u/Mysterious-Pie-5

Has anyone had the kind of emotional neglect where you were rewarded to be very precocious and attention seeking?

Positive attention for it at home but treated as an obnoxious brat by peers, teachers, and everyone else. I didn't understand why I was bullied and ostracized for being the way my parents thought was hilarious and adorable.

I wanted so desperately to be liked and have friends but the way I was loved at home was by being very precocious and ridiculous.

Saying things that weren't age appropriate would get a huge laugh from my parents. So whatever age I was I wanted to be older and wiser than my peers.

And when I would complain to my mother about kids being mean and not liking me, she'd tell me they were jealous and that I'm hilarious. She didn't seem to care or understand that I needed friendship. And when I did make friends she was so critical of them and they were never good enough. But that's whole other topic.

Then when I was a teenager and became extremely rebellious it wasn't funny to her. But I was doing what I was taught was lovable, being obnoxious and precocious as a teenager is a dangerous thing but why did she think it was adorable as a child and pre-teen?

I also moved a few times suddenly based on career and divorce reasons, and that also contributed me to not learning how to integrate socially, staying precocious and obnoxious

Rewatching Mulholland Drive ;

Anyways, if director Adam Kesher is loosely based on David Lynch's experience as a director, who all do you think the shadowy executives of studios forced him to cast in his films in order for them to be green lit? Or other choices he was forced into or they'd threaten his financial backing?

Long story short, a month ago I discovered that my wife was having an affair with a coworker. Chaos ensued, we’re getting divorced, and we’ve been living separately.

My son (17m) has been absolutely furious with his mother. He’s been avoiding her for the most part, but she kept harassing him to spend time with her so he finally agreed to go over for dinner. Unbeknownst to our son, she decided now would be a good time to introduce him to her affair partner. I have no idea what compelled her to do this.

As you can imagine, shit hit the fan. My son got into his argument with his mother. Her shithead affair partner stuck his nose in and started arguing with my son because he called his mother a whore. Things continued to escalate until my son picked up a baseball bat and hit him in the face. Apparently his teeth are really fucked up.

How much legal trouble is my son in? What’s the most effective way I can help him?

Location: Florida