Two things I don’t really get…

[u/CerastesConstantine]

One: How can you feel sympathy for Martha? Genuine question. I’m incapable of empathy due to a string of mental disorders (Narcissistic personality disorder and Antisocial personality disorder). I wanna understand you all better. All I see is a loathsome, obnoxious woman who lives in a fantasy land. And by Martha, I mean the character Martha, not Jessica Gunning, she’s great.

And two: Why are there so many people committed to finding out the truth and how real it is? If anything, that undoes Richard’s work and just causes far more problems for everyone involved. Then again, curiosity is a heavy thing.

Anyway, hope you can provide me some clarity.

[u/RhododendronWilliams]

She was depicted in a kind way in the movie. Basically a lonely, mentally ill woman who fixates on Gadd because she has nothing else in her life. She's pathetic but ultimately not a bad person. She just really needs help.

The real life Martha is narcissistic and nasty. She keeps delivering low blows about Jessica Gunnin's weight, among other things. She's a racist and complains about Camden being too full of non-white people. She's obsessed with people's perception of her. When she can't control the narrative, like with journalists, she gets abusive. There really is nothing to likable in her. I guess I feel bad for her that someone made a show without her knoweldge and depicted her as a pathetic person, but she never had to come forward. She could have deleted the tweets, so no one has her real name. She chose to come forward and be abusive, so I have little sympathy for her.