Thread:SirHighAwesomeParty/@comment-4400695-20200219013019

Okay, so as some would like to point out, I appear to have a seemingly irrational defense towards Sammy (yes, I'll always call her that, it's just how I roll), and an irrational hatred for her sister Amy. Well, I'm done arguing with her haters, and I just want to set the record straight on why her treatment in the show, as well as hatred she gets from some people, is such a big deal to me.

I said before that I resonated with Sammy, because Amy's treatment of her brings back bad memories of when I used to be picked on by my own siblings when I was younger. Well, that's not entirely true, and my siblings and I have get along swimmingly nowadays. My favoritism towards Sammy is not of me seeing her as a goddess, as a certain NesteaCookie put it, but rather it's a more personal reason. Sidenote, this message is going to be a lengthy one.

There was once a teenage girl with a learning disability named Grace Packer, who like Sammy, got nothing but scorn and hatred from her own family member. Not by a twin, though, but by her own foster mother, that woman being Sara Packer.

Sara really hated Grace, and some of the others kids she had fostered have admitted to this. She hated Grace so much, that she wanted nothing to do with her anymore, and "wanted her to go away." Well, she decided to make her go away personally. She conspired together with a man about some sort of sick rape/murder fantasy, and came up with plans for Grace, which involved her being kept captive in the attic, for the man to sexually rape anytime he wanted. After having gotten done the first time, they left her locked in a closet in the attic, and 12 hours later, when they found out she was still alive, she was choked to death and her body was dismembered. The man who worked with Sara to do this? He was my biological father.

If you need more proof, here's an article going over Grace's life below;

https://genwhypod.com/blogs/the-generation-why-podcast-blog/the-murder-of-grace-packer-mother-and-boyfriend-sentenced

And the truth of the matter is, I originally had suspected from the start that Sara was awful, and would usually yell back at her whenever she was berating her own foster daughter. But at some point, she cried crocodile tears and my father said that Sara was just a really overstressed woman, and that Grace was a difficult child to live with. After that, I believed his words and didn't get involved anymore, so you can imagine how deceived I was, and how much of an idiot I felt like when I found out I was originally right after all about how awful Sara Packer really was.

And this it what really ties into my feelings on the cheerleader. The crocodile tears, Sammy never getting to actually tell her side, almost everyone blindly believing and siding with Amy, you can see that this brought back even worse memories than my first excuse.

Even if some may say she's not that interesting, or not that good of a character, Sammy still earned my sympathy, because I saw a bit of Grace in her; unconfident in herself, getting nothing but hatred from her own family, and I wanted things to get better for her the same way I wanted things to get better for Grace, and Amy's nonstop belittling and berating of her just serves as a reminder of two of the most loathsome people I've ever had the misfortune of knowing in real life, and how I was lied to about the real victim of a case. 