BeckWhy said:
At first I got this weird feeling about him, but I supported him (I try to support everyone) and it just comes back and I'm going back on what I thought. He's a spoiled little brat. He'll probably end up engaged in some sort of violent crime or two in his life.
i've been following jupelo religiously and stumbled on disboards about a month ago trying to find more info on his site and have been reading these boards ever since. i'm not much of a disney fan, but something about his site compelled me and it's been neat reading opinions on here. i haven't felt particularly compelled to chime in until now.
i'm a child psychologist and have been in practice for almost 20 years now. doesn't mean i know exactly what is going on but i believe i have some kind of a grip on this.
saying he will engage in 'violent crime' or whatever is pretty naive and a typical knee jerk reaction to the erraticism he is exhibiting on his site. i think he is, for the most part, telling the truth. i can tell from the just heaping energy he seemed to put into the site for the 1st month that i'm sure he's capable of running 3 businesses like he claimed. i wouldn't doubt it at all that he plans on spending the 100k he claims at disney, and i don't doubt it isn't money he made himself.
the whole thing isn't too complicated in my opinion. he has a larger ego than most of us 'normal' people do. i don't doubt for one second that it takes an enormous ego to start 3 (assumed) successful businesses as a minor.
so here's what i think happened. his continuous references to 'hate email' is the major clue. he has probably been getting an avalanche of hate mail. not now but when the site was in its first format. don't any of you remember that comments section he had? i can guarantee you most of the mail was probably just people who were jealous. but people with big egos tend to also be hurt very easily, and he probably did get more than he expected. but the difference between him and most people is these big ego people channel that hurt into work and 'success'. i even think his about me page referenced something along these lines. and he is deflecting the fact that he is hurt by the emails by turning it around and saying he likes hate mail
bottom line, i would bet my life he's still at disney. and, by no longer offering the neat content he used to, it's his own little way of getting back at the people who went out of their way to criticize him. it's a way of making himself feel better.
this is all just total conjecture. but i've seen things like this before, just not in this format, since he's rather extreme since it involves lots of money at a very young age and someone who is developmentally supercharged. he's probably been to hell and back engaging in so many adult things at such a young age and he probably comes off as a little 'off' because of it. almost like an abuse victim. a stretch though, because in this case it would self inflicted which turns the tables quite a bit.
but i just had to laugh at the violence comment. i mean, god, to be honest, he's probably lying around in bed at the grand floridian on his wireless broadband chuckling at all of you and counting his millions.
i love how he goes on and on about eventually starting a charity, and you all shoot back that he's going to be 'engaged in some sort of violent crime or two'.
really! if you were him, wouldn't comments like that make you want to just forget about it all and enjoy the year without having to cater to a bunch of disney fans? and i'm sure he's a pretty bottom line minded guy to do what he claims he did, so if people are just being jerks, all that probably says to him is time to move on.
look people. i've dealt with many gifted kids before, and he screams textbook example. 'jupelo' is to this kid as richard branson is to having tea parties on the top of hot air balloons over the english countryside. they're different than most of us. and some of us interpret that as being erratic and, as one poster said, violent, since its so detached from the realities we know.
just my 2c.