--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: <snip> > I've often said this. It's horrible to have to say such > things online, but when such persons target email lists > with little or no moderation, everyone on the list suffers. > > I knew a person, a recently deceased friend, who was a > borderline. He was the scorn of his entire family. If you > said something he didn't like, you'd either get a screaming > phone call, or even worse, a personal visit. He also knew > how to text message quite fast. Most people who knew him > closely knew of his severe childhood abuse, both physical > and sexual, and so would let him slide. All others either > spurned him or gave him very wide berth.
You really think Barry might have been physically and sexually abused as a child? I've often wondered. *Something* must have gone badly wrong.