delusion is false, she is not an athelete, she melts down....
How long do you think it will be before Novo Nordisk grows tired of her antics and dumps her?
Cynical Dude has the video you're missing. It was UNHINGED.
I saw that, I plan to make a big old reaction to all of it on Monday
My kids and I randomly sing your outtro music around our house lol
Y'all are killing me
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist I will admit, our singing voices can be quite murderous...
The user can save 24 hr stories on their profile. Anna seem to have a many saved. They are circle icons between profile info and square shaped posts.
Im not sure if she saving herself venting.
It's really the fact that Anna knows the rationale for the comment. She could easily just move on. And she probably doesn't cause she knows that people don't see tjr full context of the reels or whatever. Im not sure if she is aware that followers will start saving her content. Down the line she will become like the other members of gorlworld.
I dont get her issue here......she lives her life on Social Media and puts emphasis on her "health and fitness" journey. Why cant she just nod smile and move on in a situation like this, why does it have to be drama and insults and overstepping boundaries. She is the most insecure person Ive ever seen
if this trail woman even exists, I hope to god she finds this rant and comes out with the real story of what happened 😂😂
This is Anna 100% trying to get back in the good graces of fat acceptance
If Anna were just doing her thing - whatever that thing is this week (fitspo, plus size positivity, cooking queen, fashion reviews, travel, so on) but was not lying and/or constantly changing her stories and also was just pleasant rather than snarky, she would be getting positive attention, not negative.
"Deceptive Zone" Lol, you should be a politician. It was a great video with great analysis. IMO I don't think she is getting the accolades she got early on and that people are critiquing the lack of weight loss with ALL the running, workouts, by being on a weight loss drug AND her lack of sincerity. At this point it might be easier to name the problems Anna doesn't have.
Amber went through a stage like this too, when she started realising people weren’t buying her cute little act and all the mismatching and fanciful stories.
It’s interesting how people respond when their long-practiced, once effective tactics stop working.
@@creatrixZBD NPD comments have been SO overdone but being extremely defensive is typical narcissist behavior when the mask slips...and it ALWAYS slips! That's when they begin backpedaling in a feeble attempt to hide their true selves.
@@creatrixZBD The last few shorts of Anna's have been for merching.
Excellent points one after another👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@23:10 😂 I'm one of those freaks that genuinely loves running. The pain of it is very liberating - I don't expect that to make sense, but basically you're SO in your body, SO in the moment, your mind is perfectly calm. As an Autistic person that's a deeply freeing feeling. I recently gave up long-distance trail running to focus on bodybuilding, my last long run was October 2023. And sometimes I miss it so bad I just have to go do an easy mile or two just to scratch that itch
I’ve been following Anna for many years. I enjoy her clothing hauls. Seven ish years ago I thought for her weight she had a nice waistline. I could see her substantial weight gain as the years have passed. Also a couple of years ago I asked in her comments if she ever interacts with subscribers. She doesn’t.
I don't think this happened whatsoever, but if it DID happen.. the woman was in the right.
The Cynical Dude just upload too! I have to watch you first!!😊🥳
Oh he got the scoop on the video in between. I got to react to him reacting again. It's going to be very inception
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😂 I knew it was completely fabricated
She wasn't even crying or looked like she had cried
She confabulates like a naughty child 👧
Good she’s this worrier. Fitness Queen..inside way
Preach, sister...PREACH. 💯 🎯 💯
I think she includes the idea that the woman didn’t remember her because to her, not knowing who she is or remembering her is a major transgression.
41:10 I have to agree with you. Trails here is Colorado a waive or a hi is common.😊
@TinyBlue Dancer Have you seen the TV series "Lie to Me" (with Tim Roth)? I think it's really cool as they go into detail on reading facial expressions for all sorts of emotions. If you have seen it, what did you think?
Love that show
Wait until Anna finds out that a lot of trail & ultra runners are friendly pot heads! Oh she’ll really love that! 💚
That's hilarious
She also knows people will react to it and that makes it as permanent as long as their video is up.
You just said that!🤣🤣🤣
i can't imagine how difficult tampons would be at that size
I wouldn't believe a word ole Infomercial-Anna says.
I think I was "socialized" in the North..(& Midwest) later in my life (27+) that's how one does things in your neighborhood especially if your so far out in the boonies you collectively decide to pay for the snow plough services on your road that only 5 of the 10 of you need.
Ok this story could be interpreted as a me comparing my woes I swear I’m not and I tie it up at the end BUT…
Over a decade ago I suffered a traumatic brain injury after relearning to walk feed myself and do all the things no one thought I would do, I still have a bit of slurred speech but the biggest impact is I cannot recognize faces I could meet you 1000 times see you every single day of my life and unless I hear your voice I cannot recognize you. So I often have to explain that I’m not drunk or high and to please not be offended if you wave at me across a room and I don’t wave back because most of the time I assume they are waving at someone else and that I won’t remember you until I hear you speak. Is it an uncomfortable conversation every single time? Yep pretty much but it’s forced me to communicate and learn that people cannot possibly know what’s going on inside my brain and who would want to be around me if I refused to explain and just snapped at people for NOT knowing how MY BRAIN Works jeez!
Anna would be one of those people that would talk to me and then turn around and tell someone She Said I was not Memorable does she even know who I am. I also believe she is fabricating this story and man I just don’t get it. Life is hard enough and I’m sure there are real interactions every single day that actually could be defined as fatphobic. All these Gorls, Amber, Chantal, Anna just have such a narrow view on life and there are videos that just make me sad for them sometimes.
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I'm glad you're recovering! And don't worry my face isn't that memorable anyway lol.
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist the best part is I remember voices and how people treat me. So if you’re a jerk I may not remember your face but boy will I remember your voice. I’ve had a few people think that just because their faces are out of sight out of mind that I forget everything! I’m just petty enough to let some of them believe it!
I recently read a romance in which the heroine had prosopagnia - her life sounded incredibly difficult but in the end she defeated the bad guy exactly because she remembered his smell, when he believed she'd never know him again - just the way you described.
Interesting to hear how accurate that story was! And happy to hear you sound like you're doing well.
I just have a rubbish memory and no excuses for it, but I do tell people I've just met that they should wave first if they see me again or I won't know them. I've accidentally blanked an embarrassing number of acquaintances. :-(
Thanks for doing this react! 🤙 I haven't watched yet but noticed a comment saying you reveal the lying tell you identified....before I watch I want to take a stab to see if my guess is at al close, because this is something I've noticed and it creeps me out...sloppily described as I have no education in body language, what I've noticed is:
Looking away from the camera as she starts the lie, then swings her head dramatically toward the camera & looking into it with bulging eyes/raised eyebrows hile showing teeth as she says the lie emphatically and finishes by closing her lips tight. Her head stiffens along with the crazy eyes in a way I can't articulate. Nostrils flare if rage is present. Time to see if I'm embarrassingly wrong about what you've spotted haha.
Always looking to her right while forming the lie/deception yes! (Otherwise I recognize I'm throwing in a lot of irrelevant observations)
No I think you are nailing it. Like most people she's got more than one tell. But yeah that does seem to be her pattern. And that flash of anger I think is her challenging you to not believe her. I think she thinks it makes it seem more authentic when in reality it's just awkward.
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist "challenging you to not believe her" - that sent serious chills down my spine when I read it...that is EXACTLY what I see now that you pointed it out. As with the pattern being an attempt to seem authentic...that adds to the creepiness all the more haha. Thank you for the reply I'm surprised I was picking up on the right stuff!
I remember Anna discussing therapy in order to shill for an online therapy app. It's just trendy to self diagnose yourself with disorders because it makes you quirky.(as opposed to annoying which Anna is). Thanks for covering Anna, I enjoy your takes!.
Or it’s possible that adults have been neurodivergent without diagnosis this whole time because systems did not exist for diagnosis when they were kids. I’m 48 and was diagnosed with Autism and ADHD this past year. If you think this makes me “special” so I can get all the “attention” you don’t understand the shame and trauma that comes with undiagnosed neurodivergence. You don’t understand how neurodivergent people are more likely to be abused by those they trust. You don’t understand how neurodivergent people are more likely to be victims if a crime. You don’t understand the pain of having to mask to feel safe in everyday life. These are not things I’ve been “lucky” to experience because I so desperately want to be “special.” Late diagnosed people with all sorts of conditions exist… the shame people put on them for not figuring it out earlier doesn’t change that.
She also cried when the Chef said her tarts were terrible.
-Didn't she say the first encounter on the trail was "last week" but you keep saying it was yesterday. Did she just post it yesterday, because she said it'd just happened in the video, so it's weird she'd wait to upload it.
I watched the cynical dudes coverage of its and his must have been 24 hours before I saw it at least. My reaction to his video came out two days later? So it is possible that it was last week however It's also possible it was only 3 to 4 days ago as of today. Which might have made it last week?
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist Gotcha. -I just noticed you misspelled trail as "trial" in your thumbnails lol.
Omg I misheard Gliter and Lazers as Clitorus Lazers...
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Also I'm mildly surprised TH-cam didn't flag this comment 😂
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist 🤔🤣
@@TinyBlueAnthropologist also, that would be a wild TH-cam moniker. 😏
I don't know why but immediately a dinosaur came to mind, a majestic Clitosaurous WITH LAZERS!!
@@justine8387 🦖✨️
“Excuse me maam, my Instagram followers and I think you’re fatphobic” I can’t 😂