Lee_Art t1_j8vryfs wrote on February 17, 2023 at 8:17 AM

Reading this update from you and how Pamela says her young boy once was and who he became…I worry about your own son. Please keep him safe!

speedy_fish t1_j8w1pud wrote on February 17, 2023 at 10:31 AM

It's unclear... My impression was that the change in his personality was due to the head trauma (an actual predictor of violent crime in adults). You may be right though.

scarymaxx OP t1_j8wabcj wrote on February 17, 2023 at 12:15 PM

I want to believe Derek is safe but sometimes I just don’t know…

ObjectiveOne3868 t1_j8wubp4 wrote on February 17, 2023 at 2:58 PM

Watch for the starts of hostility. It wasn't until after the poor kid was beaten by his father that he became...damaged. The thing with that, it could've been brain damage. Or it even could've been effects of the event itself. He forgot his father existing, but the event still happened. His brain knows the event happened. It's trauma. There's just no longer a person to match to that trauma. He probably never went to see a therapist. His innocence was stripped away when he was just old enough to start really remembering.

ancientevilvorsoason t1_j8ybqxt wrote on February 17, 2023 at 8:42 PM

Yeah, I also think it was that, since nobody else changed, neither Caroline, nor Pamela nor our characters.

[deleted] t1_j8xae9d wrote on February 17, 2023 at 4:44 PM

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MacDoodle69 t1_j8yyx1m wrote on February 17, 2023 at 11:23 PM

I didn't think about that! It's so sadistic how the son in Pamela's story murdered his own sister - I honestly cannot believe that he could do that, first time or not (at least in his memory) Its so scary to think about the fact that she has a son... And a daughter... It's a horrific thought to put it lightly.