datendefekt

Played it for a few hours because it’s a Suda51 game. And because it’s a Suda51 game it’s style over substance and waaay over the top. But in this case they style wasn’t enough to engage me the whole way through.

Me too. Son’s dyslexic and I’m noticing a lot of ADHD traits in him. And it all reminds me a lot of how I was and it just explains a lot of the things in my life. Just got to get around to finding a therapist for him and me…

We lived in west Africa for a while and my parents adopted my sister there. Her biological mother was very young and couldn’t really cope, and my sister was neglected and malnourished to the extent that the doctors were convinced she would live with mental deficiencies.

Well, she turned out just wonderful, very bright and cheeky. But I have to admit that my parents blew it pretty bad. My mother was very naive about the whole thing and my father didn’t consider it his problem.

Of course, it was quite obvious that she was different. Heck, she herself noticed it as soon as she could talk. But my parents didn’t want to have The Talk with her, especially considering her situation before. They were extremely hush hush about it. Almost as if they were embarrassed, but they were just emotionally incabable.

As a teen, things got real bad. She met friends that were very racist and not good for her, and she would run away from home. It took her a while to sort out her identity, and that was not a nice time.

She was able to find her mother and sisters, and they are still in contact. She’s happily married with three kids, and they’ve moved over close to the in-laws. So everything turned out good in the end, despite my parents horrible parenting.

Moral of the story? Where I live, they say, little kids, little problems, big kids, big problems. So treat your kids with love and respect. Especially respect.