Yeah, I would have totally been into both the cool beetles and the interesting weeds. But I was also a bit tomboyish, not into actual sports but I liked playing with mud and bugs and preferred stuff like toy trucks and tokusatsu action figures and Lego to boring old dolls. ;)
My Mom was talking about this (in relation to Gojyo) and she as also saying how realistic it was that Gojyo totally blames himself, because that's hugely common with children of abuse.
Terribly so, yeah. This is why I have a recurring thing in my fics where Gojyo is very self-deprecating, downplaying his own problems and making excuses for his stepmother, when the subject comes up. This is a horribly common pattern with emotional abuse in particular, internalizing all the guilt, blaming yourself for your own victimization rather than the abusive parent, etc. And Jien, with that whole adultified-child situation, would so have that internalized caretaker role weighing him down with guilt whenever he can't fix and take care of everyone...
And the INFP thing is referring to Myers-Brigg personality types -- there's an ongoing discussion off thataway in cho's non-fic journal.
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Date: 2007-11-05 01:50 pm (UTC)My Mom was talking about this (in relation to Gojyo) and she as also saying how realistic it was that Gojyo totally blames himself, because that's hugely common with children of abuse.
Terribly so, yeah. This is why I have a recurring thing in my fics where Gojyo is very self-deprecating, downplaying his own problems and making excuses for his stepmother, when the subject comes up. This is a horribly common pattern with emotional abuse in particular, internalizing all the guilt, blaming yourself for your own victimization rather than the abusive parent, etc. And Jien, with that whole adultified-child situation, would so have that internalized caretaker role weighing him down with guilt whenever he can't fix and take care of everyone...
And the INFP thing is referring to Myers-Brigg personality types -- there's an ongoing discussion off thataway in cho's non-fic journal.