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Originally Posted by GraceKrispy
... all my "evil" stuff was off the radar (truly, my mom is amazed at the things I did and she never knew). My dad was just... well, let's just say he had issues. He wasn't a very happy man. Oh, and I started hearing him say stuff like that when I was like 6, so it definitely wasn't a teenage thing.
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Think of emotional damage as a series of customizations and stresses to the rarefied couture garment that is the personality. Yes, parental cruelty can make our lives harder. But it can also make our imaginations more interesting, our empathy more acute and our self-expression more compulsive, original and even beautiful. There's a reason Michael Jackson identified with the Elephant Man. There's a reason Francis Bacon went on painting the same poltergeists.