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True.
Bowser — (archived)

Had a patient one time. Ph. D. in Psychology, and a very high administrator in a large, wealthy local school system. A very smooth, urbane man with many interests, he had been a well-loved teacher and principal and then moved up.

Couldn't remember anything before the age of 15. Nothing. No schools, friends, birthdays. He does remember some horrific experiences after 15 until he could get out away from his family of origin.

Interviewed some members of his family, some of the older siblings and a cousin. "Childhood" for this guy had been a nightmare, never-ending. The cousin told of this guy's father hiding behind the door when he came home from school, second grade, and beating the guy over the head when he came in. Knocked him out, left him laying. That sort of thing.

Mercifully, the fellow doesn't remember any of it. Does remember not being sad when his mother died when he was 17. He neither knows or cares what happened to his father, who just disappeared along the way. Doesn't remember Dad at all.

The mind protects itself in many, many ways. Look at the lengths some people can go to avoid believing they may have been wrong.

Arf

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