I made a new blog post. It's sorta.. serious. I mean, I guess most of my blog posts are serious, but this is almost about therapy serious.
So, you know. If you aren't up for all that seriousness you might file it away till later. But don't wait too long!
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So, you know. If you aren't up for all that seriousness you might file it away till later. But don't wait too long!
This entry was composed @Dreamwidth and can also be read at http://eriktrips.dreamwidth.org/11277.html
Feel free to comment either here or there.
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Not that any of us do anything different. But this really... After I played with the mind-mapping thing a bit and saw all these words describing unhappy things and all connected every which way and I'm suddenly much more cognizant of why Nan has said I was a psychosis waiting to happen.
I was raised by agnostics, and you remind me so much of my older brother who has been diagnosed on the aspergers/autism spectrum as an adult. (He was diagnosed after my son was diagnosed with autism.)
You've such a great mind, I'm glad you're getting to a place where you're able to correlate and would love to read about your tangled origin myth.
You are a sweetheart. I'm, um, verklempt.
My parents didn't abuse me "on purpose" but they still dished it out. Some of what they did was thought of as acceptable child rearing at the time. Which makes it as though most of us were abused by our entire culture. Hardly any comfort in that.
Abused by our entire culture..... you know, I think that also, more and more. If one never fit into the traditional box of future-consumer-to-be as a child, able to fit neatly into some cultural role, (male/female especially), one was just a target. Part of why I enjoy watching the series 'Mad Men' with my son (21); he can't quite believe things were like that back then, and it does show how far we have come, even tho there's still lots more to go.
I'm sort of working on a thesis--more in my head than on paper--about the violence with which Euro-American culture has met the rest of the world in the form of colonialism and even itself in the form of culturally acceptable child abuse. It's not necessarily that we are the only violent culture, but our attempt to dominate the rest of the world makes it especially imperative that we be critiqued, I think.
I'll have to find some "Mad Men" episodes on hulu or wherever. It sounds like it could be interesting or even useful.
Pardon if I've asked you before, but have you ever read any of the Alice Miller books? She's a German psychotherapist who's books came out in the 80s; 'Thou Shalt Not Be Aware', 'The Drama of the Gifted Child'; about the effects of child abuse. Some very powerful and insightful stuff. She also refers to a book called 'The History of Childhood' by a (Lloyd de Mause?).... when you read passages from old German child rearing manuals it will make your hair stand on end. Miller also posits that it was this very abuse which helped shape Hitler into what he became.
If you're on this track and haven't already, I bet you'd really like reading these.
Let me know, I may have a few extra Millers around.