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Originally Posted by GAH
I've made it to him being 16 and I am not enjoying reading his story. When you hear that Rodger had seen therapists off and on since he was nine years old and they decided he possessed "an underlying sadness", that is not my conclusion with his first sixteen years. I can't believe how he has gone through his life so far, at 16, extracting hatred out of every little thing that didn't go his way and totally unappreciative of the privileged upbringing he has had. His parent's answer to everything so far is to buy him yet another computer game, toys, the fastest computer, a skateboard, or present him with more playmates to agitate and feed his obvious anger to human life.
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Kid was fucked up from the start, did you notice how many times he says he cried? Every other day of his life he's breaking down in tears, often in front of relatives or friends. That ain't normal.
Nothing about the kid was normal, he seems like an alien. What 22 year old guy describes their dinner meal as 'exquisite' and refers to big jocks as 'brutes'?
Divorce of his parents sure didn't help though, it's incredible how many different homes and schools he moved in and out of. He was bought a lot of things but for an upper middle class kid it didn't seem that he was given any more than other kids. The trips abroad, often flying first class, the parties at rich friends of the family etc - that's where he got this elitist expectations from. I think his family was less affluent than those around him - some of the places he lived with his mother were very ordinary.