In Silence; a Dysfunctional Family's effect on the Children
February 3rd 2012 00:31
He comes into the office and may say hello in a warm way or pass as if you don't exist. He doesn't speak. On the phone, to a stranger, he's loquacious. And once and awhile he'll actually have a monologue with you.
Most times he wants silence, and one learns to speak only when spoken at, because he doesn't speak to anyone.
He has fathered a large number of children for different women and is on his third wife. She was half his age when they married and has aged bad. This is because unlike wife one and two she didn't divorce him. She has put up with his behaviour to the extent that her life is where he is not.
Their children are very strange. They are silent. They are as close to zombies as one can get this side of the screen. They can sit in a car and drive for thirty minutes and not one speaks. Not to him, not to each other.
When he is not there the behaviour remains. They don't talk to each other. And if one needs to speak to another, there is no eye contact, no interest.
The children outside of this unit are normal. They can talk, ask questions, joke, there is nothing odd about them.
Only one of the children in that Unit seems to be exempt. He talks, although he gets no answers or responses. He has ideas and dreams and is outgoing.
Somehow this one out the six has recognised that he is in a dysfunctional family and will not let it destroy him.
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