Posted by capricorn on November 29, 2006, at 20:54:59
In reply to Re: Cognitively speaking » capricorn, posted by Phillipa on November 29, 2006, at 20:28:02
> And look what accomplishments your parents made. Do they expect you to do the same? Love Phillipa ps can stay here.
My mother told me at the age of 8-9 i would never be as good as my father. At the same time she used to continually argue with him. If the AD breaks were periods of non arguing the tv programs were the periods of arguing.
I got very mixed messages.
I am proud of my father but he has either adopted a ostrich position over my problems ie only wants to hear good news or has been unsympathetic.I was once told by my mother
that when i was beginning to show overt problems
at the age of 16-17 she said 'i'm worried about Tim' and he replied rather flippantly 'Well of course he's going mad isn't he?'I don't know whether he did say this or my mother was playing games.
She was a heavy drinker/alcoholic for years and could be verbally nasty and occasionally
physically with it.When she found out my brother was hiv she phoned up in tears to me for over an hour and yet years later i heard from my brother that when he had told her she had called him a disgusting pervert and he deserved all he got.
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