Pas: Really, I can’t take the credit for picking up skills fast. It’s just a habit I got into — and it was my father who gave me all the motivation.
Violet: Yeah?
Pas: Oh, yes!
Papa had a bit of a temper, you see. My older sibling, Dexie, was always getting on his bad side . . .
But he’d put Dexie down right away if I wanted to show him something I’d learned! It made him so proud.
Of course, it wouldn’t hold his interest for as long if I tried the same thing twice, so I had to keep advancing . . . But, gosh, you both have dads, right? You know how they are.
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…Well boss, you weren’t kidding when you told us we’d get a storyline about the Zikos family.
Wow, that is messed up. Coming from an abusive home, we get this desire to normalize it, but abuse is never okay.
Well, there’s having a desire to normalize abuse and there’s not realizing that was abuse. Looks to me like this could be either one.
And it sounds like Pas was the favored child, so it’s much harder to recognize abuse as the favored child.
Or she knows it WAS abuse, and is phrasing it this way because it’s the only way she can tell others and still look herself in the mirror for not getting Dexie (and to a lesser extent herself) out sooner.
Either one, we certainly can relate to not realizing something was abuse also. It took years to realize that some of it was abuse.
Oh, Pas… PLEASE be gallow-humor coping please.
The present tense at the end is concerning
“Look papa what I learned today! Sleeper hold!”
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