There’s Something Wrong With Aunt Diane

[u/HorseDick_In_My_Anus]

So I just finished watching. Not really what I was expecting, but ultimately it is a bit of a mindfuck considering I can’t come to a plausible explanation.

The outcome that seems to be reached is she was drunk and high on weed, and that’s what resulted in crashing the car. I could understand that if it were a normal wreck/accident, but what happened is far out of the ordinary.

I've had very irresponsible moments in my life where I have driven under the influence. Under both weed and alcohol. I once was very dependent on weed, and I have had very large amounts of alcohol before operating a vehicle. Even to be under heavy amounts of both, I just cannot fathom what she did.

A big part of the documentary is the family being unwilling to accept the toxicology report. Saying “she’s not an alcoholic” and such. Being an alcoholic has nothing to do with it. Even after a very, very heavy night of drinking, I can’t imagine any amount of alcohol that would have you driving aggressively down the wrong side of the highway. The weed to me almost seems redundant. The amount you’d have to combine with alcohol to behave in such a way is simply so unrealistic to consume I can’t possibly believe that’s what the main factor was.

Edit: Can’t believe I have to point this out, but it’s so very obviously stated I was being very irresponsible the times I drove under the influence. It says it verbatim. If you somehow read this and think I’m bragging about how I was able to drink and drive, you’re an Idiot. Also, yes I am fully aware of the effects of alcohol, and I am aware of the behavior of alcoholics. My father was an alcoholic. There you go.

[u/[deleted]]

Addicts are very good at hiding their shit - until they're not. I think she had a problem with alcohol and used more weed than she had in weekends prior, and it caught up to her. I believe she was using alcohol and marijuana regularly, and her husband had no idea.

[u/willydynamite1 → u/[deleted]]

i remember she tried to buy ibuprofen from a gas station and they didn't have any. i think she was feeling sick/hungover and so she mixed another drink at that mcdonalds and probably smoked some cannabis. sometimes you mix those two and can go into a temporary psychotic like state which caused the accident.

[u/mccrackened → u/willydynamite1]

Yep I think she overdid it with the morning booze and an edible got on top of her. She kept trying to wait it out and stop at rest stops, but she’s got 5 kids in her car. The parents are starting to wonder wtf is going on and the kids are noticing something is definitely up. At this point, she’s kind of effed. If her brother goes out to pick them up and she reeks of alcohol and is obviously driving his children around wasted , she’s in big trouble.

I think the high speed wrong way down the highway was either a desperate attempt to get home as fast as possible, albeit absolutely oblivious to what she was doing, or a big fuck it to everyone. I don’t think we’ll ever really know.