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JHB

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2. That's a "the Chicken or the Egg" question
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 07:26 AM
Jul 2020

There was definitely something wrong with him from the get-go. Other people grow up in environments like that (his siblings, for instance) and don't turn into an abyss.

Whether counseling or a different environment would have made enough difference to compensate for those deficiencies, instead of exacerbating them like what actually happened, is unknowable. And it's possible that it wouldn't have made him better, just more adept at hiding it.

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