Forgetting Michael Jackson

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Jul 7, 2009 | 06:22 AM

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ajlafleche

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From: West Springfield MA

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Originally Posted by tof,Jul 7 2009, 08:27 AM

I suspect the self-loathing that stunted his emotional maturation and drove him to cosmetic extremes has its roots in his treatment by his Dad and maybe others. I figure he was told so often how ugly and worthless and shiftless he was that he never really had a chance to be normal, especially when burdened with the intoxicating cocktail of fame and wealth.

Sorry, but having a tough childhood doesn't mean you get a free pass. If so, I want mine. Here are just a few examples: my mother in my room when I was under 7 years old and my brotherhad just been born telling me if she got pregnant again, she'd kill it. This would have been 1956. Her bragging about bad weeds growing fast when refering to me. Going to school in December wearing a light summer jacket and shoes with holes in them. Living uopstairs from a cheap bar and on several occasions seeing blood trails on the sidewalk from the fights. Being a latchkey kid before there was a name for it. Coming home one night to a street full of "Staties" because there was a guy stabbed to death in the bar across the street and having previously watched the owner of that bar shoot a patron in his car. Thinking it was completely normal to have your father drinking several quarts of beer before leaving for work at 1:30 pm and to be a 12 year old going downstairs to the bar to buy those quarts of Black Label. Being targetted by the local toughs and beat up...just because. I could go on. Somehow I managed to survive without taking little boys into my bed and resahping my face to something that barely even looks human.