“Let me guess: your mother was probably reasonably bright but frustrated, academically and intellectually. She wasn’t achieving what she’d hoped.” I agreed. “And your father was likely a professional sort, highly skilled and demanding.” “Right.” “And there was a tremendous amount of discord.” “How did you know?” I asked him. “It’s not an infrequent story,” he said. My mom had once told me that a doctor at Children’s Hospital had written a case study of me, and, though there is no published evidence of this, for a second I wondered if this text existed after all. I felt a little deflated upon
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This reductionist notion that some pathologies can be so textbook, especially compared to Laura's story where she changed her life to better match the stated pathology. Is one necessarily more right?
