Posted by bookgurl99 on February 10, 2003, at 0:21:57
In reply to What is Michael Jackson's diagnosis?, posted by Tabitha on February 7, 2003, at 1:55:22
"Blind spots" is the right phrase. I'd donate my therapy time for him.
I think that M.J. has the unfortunate habit, as many of us do, of literally not looking at himself. It is not even that he 'masks' himself with masks or face-changing, but that even in his emotional life, he lies to himself about what he is truly feeling/experiencing.
It is a highly disassociative tendency that I could only see as the result of supressing what he needed for himself over and over as a child.
The down side for MJ in this is that this need, unexamined, has caused him to have an unhealthy home life. I imagine that his friends still treat him as a child, and that he views himself as such in relationship to others.
I fear it will be hard for MJ and his children when they reach adolescence, the point that MJ was not able to cross. Perhaps the confrontation will be positive, and watching them grow will help to ferry MJ across the divide to adulthood that he has avoided, fearfully, for so long.
p.s. my partner is convinced that he's castrated, but i believe that he has worked to preserve the unchanged preadolescent voice. He speaks in an even higher pitch than a MTF transsexual.
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