Maybe she is lying to herself or it’s a feeble attempt to lie for CLL? Guru loyalty is strange.
Screenshots like this are everywhere, a lot of folks have seen it in one variation or another. CLL definitely stated she “has a degree in neuropsychology.”
I do have to chuckle at the Equine Behaviorist degree
Just for the newbs: a “houseguest” is when a new account is created for the sole purpose of defending - often vehemently - a person or product under scrutiny. I’m not saying that the person in question IS the anonymous “happy client / best buddy / completely detached onlooker” as so claimed, but often the call is coming from within the house
Best thread for houseguests is the Arabian showjumper one. Roulette ++?
Best houseguest on COTH - @kellydressage
Best actual houseguest story: predating the OG of Dressage Maestro threads was a blog whereby a steak salesman posted wildly homophobic comments from an email address linking him to said steak company. When he was called out over it, he claimed it was someone in the same area using HIS IP address. Totally unrelated, would never say things like that, thinks someone was sponging off of his internet. Literally got caught red-IP-ed and still tried to say it were “someone else”.
A story about houseguest, no connection to horse trainers
Whomp whomp whomp.
So yes. Houseguests are not well-established users (exception being a dormant user that is suddenly revived for the sole purpose of defending someone); they typically come in guns-ablazing, then disappear with a flounce.
I was a little lost on the meaning of houseguest, thank you for the explanation. Sounds like a houseguest is akin to a sock puppet or troll account?
Just curious, but what role do avocados play?
Yes, it’s basically a troll or puppet account, often times operated by someone with … reasons to have strong bias in the opposite direction from the overall consensus of the thread.
I believe the term is unique to this board, and IIRC it came about because in the first big thread were they showed up in force (the Arabian jumper one), they were alters of a particular other person who ultimately claimed that the reason the IPs matched her own was that they literal guests staying at her house that used her computer to comment on the thread.
The Pony, The Saddle, and the Guacamole
You need a glass of wine and a packet of chips to get through it, but it is worth it!
Ironic that an almost identical situation arose with an esteem steak salesman. Heck, he even called his provider to ensure that, yes, yes, the same IP addresses could be used by his whole street.
Thank you for the explanation and IDing the NOT houseguest. I’m a little on edge and worried, but, I am feeling better now. 
Yes, neuropsychology and neuroscience are totally different. My university had behavioral neuroscience as an undergraduate major, but neuropsychology is as you state. It’s not its own undergraduate major.
Let me show you a trick so you can find things in the future.
Pretty simple really, if you want to actually find things that is.
Go to the first post of the thread and across the bottom are the icons of almost all the posters.
Pick the icon of the poster whose posts you want to see. If their profile is not hidden you will get a lovely pop-up that shows you how many posts they have in the thread, you click that notification and poof, you have a list of all their posts right there to enjoy.
If their profile is private, you can use the handy dandy search option at the top of the thread, it offers ‘search this topic’ and you can type in the users name.
ok - now this is funny.
Will you be starting an Itinerate Hag trainer’s web site?
Only if it’s sooper speshul and sekrit. 
Ooh, can I get a sekrit decoder pin?
Wait, i thought you were the Hag?
Cute girl you have there! A snoot that needs booping!
Shhhhhh… I don’t want anyone looking up my PhD in Grocery-Baggery, lest I get busted.
Total aside, as someone who deals with pH in my job, capitalizing the P and lowercasing the h for PhD took 4 tries before I convinced my fingers to do it…
Doesn’t that stand for “Piled higher and Deeper?”
My phone has a new keyboard, v and I’m learning Navajo, so prediction is out the window…
I love this updated post, LOL!!!
You are my COTH hero for the day. 
Thanks for making me laugh. You rock! 
P.S. Your horse is freakin’ adorable.
Do you feel Linda Kohanov needs a Take down ? Animal communicators ? Masterson method ?
To be clear.
There is something called the professional/client or Teacher/ student or Service provider/ customer relationship. In this situation it is important that the professional remain professional no matter the provocation.
You can quietly fire a client. You can take legal action behind the scenes. Etc.
What you cannot do is descend to a level of MLM Hun crazy stuff. That includes lying about your credentials, doxxing your clients to your client base, engaging in online bullying, and bragging about your guns. Once you’ve done that even once, you’ve shown the world who you are and that you are not a professional.
This is quite separate from what you actually do, teach, or provide. Like I said upthread I had no particular problem with some online nobody giving herself a cute name and running seminars that recycle common knowledge to newbies.
But I have a problem with the behaviour that’s been documented here.
Let’s take a very different hypothetical situation. Imagine Susie is a lifelong horsewoman who qualified for the Pan Am or something in the 1990s. But repeated concussion and aging and perhaps alcohol has brought on symptoms and she is wierd and unpredictable and flips out on people. She can still ride and teach better than anyone in her area but she’s losing the plot and ranting about her demons on social media. I would give similar advice to stay clear.
I am skeptical of the whole new age psychotherapy world whether human or equine because they work by taking snippets of real experience and exaggerating them out of context for people who want instant magic to heal their problems. They are intellectually and emotionally lazy at heart. But enough people find them useful at some points in their lives. So I’m not really going to bother taking their logic apart because mostly they are not doing harm.
However teachers that use these techniques to get a grip on their students and then turn interpersonally toxic and implicate their students in the bad behaviour should be called out.
