valle12tom
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It is getting colder here today and very cloudy as well. Someone said we are having a big snow storm headed our way. I haven't checked the local weather to see if that is true or not. People love to talk about the weather don't they? I sometimes think if we didn't have the weather to talk about what would we talk about???
LOL!
In my Movie Thread I reviewed the movie Camp today. I really liked that film and it made me think all night and this AM about my life and what it might have been if I had been encouraged in the direction of the arts instead of being actively discouraged by my parents.
I have felt the scars of their abuse in that manner for all these years. I was always told "you have no talent Tommy" or "you can't sing Tommy" or "you can't act Tommy" or "you are fat Tommy" or "you aren't good looking enough to act Tommy" etc etc. on and on. It was a terrible thing to do to a child. It was a form of child abuse.
I certainly had the physical and verbal abuse as well but this was a mental abuse of the worst kind because it limited me in so many ways. I bought their whole thing and just stopped trying. To make a kid stop trying was criminal because then I spent so much time wanting what I couldn't have.
That sort of has me in a funk today. I look at the kids in the movie who are so talented and I think that could have been me.
Oh well. Enough of the pity party.
peace to all
In my Movie Thread I reviewed the movie Camp today. I really liked that film and it made me think all night and this AM about my life and what it might have been if I had been encouraged in the direction of the arts instead of being actively discouraged by my parents.
I have felt the scars of their abuse in that manner for all these years. I was always told "you have no talent Tommy" or "you can't sing Tommy" or "you can't act Tommy" or "you are fat Tommy" or "you aren't good looking enough to act Tommy" etc etc. on and on. It was a terrible thing to do to a child. It was a form of child abuse.
I certainly had the physical and verbal abuse as well but this was a mental abuse of the worst kind because it limited me in so many ways. I bought their whole thing and just stopped trying. To make a kid stop trying was criminal because then I spent so much time wanting what I couldn't have.
That sort of has me in a funk today. I look at the kids in the movie who are so talented and I think that could have been me.
Oh well. Enough of the pity party.
peace to all


















